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Linda McMahon is Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Education, at least until they can dismantle the blasted thing, if that’s actually on the agenda. McMahon is the wife of WWE founder Vince McMahon.
And, unsurprisingly, some people aren’t thrilled with this.
Now, McMahon ran the Small Business Administration during Trump’s first term, and since the Secretary of Education is more of an administrative role anyway, there’s really no reason for her not to be able to do the job well.
Unfortunately, Sen. Elizabeth Warren has an issue with it.
It might be an insult to our teachers, though I’m skeptical that it is. The idea that this is “an insult…to every kid in America who relies on a good public school education” is laughable, though.
First, let’s understand that a lot of kids rely on a good public school education. The problem is that the Department of Education has failed to deliver any such thing since it opened its doors in 1980. Spending per student has shot up, but test scores haven’t.
That’s because the money isn’t funding students. It’s funding the creation of more jobs in the administration, which isn’t benefitting those kids at all.
So those kids rely on a good public school education, but they’re getting something else entirely.
See, if the Department of Education were doing its job, only the most extreme libertarians would be calling for it to be shut down. As a libertarian, I know we’re going to be ignored anyway, so it would be a non-issue for just about everyone. A department that’s producing results gets a pass.
But, as I’ve documented about a thousand times throughout my years of commentary, public education isn’t really cutting the mustard.
Yet we also need to understand that the Department of Education isn’t the only pathway toward public education.
Public schools existed long before its creation. I know, I was in public school when the Department of Education became a thing.
The truth, though, is that as things currently stand, pretending that the public schools we have now are what students deserve is the real insult to these kids. The idea that their minds can handle nothing but indoctrination rather than math, grammar, and critical thinking is the real insult. The concept of creating dependence on the state as an unmitigated good, as it’s currently pushed in public schools, is the real insult.
Our kids deserve so much better than they’ve gotten for the last 44 years. Parents deserve better, too.
As homeschooling continues to be demonized by many people, including many like Elizabeth Warren, the truth of the matter is that I can find my daughter’s strengths and weaknesses and adjust accordingly while public schools continue to treat kids like interchangeable widgets.
That, too, is the real insult.
And that’s why Warren actually has a problem. She knows too many people in the current administration weren’t qualified for their jobs in the first place and she said nothing. The sin this time around is that it’s Trump picking people and he’s picking people who are more inclined to burn it all to the ground rather than allow bureaucrats to keep screwing over our families.
Elizabeth Warren’s entire attitude toward education is the real insult, all while pretending that nominating an established administrator to run a department that shouldn’t exist in the first place is insulting.
Then again, this is a woman who thinks her 1/1024 Native American ancestry makes her an American Indian and repeating that nonsense over and over again wasn’t insulting, so it’s really evidence of just how clueless she is.
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