Comment by bobmcnamara
16 hours ago
Roger Freeman, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan's education advisor, was afraid that educated voters would turn the United States towards communism.
One of Ronald Reagan's campaign promises was dismantling or breaking the department of education, similar to what he had done to California's state universities by limiting their budgets and moving the burden of tuition to students.
At the time this was quite popular as it lowered taxes.
A few weeks ago apparently, the 'promise less taxes->everybody happy' magic spell has once again worked.
Well hopefully Trump and his DoGE head Musk will eliminate the Department of Education soon, so that most public universities will have to shut their doors and Americans can stop wasting money on college education. Then all the college students can go to work at meatpacking plants and farms to replace all the illegal immigrants that are about to be deported. This will definitely help America re-assert itself as a world power and a great place to live.
F*k that liberal education. Fruit picking is for Americans, dammit!
And it looks like we'll have a WWE co-founder with no education experience in charge. That should work out well for students.