The Trump administration canceled $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, which partners with scientists and education companies to compile and make public data about schools each year.
Assuming we don’t end up with an actual authoritarian government, which is definitely on the table, we’re going to spend the rest of our lives watching our system be rebuilt after this, instead of getting actual progress. Just rebuilding. Because traitorous Republicans will continue to obstruct.
That’s what Trump supporting dipshits have really done to this country. Set our progress back an entire generation. Which will allow other countries to replace us as world leaders.
We will not see the level of American influence we’ve always known again in our lifetimes.
Can’t be last in first world education stats if you don’t track them
The US has had a department of education since 1979. If it were worth it’s 80B dollar budget, we’d have better academic outcomes. Their budget works out to $26,000 per year for every public school teacher. Dismantle it, pay teachers well and let them decide how best to educate their pupils.
Make Americans Dumb Again
Make Americans Dumber
AgainHonestly hard to imagine them being any dumber
Hold my beer.
Americans, Still Dumb.
Imagine being the richest person in history and going full Nazi instead of doing literally anything else with your billions.
If you ever needed proof that wealth and ease of life doesn’t equate to happiness or satisfaction with yourself…
Right?
Imagine what positive progress you could bring about with that kind of wealth and how cemented your name could become as a historical legendary figure. Instead we got a petulant man-child who thinks being a Nazi is edgy. What a shit reality.
I just honestly cannot comprehend what the end game is at this point… like, how does this even benefit anyone at all?
It benefits wealthy oligarchs.
Someone get me a blue shell. angry_luigi.jpg
I just can’t see how an incompetent (and thereby less productive) populace benefits the oligarchs, other than the whole thing about wanting people to be easier to manipulate.
I mean, if the country has fewer competent people, businesses relying on competence will eventually start hurting. That obviously includes these people’s companies, which are the source of their all-important wealth.
My guess is because we’re at the capitalism end game. Wealth inequality is to high, to have a functioning capitalistic society money needs to flow, and its not.
So now they want to extract the last amount of wealth before everything falls apart in the hope of owning whatever arises from the ashes.
I hate how people think Elon isn’t happy. He’s probably having the time of his life. Imagine owning the government because some retard with an orange peel for skin addiction just gave you full control over the budget.
Edit: in a system where the economy is tied down to everything
I hate how people think Elon isn’t happy. He’s probably having the time of his life.
I don’t think so. Did you see how he joined that chat room with a voice changer to talk about how good of a guy he was? That’s not something a regular, happy person does.
This is domestic terrorism.
Lol. I hate how much this is like 1984 because I dislike people using it as an example all of the time. But between this and the “America First” shit, wherein tariffs are being levied against everyone, the logical conclusion is that Trump wants to close down the US, go self-reliant, and have citizens be too placated by propaganda to do anything about it.
However, this is a shitty idea and it won’t go to plan, so he’ll just end up with stupid people who can’t even work the factories needed to not have this culminate in a mass economic disaster. Anyone smart enough to care should leave the country ASAP because it won’t get better. Other countries should be revamping their refugee programs to benefit from the brain drain.
the logical conclusion is that Trump wants to close down the US, go self-reliant, and have citizens be too placated by propaganda to do anything about it.
Bingo.
Except replace Trump with his enablers. That shitstain excuse for a man is nowhere near intelligent enough for a long term agenda. Nor will he live long enough to enact any long term agenda. More intelligent and nefarious actors are placating his endless narcissism by letting him do things like rename Gulfs while they get him to sign what they’ve drawn up, which is the outline for making the U.S. an isolationist nation of easily controlled simpletons that act as their servants.
We’re passing 1984 and moving into Idiocracy territory.
Cyberpunk X Idiorcracy mashup.
every country is either out of reach financially, or also swerving far right, or just doesn’t want americans. or all the above
Because ‘anyone smart enough’ has a bank account that would allow this and is able to jump the immigration hurdles set up by countries
It takes effort
It’s okay, as long as they’re taught about Jesus and how to type prompts into an LLM’s text box, what else do they need to learn?
Don’t even have to type or even talk, just install a neurolink and interface with the LLM directly via your thoughts
Just ignore that massive infection.
New rules for homeschooling include mandatory 10 minute hate against the enemy of the day, pledge of allegiance to a photo of Trump, and a once a year field trip to throw rotten tomatoes at homeless people.
Should also be a visit to a cemetery to get a photo at a soldier’s grave, and while there also disparage said soldiers as “suckers”. Learn to commit white color crimes, which of course aren’t crimes at all if your white/wealthy, and should be called out as “political witch hunts”. And the most important item of all, is to learn to “deny everything!”.
Bro, been trying to commit white color crimes but it’s crazy dangerous, only white people are getting away with it.
Once a year?
The rest of the time, it’s an elective. Some kids opt to eat the rotten tomatoes because there’s no more free school lunches.
I don’t like Musk, but this is good. School performance tracking is voodoo math. Everyone knows that good schools are in good neighborhoods and bad schools are in bad neighborhoods. You don’t need $900,000,000 in research, and the yearly publication of random lists. This just hurts individual teachers.
Do you work in an industry that deals with the data they collect and report? If not, then your opinion is even less useful here than Musk’s
Don’t live in an political bubble. For years lefty teachers fought rankings, standardized testing, and the standardized testing industry. It doesn’t help schools, or teachers. Don’t be a knee-jerk reactionary, automatically saying that everything Musk does is wrong is counterproductive.
Don’t be a knee-jerk reactionary
From the guy using the term “lefty”. I don’t say “righty” when I want to be taken seriously.
What was being done with the data was the problem, not the data gathering itself. All this means is that the data won’t exist. The underlying problems still will. Not a single thing you’ve said justifies the action you’re trying to justify.
No, you’re pointing to the silver lining on a bad decision.
Gathering the the data isn’t the problem. The data is supposed to lead to more funding where it’s needed…but the same group killing the research is also very very very against funding education. It’s only a useless endeavor because they make sure it’s useless.
Keep the studies but address the problems it reveals.
I’m not sure keeping the studies is such a great thing either. A big chunk of it is standardized testing, and it would be really nice to have far less of that in schools. Granted, this will not address the problem of standardized testing.
Deployed the smoke grenade
Not tracking school performance is clearly going to help establish a merit-based society. Because as we all know, the best way to determine merit is by not measuring it.
