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All throughout the campaign last year, I kept writing that I wanted the Republicans to talk mostly about the border and the economy, and that worked out well. Those were the most pressing issues, of course. High on my personal wish list was an issue that has been there for a long time: doing something about the Department of Education (DOE).
When I first began writing about politics a long time ago, my two main focuses were media bias and school choice. When one takes a deep dive into school choice, one soon develops a deep dislike for the evil teachers' unions and the United States Department of Education. Hopefully, things will soon be changing with the latter. This is from Paula:
The Senate confirmed Linda McMahon as Education secretary on Monday evening, 51-45.
Last week, the Senate advanced McMahon’s nomination by a 51-47 vote along party lines, with no Democrats voting in favor.
During her Senate testimony, McMahon outlined three priorities for the Department of Education:
- Listen to parents, not politicians
- Build up careers, not college debt
- Empower states, not special interests
- Invest in teachers, not Washington bureaucrats
Who could argue with that?
Well, the Democrats are going to argue with it, of course. Democrats are essentially owned by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and the National Education Association (NEA), which is the largest labor union in the United States. The continued bloating of the Dept. of Education is integral to the unions' grift. The success of that grift is integral to the unions' continued control over the Democratic Party. The circle must remain unbroken in order for the public school progressive indoctrination mills' continued functioning.
Language like, "Empower states, not special interests" strikes fear into the hearts of the DOE. One of the best ways to do that is to untether the states from the DOE cashflow pipeline and let each state have more control over how it spends money to educate its children. The closer to home that the funding is, the more control that parents in the states have over the process.
It's important to keep insiders involved in running the scheme, obviously. Outsiders make the bureaucratic beast nervous. This is something I wrote last November when Trump nominated Linda McMahon for the DOE job:
The New York Times described McMahon as "a former professional wrestling executive with little experience in education policy." What the perennially clueless leftists don't understand is that it's a feature, not a bug in this situation.
President Trump has explicitly spoken about abolishing the Dept. of Education since he's been back in office. Quite predictably, the Democrats say this means that Republicans want to destroy public schools. Public schools were just fine before Education became a Cabinet-level department. We managed to land on the moon long before mandatory kindergarten and Pre-K.
The AFT and the NEA were the ones who fought to keep schools closed due to COVID even long after everyone else in the government said they should be opened again. Those kids are still behind.
The greatest thing that could happen for the education of American school children would be abolishing — or severely gutting — the DOE and therefore weakening the teachers' unions. This is probably the only shot that the country will have to accomplish this, at least for a very long time.
Let's hope Trump's Labor nominee doesn't get a chance to screw it up.
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