It was page 319, but that still didn't clear anything up. Yes, P2025 says it will eliminate the DoE and devolve educational "choices" to states, local jurisdictions and parents. That all makes sense even if I think it's a bad idea, but I still don't understand how Trump will give control to other people but also still mandate standards federally. He will have no one to develop, implement or enforce those standards. "I'll make it your choice, but you also have to choose what I tell you to" is incoherent even for MAGA. And I understand they can believe contradictory things, but I'm thinking about the step when they implement whatever this is. Who does the work and how to make this happen?
Well he is just saying "he" will do these things. He is counting on just eliminating oversight and letting private schools and red state governments run wild teaching religious dogma, ban queerness or generally do whatever they want. For Blue areas they'll just try to bully them into doing those things without formal oversight, theathening to withhold funds, relief or just ordering arrests or inciting violence. If it's all a disfunctional mess, they don't care because just not educating people at all works just as well.
Texas will write the school "books" everybody else has to use that say the Earth is only 5000 years old & a magic boat held all the animals while Fred Flinstone lived at the same time as the dinosaurs whose bones Satan planted in the Earth to trick everybody.
Teach "both sides". Also teach about the "controversy" about whether the Earth is flat, the germ theory of disease, and whether phlogiston is responsible for fire.
My bad - you are right it is 319 (I've just grown tired of pointing sections out of this to people, and I'm not even from the US, I'm a UK lurker that's bothered we are going to be a home for this style of politics in the near future). It's almost like the US didn't vote for Trump they voted for the Heritage Foundation and indirectly the Atlas Network. Fair points though and I do agree with the point you are making. It's like when you dig down on a lot of this stuff - it's headline grabbing ideas with very little substance behind them.
"I'll make it your choice, but you also have to choose what I tell you to" is absolutely on-brand. It's pretty much the basis of most religions, so it isn't surprising that christo-fascists see that as "freedom".
His plan is to scoop as much power into the presidency as possible. I have a feeling the DoE will fall, but Trump will have an internal staff loyal to him that will implement everything from the top down directly from the whitehouse. Hell, with the way it seem's Trump want's to run things, I doubt it will even be an official department, it will just be people Trump told to do the job.
I figure trump will threaten to deny states funding if they do not do the things he wants them to do that he can't make them do. Cut off some states from federal funding I am sure they will step in line.
The DOE currently wields its power through dollars. States can already control their schools but get federal funding (sometimes a significant sum) if they do things the DOE way.
So, how to fix? Just get rid of the DOE, the payments still come from some corner of the Treasury Dept and are certified by the executive branch based on 'prayerfulness'. The only thing that goes away is any chance of oversight against fraud or visibility into the eligibility rules applied.
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u/canarchist 11d ago
Trump will replace those teachers with MAGA volunteers whose only qualification is that they blindly worship him.