Most of what makes MAGA hate the Dept of Education is rooted in lies about what they do

[DANC]

Also, that relevant law has implementing regulations. That law requires those implementing regulations. Who do you think is responsible for those implementing regulations? Who do you think enforces those implementing regulations? Who do you think provides the necessary guidance to schools so that they can comply with those regulations? Who do you think informs parents of their rights under the pertinent law?

I took my son to a job interview the other day, at a well-known restaurant chain. Without that relevant law and the federal agency behind it he would not be where he is today.

What regulations are you talking about?

 

[mrhighlife]

lol So we only come in second to Luxembourg. As I thought, you were making shit up.

I'm just some asshole on a message board. You guys are parroting the leader of the free world. Who happens to be an even bigger asshole and is just as wrong.

 

[ribbont]

Read.....

Prospect.org

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And watch...

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At least there is still one Republican willing to speak out right now.....

Top Republican condemns Elon Musk for ‘supplication’ to China in new book

Exclusive: Tom Cotton, Senate intelligence chair, risks angering key Trump ally with harsh words for ‘tech titans’

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Trump sold out to the highest bidder. And now he sits at the resolute like a little bitch while the master lets his toddler act like he's at Disney world

Nice pivot.

 

[The Original Happy Goat]

Also, that relevant law has implementing regulations. That law requires those implementing regulations. Who do you think is responsible for those implementing regulations? Who do you think enforces those implementing regulations? Who do you think provides the necessary guidance to schools so that they can comply with those regulations? Who do you think informs parents of their rights under the pertinent law?

I took my son to a job interview the other day, at a well-known restaurant chain. Without that relevant law and the federal agency behind it he would not be where he is today.

I thought your son didn't like the restaurant game. Is he giving it another go?

 

[BadWakeboarder]

I'm all for actual accounting audits (though a trained person like stollcpa would be better at that than Elon's HS hackers) and stamping out fraud and waste

But there are a lot of misconceptions about the Department and an imagined focus on wokeness. I guess what many consider to be woke are enforcing compliance with things like Title 9.

What the Department of Education does do and what it doesn’t do

It does:
1) Enforce existing federal laws, such as Title IX (sex discrimination), Title VI (race), the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
2) Ensures disbursement of some specific programmatic funds to public schools, such as special ed programs, programs to support Title 1 (raising educational metrics in low-income communities), programs to teach English to non-native speakers, Pell grants for college students
3) Fights scam institutions, such as Trump University, that take your money in return for next to nothing, fights fraud and any Constitutional rights violations, such as barring access to college housing based on race
4) Supports modernization of teaching methods, such as access to computers
5) Supports STEM programs to increase scientific literacy
6) Oversees student loan programs, payment plans, loan relief plans (none absolving you of all debt)

#6 troubles some people, and I can see that. I see no issues with roles 1-5, as long as funds are not being skimmed by anybody in the process.

What the Department of Education doesn't do:
1) Doesn’t decide curriculum or otherwise dictate what is taught, such as Common Core, or even Evolution as a foundational principle of biology
2) Doesn’t pick textbooks or library books
3) Doesn’t set standards other than to identify any programs that violate Federal laws (such as a class for only students of one race)
4) Doesn’t “run” any public school, which are managed by local and state governments, alone
5) Doesn’t hire or fire teachers, set salaries, set qualifications, or enforce preferred ideologies of teaching candidates. This is SOLELY up to states, communities, and school boards
6) Doesn’t provide any oversight over private schools, other than to enforce Federal law, such as sex or race discrimination
7) Doesn’t set or regulate tuition and fees for any institution at any level

It would seem that the main beef is that they are geared to law-and-order issues, mostly, and MAGA just can have rule of law, if a wannabe dictator disagrees with said laws.

You don’t see how #1 is rife with corruption and WTF approaches?

 

[Noodle]

I thought your son didn't like the restaurant game. Is he giving it another go?

LOL that was our oldest, who is now an engineer for Cargill. I was referring to our middle son who has Down syndrome. He loves working at restaurants.

 

[Cortez88]

Whatever law the Dept of Education is enforcing.

You're not saying they're endorcing something that's not a law, are you?

So you don’t know and you’re just making shit up.

 

[mcmurtry66]

LOL that was our oldest, who is now an engineer for Cargill. I was referring to our middle son who has Down syndrome. He loves working at restaurants.

Lowe’s makes an effort to hire folks with downs. I always thought that would be a nice environment. Healthy etc.

 

[Baller23Boogie]

Lowe’s makes an effort to hire folks with downs. I always thought that would be a nice environment. Healthy etc.

Our McDonald's in town has hired a couple of people with down syndrome over the years.

They are such joy to watch, always with a smile.

 

[mcmurtry66]

Our McDonald's in town has hired a couple of people with down syndrome over the years.

They are such joy to watch, always with a smile.

That’s so much better. The grocery I go to hires as well. My longtime gf had a sister with downs. She wasn’t as high functioning and worked at a sheltered workshop. That did not seem fun