Systems of education and its discontents

[danimagoo]

Trump himself has repeatedly promised to eliminate the Department of Education. As he promised in 2016. Reagan also promised to eliminate it, and it was just created the year before he took office. I’m not sure if either Bush promised to do that, but it wouldn’t surprise me. The problem they always run into is that the President cannot eliminate an executive department. Only Congress can do that, because it’s Congress who creates them.

[Kii]

Have you been watching progressive content that is criticizing any of the MAGA BS? My spouse watches a lot of videos discussing toxic masculinity but still gets recommended videos that are praising Jordan Peterson and such. He thinks it’s to tempt him into rage-watching the right wing content

[danimagoo]

Umm…some, but nothing more lately than normal. Actually, since the election, I’ve been trying to avoid political content at all because I just can’t right now.

[ficuswhisperer]

Cross-posting

Heather Cox Richardson's "Letters from an American"

November 16, 2024 (Saturday) One of President-elect Trump’s campaign pledges was to eliminate the Department of Education. He claimed that the department pushes “woke” ideology on America’s schoolchildren and that its employees “hate our children.” He promised to “return” education to the states. In fact, the Department of Education does not set curriculum; states and local governments do. The Department of Education collects statistics about schools to monitor student performance and promote …

[ficuswhisperer]

@danimagoo

Only Congress can do that, because it’s Congress who creates them.

With a trifecta it can certainly be done. I am guessing there’s also nothing stopping an education Secretary from using any funding to do nothing more than pay for vouchers or some other bullshit.

I’m holding out some hope that R’s in congress aren’t so short sighted to see how zeroing out funding for education hurts their constituents and how for red state R’s that most of that education money comes from blue states. I have a feeling defunding public education in their state or paying for it through increased state taxes won’t be popular.

As fucked as things are looking, nothing would surprise me in this day and age.

[Wayward]

@danimagoo

ton of right wing content

LinkedIn suggested I follow Jordan Peterson and Vivek Ramaswamy this past week FFS
There is nothing in my minimalist profile that would suggest any overlap.

@danimagoo

I really don’t want to start buying into conspiracy theories, but I can’t think of any reason why this content would show up in my recommendations

Same

[danimagoo]

@ficuswhisperer

I have a feeling defunding public education in their state or paying for it through increased state taxes won’t be popular.

When Sam Brownback was governor of Kansas, he gutted public education in the state, along with a lot of other public programs. He basically went full austerity. Today, Kansas has a Democratic governor and overwhelmingly voted to protect abortion last year. These things are not unconnected. The results of Brownback’s governance proved enormously unpopular. This is my hope. That the same will happen now on a national scale. But the right wing propaganda machine is a lot stronger than it was even 4 years ago.

[Purplecat]

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars

[chgoliz]

Admissions to Humanities and Social Science PhD Programs Suspended at Boston...

[mindysan33]

I know someone who did their undergrad there (though he’s a science guy)…

They’re gonna bring in more adjuncts to teach those classes, so that won’t be an issue, for the short term.