Gutting the Department of Education Because They Think Downsizing and Dismantling it is Smart?

      In March 2025, our Leader signed an Executive Order to close the Department of Education. There is footage on You Tube of Senator Maxine Waters and others actually being locked out of a Department of Education on February 7, 2025 by a fierce man wearing a brown polo shirt.

My vision is some day, parents will be asked to keep their children home and educate their own kids. There will be choices to send a child away to an agency, but this will be very unusual or rare. Teachers might be available on tv screens... Artificial Intelligence will be like the grocery-store bought encyclopedias of the 1980's, education in a box. Kids will go from home to work much quicker. What parent will want an 18 year old senior with his smug attitude about senior-itius disease ("who cares? I will graduate..." ) and launch their kids into internships, jobs, and opportunities to bring home the bacon! 

Twelfth graders (and seniors in college) are often caught with a real feeling, senioritus. It is a psychological state of just feeling done with it, burnout and severe lack of motivation that kicks in when students near the end of high school or college. Once college acceptances or post-graduation plans are secured, the "finish line" is in sight, causing drive and academic effort to plummet.

Who does Education benefit in 2026? We said it benefitted society since it became mandatory. After the Industrial Revolution. Our country was a majority of farmers. Learning was "hands on". What is not to love about that?

Government decided that as cities became more developed and industry was factory work that there was an urgent demand for a literate, disciplined workforce capable of operating complex machinery and managing logistics. Governments introduced mandatory education 

I am describing education becoming centered in the home, with parents serving as the primary educators, AI functioning as an educational tool, and young people moving more quickly into internships, apprenticeships, and employment.

First of all, I am speaking as an educator, but not someone who took more than one semester of Government. My own son will rant that every child needs to take a year of Government and a more rigorous program of Economics as well. But I am not alone when I think that USA education is trying its best but not getting better. In an age of closing schools for nearly two years quite agreeable due to the Pandemic, kids on a swing complained they "failed" Covid 19. My own kid, super smart, laughed..."how can you fail online school, you just had to show up?" No doubt kids got set back, by those nurtured and loved by their grandmothers, Moms, Dads, brothers this was a way that things had to change for education. Flipped learning, showing kids a video first then asking questions later, spending much more time on social emotional learning. Trauma-informed counselors will tell ya that a kids cannot learn if there is friction in his brain from bad things that happened to him (or her). The brain gets stuck because it is freeze or fear mode. Their nervous system, the amygdala perceives constant danger. The much heard about Pre-frontal Cortex most often used for logical thinking, is useless. Then the child cannot physically access that brain-area that is required for traditional learning. They cannot use their memory as effectively. They cannot concentrate enough. What is called "academic compliance" is nearly useless if a child has experienced trauma. And  need I remind you, one persons' crisis or trauma is not another's, so an adult might thing, that was no big deal but for that child, it was!