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I was going to ask if this means I no longer have to pay back my student loans, but of course I know better than that.

This is a good choice as they just sit around and do nothing all day anyway considering who got elected.

In case anyone is still wondering if Republicans are enemies of the United States of America, you need not wonder anymore.

the federal department does some very important assistance to state departments and students, but it is worth noting that states do basically all of the actual control and management of schools

How about we abolish student loans instead.

I can't fucking tell if this is a joke or not

The executive order’s a symbolic gesture—Congress won’t scrap the Department outright. But the subtext? Steady erosion. Shift student debt oversight to Treasury, pare back civil rights investigations, let federal education funds atrophy. States then fill the vacuum: red ones push vouchers, defund “woke” curricula, blue ones scramble to plug gaps.

The playbook’s transparent. Undermine trust in public institutions, then offer “choice” as salvation. Rural GOP districts take the bait, then recoil when their Title I lunches and special ed services evaporate. Even conservatives quietly rely on federal data systems and grant streams—hypocrisy’s baked in.

Latest school choice expansions? Distraction tactics. Real damage accrues in the margins: disabled students lose protections, civil rights complaints backlog, teacher retention plummets. ED’s survived 40 years of GOP vitriol because dismantling it’s all optics, no payoff.

Predictable cycle. Provoke outrage, let chaos incentivize privatization. Rinse, repeat.

Remember when Bush pushed the "No Child Left Behind Act", and we all realized the federalization of control over education was deeply problematic and removed democratic control over education? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

The government not handling every social function in society isn't scary on its own. That in combination with the people as a whole having no control over the economy is when that becomes nasty (i.e., economic inequality). That is of course the vision of the ruling class.

Smart voters are just no good.

Good news everyone! No more Student Loans!

You mean the White House is preparing an executive order for protests so they can still gitmo faster?

If the Federal Government doesn’t want to be responsible for anything, why even be a country? Each state be their own I guess /s

Also are they going to reduce taxes for all the cuts? Doubt it, but states would have to make increases to cover all the new work.

we live in the dumbest timeline.

The White House is drafting ~~an executive order~~ a royal decree to dismantle the Department of Education, aligning with Trump's ~~long-standing pledge~~ long con.

~~Critics~~ An overwhelming consensus of experts, including the National Education Association, warn this move would harm students, increase costs, and weaken protections.

Trump also recently signed ~~an order expanding school choice~~ a decree lowering educational standards, reinforcing the Republican agenda of ~~decentralizing education policy~~ dismantling public secular education in favor of religious and political indoctrination.

There, fixed the "we must obscure reality by using their terms so they won't come after us next" cowardice.

Give the power back to the states but create a credentialing system to weed out 'unpatriotic' teachers. Shall that be left to the states too?