Yet this reminds me I do A1 from the store.

McMahon's contributions to education will dwarf those of Pestalozzi, Comenius, Froebel and Dewey. Linda's concepts will be studied by future educators, along with those of Professor G.W. Bush, who famously uttered these words of wisdom: "Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?" and "You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."

god, those fucking republicans and the TOTAL DISASTER MORONS they keep electing.
(obviously my comment also applies to the house and senate and all the way down the line to dog catcher)

trump put a spectacularly stupid and unqualified person in charge of the DOE to help him shut it down.

God, how I hate him.

gaslighting on "woke" and "DEI" when in reality they lack thereof.

I believe it was Dana Goldberg on the Stephanie Miller show who said, “If there was a Department of Babies, he’d nominate the dingo”.

But she is a leading contender. (Tough competition though.)

...for ignoring climate change and early education. They'll never forgive us and shouldn't. "Nana and Papa just couldn't be inconvenienced."

Great bunch of people,no wonder Trump love them so much.

…with A-1 stealing the spotlight.

I prefer HP Sauce or German Curry Ketchup. I live in NM but do not make my own salsa (shameful).

Obviously, brains and the ability to communicate have little, if any, correlation to having obese wealth.

Correlation between political power and wealth? That's a different thing; and the perfect recipe for autocracy apparently.

I have trouble seeing a way out of this as long as the role of money and communications in politics are essentially deregulated.

How long has it been since kids in elementary schools have had/needed laptops, or at least computers in the classroom?

Yet we still off-shore and on-shore* the majority of good job in information technology. What happened? Well duh, USING computers was never the issue.

Just what the F*CK does any AI-humping moron think that AI is going to do for a FIRST GRADER?

I predict instead that it will HARM learning. (Which may be the actual goal, and most here will understand what I mean by that.)


* "on-shore" - in case anyone is not familiar - means hiring H-1Bs instead of American workers. Even for near-entry-level positions. And the C-suite insists it's because they can't find qualified Americans for these jobs. But, news flash from someone with decades in IT - it is NOT rocket science. At least not for someone entering IT at an entry-level position. Yet some (not all) of the on-shored people still manage to be bad at it. So why the f*ck can't we hire Americans and let them learn via OJT? (Answer: This is your country on oligarchy.)

They want schools to have steak sauce not books, teachers, lunches, or anything else needed for learning.

Not of course. But that doesn't seem to matter to them as witnessed by McMahon being appointed Education Sec'y.

I contend however that poor education leads to fewer and fewer people in positions of power to actually make good decisions on...oh wait. I think we've already gotten there (see trump as president and his cabinet appointees)

From Steven Miller to Kash Patel to DOD Sec'y Hedseth to bribe taker Bondi as AG down to MaMahan, and here we are.

We're so screwed.

and not much else apparently since red states want to put them to work in factories and farms

And decided no one in the DOE likes her or someone would have corrected her. Instead they let her go out there and show herself as the fool she is.

Put somebody like trump back in the White House, and this is the sort of Secretary of Education you should expect.

fir, fur...

You need a little AI sauce on the kids.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Not only do we face the issue that if Trump gets his way by shutting down the school lunch programs a lot of kids won’t have anything to put A1 on, I’m starting to think we need to remove computers from K-6 education and go back to books and pencils.

Last night I put together the Sunday paper. Because there’s a delay between runs I was reading the Lifestyle section, which prints Thursday night and gets the inserts Friday morning, to kill time. The cover story was about a monastery, and the story jumped to the last page in the section where I found this jump head: MONESTERY. Uhh…dude, teach the Three R’s and when the kids can spell and find information without automation then introduce computers.

Prefer the thick variety

She was married to Vince McMahon, after all.

Makes it go faster.

That will never sink in properly. We are literally outnumbered by imbeciles.

Idiocracy is a documentary.

like Betsy DeVos was chased away back during 45's first term!

The department! And, along with the Department of Energy, the Department of Education was made a cabinet level position by President Carter in an effort to streamline the federal government. TFG apparently wants to eliminate education in this country just when it's needed the most - we need to educate the next generation, especially in history and Civics...

And I remember Chaffetz, he gave us a preview of what's happening now. And he was succeeded by Trey Gowdy who wasn't any better. Good Grief!

there was still a lot of forms, letter heads, and other documents that referenced "HEW" (since it was broken up by Carter in '79).

They want to control ALL of the information and education and are going full force in a "now or never" endeavor.

It's right out of "1984" - "He who controls the past, controls the future"

That is why they are trying to erase and then completely re-write the past history of this country.

And Chaffetz was a nasty PITA like Issa & Nunes. Gowdy was too but seemed to have softened a tiny bit like Jeff Flake, when going out the door.

is such a big deal.