"I love the poorly educated"- Trump, 2016
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I worry people already don't know the difference between multiplying and adding bureaucracy.
Oh the irony
Because everyone knows removing the standards suddenly makes people follow them...
2+2=4 in every state in the country. AEIOU and sometimes Y are the vowels in every state in this country. We don't need 50 states providing 50 different interpretations of basic educational facts.
The educational curriculum in this country should be organized and managed by the Federal government, and the states' only job should be to implement it. All Americans should receive the same basic comprehensive education, and states shouldn't be able to customize it to their "values." Nobody is interested in Alabama's unique take on American History.
Eh, conversely if California decides to teach something progressive should the federal government be able to restrict that? States can also mitigate shitty federal programs.
I don’t think the federal standards ever restricted anything additive. It was always more like minimum standards and equal opportunity. Even with standardized tests, you’re just setting minimum standards. It’s only a problem if you don’t teach those.
So Oklahoma teaching white power will fail to meet minimum standards or equal opportunity, but California adding climate change education is just better education
No, the curriculum should be decided by a panel of experts in their respective fields, and politicians should be absolutely barred from participating in the process at all. They don't get to manipulate the minds of our youngest generations for their own nefarious objectives.
If California can start altering the Federally mandated curriculum because THEY decided it needed it, then so can some shithole state like Alabama or Mississippi. And besides, who are THEY that are making these educational decisions? I will put my confidence in a well chosen panel of scholarly academic experts before I'll let 6th grade educated school board member Bubba Redneck decide what my kids need to learn.
No, states will not be allowed to create their own agendas. They will teach the horrors of slavery, the Native American genocide, the Holocaust, Critical Thinking Skills, the dangers of Political Extremism, how to defend Democracy against domestic terrorists, the crimes of the Trump Administrations, etc , and anyone who doesn't like it, can simply fuck right off. Nobody is asking for their bigoted, ignorant input on what future American citizens need to learn.
Best we can do is ask grok for a curriculum, let Elon edit its response, then pass it by a panel of lobbyists and the last koch brother
The unintelligent are easily led. This truth is painfully evident within the manner in which he was able to find himself elected-
TWICE.
Anything the Republicans touch is just to make it worse so they can instill unregulated private industry which will do a garbage job and serve profits
Their plans for education in project 2025 are terrible. They want to set up education saving funds instead of funding public ed. People will have to start shopping for an education. Imagine the bloat and costs of colleges but now for preschools.
Yep, this is what they want. All cost of college but for an extra 12 years.
Florida is all in
Just get rid of the elitism/nepotism at a lot of universities and subsidize/eliminate the cost for a basic 2-yr degree.
Wow so ez