What are your thoughts on the restructuring of the Department of Education?

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, please read this. Please be kind to each other in the comments, this is a safe space for the sharing of thoughts.

https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-afpi-tpusa-hillsdale-college-and-over-40-national-and-state-organizations-launch-america-250-civics-coalition#:~:text=Home-,U.S

Personally, I find this quite terrifying. I don’t enjoy the idea of children being presented skewed/biased information. The plan is to essentially water down/erase facts about U.S. History, and teaching kids about being “patriotic”. It seems more like indoctrination than anything. From what I have gathered from this, they plan on forcing religion and private organizations into the public school systems on a national level. Government endorsed religion is unconstitutional. It breaks our first amendment rights. The fact that this is all happening and nobody has tried to protest/fight this is insane.

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GerOttman · 70-79, M

Hmm... I don’t see anything about math, reading, science listed among your concerns! Odd..

You do seem concerned about history. Historically public education has focused heavily on indoctrination. Current state indoctrination appears to focus on why white people are bad, why math proficiency is racist, and why boys and girls should be girls and boys. There also appears to be a cult like narrative that anyone with enough sense to reject these philosophies is degenerate, not fully human, and deserving of death!

In any event, eliminating the DOE will save money simply by eliminating the middle man and result in a better educational environment by returning control to the local level where it can be more effective and efficient.

Waffles · 100+

I only mentioned Civics & History because that was the topic of the press release.

As someone who just recently left the public education system, my peers nor I have felt that history was teaching us that “white people are bad”. There is no country on this planet that does not have skeletons in their closets. History for many is brutal, shameful and ugly. Future generations need to know that as well.

As for your other topics mentioned, although I have strongly opposing opinions on those, they aren’t relevant to this current conversation.

I don’t believe the Department of Education should be eliminated. It should have been restructured towards STEM/STEAM education. We should be pouring into our youth instead of stripping them down.

@GerOttman