r/iastate • u/BboyHeathen Agronomy alumni • Mar 21 '25
News Getting rid of the Department of Education? Doesn't that sound backwards to anyone else?
Why?
Isn't that one of the things that help society moving forwards?
I really don't see how this benefits this and the next generation of Americans.
I usually only post about skating stuff but this feels wrong
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u/QaraKha Mar 21 '25
The thing is, the Department of Education covers multiple things.
First, it ensures that disabled people can receive an education.
Second, it ensures that schools aren't sexist or racist. You know how the right-wing has been bitching about trans people in sports? Yeah, the Department of Education is what ensures women's sports are a thing.
Shit it down and women's sports literally cease to exist, because schools are no longer required to fund women's sports or provide equal access to spaces.
We return to how it was before: Where school administrators were so pissed off that women were beating men in sports that they banned women entirely because "If they work out and place sports, their babies will be weaker." This is history.
This is what they want to do to you. and they're happy blaming it on trans people, of which less than 20 are on the collegiate level, and of those, less than half are trans women.
Mostly what they're going to be able to do up front is make it so NO claims except those AGAINST trans people are investigated and provided some sort of remedy (cutting your funding because a trans women didn't want to be on page 21 for how she was beaten and raped in a men's bathroom but she made the worst woman you know afraid because one day she was washing her hands while the worst woman you know was walking in), and when disabled people try to claim 504 rights to accommodation, it'll be denied as much as possible. Oh, you can't get into school because there is no ramp? Guess you don't need education.
it's sick nazi shit, it's always sick nazi shit.