Executive Order Shutting Down Department of Education

What a mess. I have no words at this point.

If you are thinking it will not take down the quality of USA education several notches just coz the Dept. had Education in its name, you don't know what is coming for you. And Don Donny always follows through on all his crazy ideas!

Pretty cool that the EO cites a stat from the National Assessment of Educational Progress as evidence of the department’s failings, without acknowledging of course that the NAEP is administered by the Department of Education. I’m sure the problem will vanish once we no longer have the metrics to track it!

Here’s a small HN discussion on the topic from eight years ago - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13600211">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13600211</a>

An absolute showdown of ridiculousness and stupidity.<p>“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” - Elie Wiesel

Dumb people voted them in, dumb people made them rich and they know it.<p>This is staring to look more like an assault on the educated. Maybe its time we sharpen our pencils.

Understandable. Other countries seem to have education figured out, but now it&#x27;s time to let America try out what it excells at, a free market implementation. I&#x27;ve seen a lot of good ideas on this forum for how it could work so I&#x27;m curious to see the results.