I mean yeah but I’m kind of getting sick of the leopards eating people’s faces. It was kind of cathartic at first because of the irony but it’s still leopards eating people’s faces. Sooner or later it’s going to be my face and I voted for no leopards eating anyone’s face let alone mine.
many of the communities that rely most heavily on federal dollars are in Republican-led states, which tend to spend less on education and often have higher child poverty rates.
Sounds like socialism, which Republicans hate. Good on them for sticking by their principles! … Oh, wait …
“We don’t have a problem with the federal Department of Education being dissolved,” said Dr. Willingham, a Republican. “We have a problem with funding being taken from our children.”
So you want the money with no oversight? Didn’t you guys just take a chainsaw to the federal government because of “waste and fraud”? How do you think money without oversight is going to work out?
So you want the money with no oversight? Didn’t you guys just take a chainsaw to the federal government because of “waste and fraud”? How do you think money without oversight is going to work out?
Think? No, they reacted. Thinking hard.
If only there were a popular children’s story that could have warned them against dismantling a resource-providing system in an attempt to acquire more resource
Perhaps if there were an allegorical story about how you shouldn’t trust politicians delivered the by the politician in question, maybe they would have understood then
Easier to steal the money that way and/or funnel it into bible study in a public school, of course that’s what they want.
Ah, a classic 😚👌
Sorry for the children though. They didn’t.
And the children are the ones who will suffer the most
Suffering is the point! And then they have more undereducated fodder for the capitalist machine!
“Pro life until birth”
Maybe I’m still just waiting for the morning caffeine to hit, but I don’t think that first sentence has any business using a comma.
You are, correct.
“Correct, you are.”
- Master Dave Yoda
You, are correct.
“I love the poorly educated”- Trump, 2016
The big problem/benefit of federal school funding is it tends to come with strings. Woke stuff like accessibility, special needs, girls sports, accreditation.
Most of us see this as a huge benefit, setting some minimum standards for public education. Magats may not, although I believe they like the money and just want to be free to oppress minorities
An interesting fact about this particular issue is the lack of Republican support (as it stands): https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/senators-including-republicans-reject-all-of-trumps-proposed-education-cuts/2025/07
I thought only like 8% of school funding most places was federal
As a nationwide average, yes. Rural schools tend to depend on it more than city schools. Students are more spread apart, and they don’t have a large property tax base.
Plus, even an 8% cut would hurt a lot when they’ve already been squeezed the last few years.
Closer to like ~20%, most of the funding goes to programs that help students that don’t have rich parents. Like reduced lunches, help with special staff to help students with learning issues, etc.
Federal funding for schools isn’t this crazy shit MAGA talks about. It helps with paying teachers, staff, student programs, etc. It’s not lining the pockets of anybody. Just assisting public education.
