DavriellelounaPeople in Alabama, voted for Trump to get rid of the US Department of Education. Now, they fear losing funding. "Please don't take away our Federal funding. We can't function without it"
A_norny_mousseAh, a classic đđ
All part of the plan. Slash education funding, churn out more ignorant retards to vote Republican. This is their idea of winning.
I mean yeah but Iâm kind of getting sick of the leopards eating peopleâs faces. It was kind of cathartic at first because of the irony but itâs still leopards eating peopleâs faces. Sooner or later itâs going to be my face and I voted for no leopards eating anyoneâs face let alone mine.
many of the communities that rely most heavily on federal dollars are in Republican-led states, which tend to spend less on education and often have higher child poverty rates.
Sounds like socialism, which Republicans hate. Good on them for sticking by their principles! ... Oh, wait ...
âWe donât have a problem with the federal Department of Education being dissolved,â said Dr. Willingham, a Republican. âWe have a problem with funding being taken from our children.â
So you want the money with no oversight? Didn't you guys just take a chainsaw to the federal government because of "waste and fraud"? How do you think money without oversight is going to work out?
So you want the money with no oversight? Didnât you guys just take a chainsaw to the federal government because of âwaste and fraudâ? How do you think money without oversight is going to work out?
Think? No, they reacted. Thinking hard.
Banzai51Easier to steal the money that way and/or funnel it into bible study in a public school, of course thatâs what they want.
If only there were a popular childrenâs story that could have warned them against dismantling a resource-providing system in an attempt to acquire more resource
Perhaps if there were an allegorical story about how you shouldnât trust politicians delivered the by the politician in question, maybe they would have understood then
An interesting fact about this particular issue is the lack of Republican support (as it stands): www.edweek.org/policy-politics/âŚ/07
Maybe I'm still just waiting for the morning caffeine to hit, but I don't think that first sentence has any business using a comma.
waldenYou are, correct.
"Correct, you are."
- Dave Yoda
You, are correct.
And the children are the ones who will suffer the most
pressedhamsSuffering is the point! And then they have more undereducated fodder for the capitalist machine!
âPro life until birthâ
I thought only like 8% of school funding most places was federal
As a nationwide average, yes. Rural schools tend to depend on it more than city schools. Students are more spread apart, and they donât have a large property tax base.
Plus, even an 8% cut would hurt a lot when theyâve already been squeezed the last few years.
Closer to like ~20%, most of the funding goes to programs that help students that donât have rich parents. Like reduced lunches, help with special staff to help students with learning issues, etc.
Federal funding for schools isnât this crazy shit MAGA talks about. It helps with paying teachers, staff, student programs, etc. Itâs not lining the pockets of anybody. Just assisting public education.
âI love the poorly educatedâ- Trump, 2016
The big problem/benefit of federal school funding is it tends to come with strings. Woke stuff like accessibility, special needs, girls sports, accreditation.
Most of us see this as a huge benefit, setting some minimum standards for public education. Magats may not
Can the US already just split?
Red states can be the United States of America, a third world shit hole country that canât even feed its own citizens, rampant poverty and all of it based on racism and extremist religion
Blue states can make a new Country, FFS call it something not too âbraggyâ as Americans tend to do. This country can become one of the wealthiest counties in the world with great education, great freehealthcare, everyone being taken care of through extensive social safety nets. Also it would have all the nukes because nobody wants a religious end time cult with nukes.
I seriously donât see how this sad excuse of a country can continue like this.
Itâs unfortunately not that simple. The bulk of Americaâs farmland is in red states, so blue states on their own wouldnât be able to feed their populations. Plus, red states tend not to have the biggest trade cities in the country, so theyâd be choked in trade on their own. Also, all states break down into blue and red counties. Basically, if youâre a rural county, you tend to be red, and if youâre an urban or sub-urban county, you tend to be blue. So, even red states have plenty of democrats in them and vice versa.
It worked out so well for the BalkansâŚ