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If your engagement with politics, civics and public policy begins and ends with how much groceries and gas cost, then you are the perfect consumer, and somethin
by nyc_data_geek1 2y ago
If your engagement with politics, civics and public policy begins and ends with how much groceries and gas cost, then you are the perfect consumer, and something less than a thinking, rational human with agency and awareness. What is a human without curiosity or critical thinking, but a biological consuming robot? Which incidentally is what the new department of education will try to create a population of, by destroying public education.
Edit: Scratch that, they plan to abolish the department of education
- jcgrillo 2y agoThank you for writing this in such a polite and erudite manner. You saved me from posting an obscenity laden ad hominem.
- dionian 2y agoDon't states have their own DOE?
- alienthrowaway 2y agoStates also have their national guardsmen, does that mean it's a good idea to disband the army?
- nyc_data_geek1 2y agoDoes this mean there is no value in maintaining federal education standards, or do we want to let states decide if they want to abolish theirs as well?
- philjohn 2y agoYes - and states actually control much of the curriculum. However, the DOE does things like make sure there is funding for children with additional needs, which lets be honest, are not going to be replicated in certain states if the DOE is indeed disbanded.