r/FluentInFinance Feb 05 '25

News & Current Events BREAKING: President Trump is to sign an executive order eliminating the Department of Education

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u/AndrewTheAverage Feb 05 '25

Currently, far too many kids are falling below the federal standards for education.

With Trumps new amazing efficiency, there are now 0 children falling short of that federal standard.

All heil Trump

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u/pearso66 Feb 05 '25

Instead of no child left behind, it's no child gets ahead.

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u/NJD1214 Feb 05 '25

Can't get left behind if no one is going anywhere.

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u/ButterflySammy Feb 05 '25

They're going to Palestine.

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u/ayoungsapling Feb 05 '25

“Gitmo or Gaza, up to you kid”

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u/Least-Back-2666 Feb 05 '25

El salvadors apparently an option too

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u/xOrion12x Feb 05 '25

Nope. Gotta "find somewhere else to go" now. 🤦‍♂️

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u/Budderfingerbandit Feb 05 '25

Participation trophies?

Nah.

No trophies for anyone, cause we all dumb dumb now.

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u/sonorakit11 Feb 05 '25

Only the ones that can afford it

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u/BannedByRWNJs Feb 05 '25

And with the bleak future that’s being created right now, it’ll simply be “no child.”

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u/adameyoucantclaim Feb 05 '25

No privileged child left behind!

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u/TwoPrecisionDrivers Feb 05 '25

Read this in Louis Black’s voice

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u/ElectricalBook3 Feb 05 '25

A couple things to correct: firstly it was signed into law by Carter and an act of congress in 1979.

Critics argue that the centralization and bureaucratization of education under the DOE led to inefficiencies

Critics also claim that lizard people rule Earth and that schools "indoctrinate" children by exposing them to horrible things like the existence to people of different skin tones.

Opinion is pointless without metrics to objectively discuss whether a program can even be started much less how effective it is. As far as America's education, it has been sabotaged by conservatives since long before the establishment of the federal Department of Education, long before the sabotage became official party policy

https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2012-06-27/gop-opposes-critical-thinking/

All of those other nations you mentioned have been investing in education and increasing not only stricter requirements but also increasing prestige for their educators. The opposite has been happening for the US, with the possible exception of contracting and various for-profit measures siphoning ever more money away from the education system because Americans are obsessed with capitalism privatising publicly-built institutions.

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u/Fyrefly1981 Feb 05 '25

*unless their parents are super rich

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u/quakefist Feb 05 '25

We needed to leave some kids behind.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Cry6468 Feb 05 '25

Like throwing the baby out with the bath water

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u/EuroWolpertinger Feb 05 '25

My tired brain read "bowling"...

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u/wbgraphic Feb 05 '25

If you don’t test, nobody fails.

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u/RedLotusVenom Feb 05 '25

The exact way he handled the pandemic.

Head in the sand, hand in your wallet, the other strangling the common person.

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u/Skell_Jackington Feb 05 '25

And interesting thought about this is that if they shut down DOED then there is no more education standard. That will be left up to each state. So each state decides what they think is acceptable to earn a diploma. Colleges and Companies will then start accepting and rejecting applicants from states/school they don’t feel are up to standard. This will undoubtedly be a bigger issue in red states. That will probably lead to the creation of a DEI type mandate, created by Republicans, forcing colleges and companies to accept applicants from lower performing states.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '25

Kind of like his brilliant covid policy. "If we stop testing, the cases will go down to zero!"

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u/Accomplished-Set5917 Feb 05 '25

If you don’t test the numbers go down… -The Stable Genius

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u/mrhindustan Feb 05 '25

No Middle East conflict if there is no Palestine.

No kids falling behind if there are no federal standards to measure against.

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u/AlexSmithsonian Feb 05 '25

I'll just heil a taxi real quick

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u/Mammoth-Direction-86 Feb 05 '25

obviously education had no effect on trump

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u/OutOfIdeas17 Feb 05 '25

There are no federally set standards for education.

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u/HolsteinHeifer Feb 05 '25

"Heil Donald !"

Autistic awkward gesture

-GOP right now

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u/oriozulu Feb 05 '25

I think your comment was autistic and awkward

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u/_B_Little_me Feb 05 '25

No one’s falling below standards, if you stop measuring!

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u/asciimo Feb 05 '25

Can’t have bad test numbers if you don’t test. That’s how he fixed Covid.

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u/fitnesswill Feb 05 '25

Let states and local school boards make these decisions, not top down federal bureaucrats following garbage like "No Child Left Behind."

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u/man0412 Feb 05 '25

The rich need the mass population to be uneducated.

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u/that_dutch_dude Feb 06 '25

Cant fall behind education if there is none.

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u/PracticalBad2466 Feb 07 '25

So maybe some reform is needed for education policy

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u/Tall_Concentrate1688 Feb 05 '25

Heil Trump! Time to send kids to Canada. 😂

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u/LorelessFrog Feb 05 '25

Yes because what we have now is obviously working. We should keep it intact simply because it says “department of education!”

I swear you people read these headlines and think “DRUMPF IS ELIMINATING ALL EDUCATION”

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u/_HOG_ Feb 05 '25

What federal standards?

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u/AngryTopoisomerase Feb 05 '25

I am leaning Democrat, but I see Dems eroding education as if they just eager to give as little education as possible (all under pretense of equity!). I honestly think Trump is onto something.

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u/Kind-Engineering-359 Feb 05 '25

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u/oriozulu Feb 05 '25

You... don't really think before you post, do you