Republicans push Legislation Closing the Department of Education

[T. A. Gardner]

Is NASA?

If not...then it gets its authority for a Dept. Education from the same place as it gets the authority for NASA.

Or any of the other non-military departments that have been created.

Governments find themselves having to set rules and regulations so that anarchy and chaos are not the standard. Some governments is needed for Interior matters, some for food standards, some for communications, some for air travel...commerce...etc.

Education also.

NASA started out as the NACA (National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics), an agency tasked with collecting and archiving data on aeronautics for industry use. NASA extended that mission to space exploration. It doesn't regulate states in any way. It's role on space and related issues is still only advisory.

 

[Ross Dolan]

As written, the Constitution as a document would probably get a "D" in any reputable first year law school school class.

"As written" I doubt it would earn a "D." More likely, it would get an "F."

It has been improved.

The American right is doing as much as possible to reverse the improvements...and return it to the "F" status it had as originally written.

 

[Ross Dolan]

The federal government has very limited authority.

Actually, it has LOTS of authority...and lots of ways and means of exercising it.

It does far more than it has authority to.

Great. That is what is needed for our day. And considering the kind of shit American right-wingers are throwing at us, I imagine the need for that is increasing.

All things you mentioned need not be done by the federal government.

There are lots of things being done in our country that need not be done by the people doing them. I am grateful to those people...not crabbing like you are. So?

They have no authority to do it. Plain and simple.

Obviously they do...and they are doing it. And since you asked me where they get it from, you recognize that they do...otherwise your question makes no sense.

 

[anonymoose]

Republicans hate it that Americans are getting educated

Actually I think they hate it that they’re not getting educated.
Baltimore is a prime example.
And why do dims want to hold back gifted students? Do away with advanced placement?
I know why, I think you do too, just want to see if you or any of the far left are capable of being honest.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

And why do dims want to hold back gifted students?.

Superior Students Must Be Treated Like Superior Athletes Are, From Childhood On

The private-sector tyranny mandates that "gifted" (nobody gives them anything but insults and ingratitude) students get treated like freaks and losers all through grade school and high school, that they work without pay in college, and that they get nothing out of the patents they create for their knuckle-dragging bosses.

At age 18, Derek Jeter got a million dollars to put himself through baseball's equivalent of college education. Even before that, his sense of self-worth was enhanced by being socially popular. The Yankees' return on that investment was $250,000,000 over and above his salary.

Nerds should man up and make their motto, "If you're so smart, why haven't you made the rich poorer?"

 

[Concart]

Trump fascists are terrified of education.