“The planned order follows years of campaign promises from President Donald Trump to abolish the department — something he cannot do without congressional approval.”

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    Becky Pringle, the president of the National Education Association, a major labor group, warned in a statement Tuesday that Trump’s coming order would hurt students and families, especially in vulnerable populations.

    Team Trump: SWEET! That’s the idea! They finally get it!

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      They are saying they are pushing an ideology and indoctrinating kids… the right is so unbelievably fucked in the brain and i honestly have no idea how to unfuck their brains on such a massive scale.

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          For me, it wasnt even the education of college. It was being in the dorm and around ao many different people. Finally being around people different than me taught me so much so fast

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      An uneducated public is much easier to control. Especially when youtube and tiktok keep them brainwashed.

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    This is so terrible for so many reasons. One of which is this is the department that supports children with disabilities, including early intervention services. It is super wrong to pick on our most vulnerable members of society, simply because they cannot defend themselves. They should be ashamed (although, to be fair, I’m not sure they are capable of it).

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      It is super wrong to pick on our most vulnerable members of society

      If not this, then upon what shall they base their policies?

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    The summer before 9/11, I started a tech support job at an educational publisher. I’m still here as a Level 4 tech because it’s a very stable, secure job. If the DoE is eliminated, I have no idea what happens to my job now or in the future, so I’m terrified. Most of the tech knowledge I had 24 years ago has been replaced with institutional knowledge that isn’t transferable. Plus, I’m 51, which is a rough age to start looking for new tech jobs.

    I’m so angry with my country that we’ve come to this.

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    I am so glad that I went hopelessly into debt and sold my body for a degree for a job they don’t want to exist anymore. Fuck me for being passionate about math and science, wanting to teach and inspire children. It’s wonderful that the lifelong PTSD from sex work ended up being worth nothing.

    No, I’m a fucking tranny. No trannies allowed. No DOE means my state is going to end public education. They’ve already been working on it. Online charters for the poors, real education for the wealthy.

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      Please try to come up with an exit strategy. This country is inches from an all-out trans genocide. The world needs people like you.

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          Everyone’s path will differ. For them I’d start by getting set up as a remote tutor so that they can keep earning wherever they are. Then start checking which countries are most in demand of teachers, and whether their immigration systems would look favourably on someone with that skillset. New Zealand, Australia, and Germany might be places to start.

          My path was a little more straightforward, as a UK dual citizen; I’ve only had to pay huge immigration fees for my family, somehow keep my US job working remotely, and work like mad to put my wife through university for a new job. My last step will be to find a more meaningful job based locally so I can get my hands on those lovely bank hols…

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    From They Thought They Were Free, the Germans 1933-45:

    Because the mass movement of Nazism was nonintellectual in the beginning, when it was only practice, it had to be anti-intellectual before it could be theoretical. What Mussolini’s official philosopher, Giovanni Gentile, said of Fascism could have been better said of Nazi theory: “We think with our blood.” Expertness in thinking, exemplified by the professor, by the high-school teacher, and even by the grammar-school teacher in the village, had to deny the Nazi views of history, economics, literature, art, philosophy, politics, biology, and education itself.

    Thus Nazism, as it proceeded from practice to theory, had to deny expertness in thinking and then (this second process was never completed), in order to fill the vacuum, had to establish expert thinking of its own—that is, to find men of inferior or irresponsible caliber whose views conformed dishonestly or, worse yet, honestly to the Party line. The nonpolitical pastor satisfied Nazi requirements by being nonpolitical. But the nonpolitical schoolmaster was, by the very virtue of being nonpolitical, a dangerous man from the first. He himself would not rebel, nor would he, if he could help it, teach rebellion; but he could not help being dangerous—not if he went on teaching what was true. In order to be a theory and not just a practice, National Socialism required the destruction of academic independence.

    In the years of its rise the movement little by little brought the community’s attitude toward the teacher around from respect and envy to resentment, from trust and fear to suspicion. The development seems to have been inherent; it needed no planning and had none. As the Nazi emphasis on nonintellectual virtues (patriotism, loyalty, duty, purity, labor, simplicity, “blood,” “folk-ishness”) seeped through Germany, elevating the self-esteem of the “little man,” the academic profession was pushed from the very center to the very periphery of society. Germany was preparing to cut its own head off. By 1933 at least five of my ten friends (and I think six or seven) looked upon “intellectuals” as unreliable and, among these unreliables, upon the academics as the most insidiously situated.

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    If they dissolve the DoE I will be stopping payment on my student loans. They won’t get another cent. Everyone should do the same. What will they do? Can’t jail us all and suing everyone will take centuries to process.

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      Oh, they won’t let you do that! They’ll transfer Fannie May and Freddie Mac to another department and go after people even harder.

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    I know it won’t happen, sadly, because nobody would let Trump dissolve the thing that holds our federal student loans.