Conservatives want to abolish Education

[PussOfYonce 3,657]

Huh????????????????????????????????

[gothicdream 39,660]

Every day I feel like we move an inch closer to Gilead tbh.

[gumzy3000 7,906]

Living in Canada feels like living above a crackhouse sometimes 

[27monster27 15,918]

These people are so embarrassing. It feels like we are living in a prequel to a dystopian novel.

[LeJudas 6,490]

🤡

Sigh 

 

[bionic 50,111]

You only have to turn to Kentucky to see what happens when you decimate education.

[Nemo 4,411]

This isn't a new position for them.

Shutting down the Department of Education doesn't mean eliminating educational funding, it just means de-federalizing it. (To be clear, I don't agree with their position. I'm just trying to explain it.) It's one of those "States' Rights" things. But there is also broad opposition to public education in general among conservatives -- which, again, doesn't imply no education, or even no public funding of education; but rather, public funding of private schools. You may hear this referred to as "school choice". More neutrally, it's often called "vouchers".

One motivation for this is their desire to integrate religious instruction into schools. You can't do that in a public school, but you can in a private one. But the original, real reason they started their exodus from public schools was desegregation.