• ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    They’re going to be disappointed when they find out the education department is basically just student loans and doesn’t set education policy for K-12 education. They distribute grants to K-12 schools but actual policy is mostly a state and local thing.

    Also, they run a continuing education system in DC. I took a course in Mandarin before a trip to China once. I didn’t work for the government but there were classmates learning Mandarin for national security reasons who wouldn’t even tell me which agency they worked for.

    TL/DR: The Department of Education isn’t setting policy for elementary or middle or high schools.

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      They don’t really want to abolish it. They want to privatize it. So that the wealthy can make money off of Americans suffering.