Trump is moving forward with plans to dismantle our Department of Education. If Congress goes along with it, Trump’s power grab will make higher education more expensive and out of reach for millions of families! #MomSky #ProtectPublicSchools
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Hot take: eliminating pell grants would be a good thing if they also reversed all the predatory student loan laws. Together they served only to hyperinflate the cost of education and trap students into lifelong debt.
Without these programs, colleges would be forced to reduce tuition.
I think you will find that republicans want colleges to close. They won’t lower tuition. State schools will start closing, which will only further drive demand for large universities and make spots more competitive and keep people out of college. That’s what elites want…. Education is an equalizer
Absurd EXORD is the absolute most correct description. If a POTUS could simply write an EXORD and destroy something/anything that had been approved and created by Congress, this would have been done and settled as SNAFU a very long time ago. It hasn't because it is unconstitutional. Tyranny unbound!
They WANT that. They WANT it out of reach. They want a home grown source of down and out desperate labor that hasn’t gotten a taste for what’s possible. And they might also want to make greater use of incarcerated labor too.
He actually did in both of those cases, and there is litigation pending. This EO acknowledges that Congress needs to act but he intends to whittle down the agency to bare bones in the meantime.
And when it crushes another industry—and undermines all others because workers need to be able to read and write, understand how things work, do math and GOD forbid, comprehend science… we are all toast.
Where are the voices of the Youth? Where is Generation XX? If the youth of this country think they are worse off than their parents, just wait until Trump and Musk finish gutting the Government Services their parents used to get ahead.
I think Pell Grants will remain with the DofEd for the foreseeable future based on what I have read today. I don't support the Trump flex, but Linda McMahon seems to be approaching everything as far as student aid as rationally as anyone in her position could.
It would help lower college costs enormously if colleges would get rid of all the totally unnecessary layers of administration they've added over the last few decades.
The problem is that in an authoritarian society, ignorance is key. Too much knowledge is counter productive. Bear in mind, only 54 percent of Americans cannot read past a sixth grade level.
Trump’s education cuts aren’t about “freedom”—they’re about locking millions out of opportunity. Killing Pell Grants means fewer kids in college, more debt, and a workforce controlled by the wealthy. This isn’t policy—it’s class warfare. #ProtectPublicSchools #DefendEducation
If Trump genuinely cared about a "merit-based" system (which he doesn't), he would KNOW that many of those kids from poor families who depend on Pell grants are very capable, very smart.
Watch a documentary on spelling bees. Some very smart kids are born into very poor or single-parent families.
The number of students eligible for college will fall faster than Tesla stock. I'm so sure those "foreign investors" (aka GLOBALIZATION) Trump is after can't wait to spend billions building plants for workers here with the competency and skills of ... well, TRUMP.
"America is falling behind the technology race, maybe we should support a more educated workforce."
"No, fuck 'em."
"So then we're going to offer foreign-educated immigrants those jobs?"
"No, fuck 'em."
"Ok. So then we need to educate American-"
"No, fuck 'em."
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Without these programs, colleges would be forced to reduce tuition.
https://bsky.app/profile/elysiumplain.bsky.social/post/3lktqgmcx522n
https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/trump-wants-to-end-education-department-what-does-that-mean-for-financial-aid/
This is a massive disservice to our country. Diversity in science is what allows us to chip away at the unfathomable.
Education gifts opportunity. Education allows for greater communication. Education facilitates a nations growth by individuals who propel it forward.
There is no America without the Dept of Edu guiding our future.
another illegal decree.
Some things are
so predictable.
Watch a documentary on spelling bees. Some very smart kids are born into very poor or single-parent families.
https://conspiranon.blogspot.com/2025/02/when-it-comes-to-formal-schooling-my.html
"No, fuck 'em."
"So then we're going to offer foreign-educated immigrants those jobs?"
"No, fuck 'em."
"Ok. So then we need to educate American-"
"No, fuck 'em."
Maybe "fuck 'em" is all they got.
IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT?!
Remember your oath to the Constitution AND FUCKING FIGHT!!!!!