Democrats Have Failed Students
President Bush signing the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001

The United States ranks near the mid-30’s in education when put up against The World. For an advanced country such as ours, it’s a shame that we have allowed Democrats and their diseased mentality to influence our kids. It’s gotten so bad that Harvard, the top university in the nation, this year launched a new remedial math course called ‘Math MA,’ which is an introduction to Functions and Calculus I. Of course, the pandemic played its part, but even before that, the top students in big Democrat areas were in need of remedial courses before entering college. All of the damage done is at the hands of the Teachers Unions, and a leftist leadership at federal, state and local levels, hell bent on building a coalition of people dependent on government by abandoning the basic building blocks of their education for political gain. Essentially, the students so-called ‘educated’ by Democrats have been set up for failed lives, and they should be mad for not properly being prepared for what to expect in life. Gen Z has learned the Democrats’ grift, and that’s why Trump won the youth vote in 2024.
The left’s arguments against President Donald Trump’s move to close the Department of Education are fruitless. For decades American education has been failing the most vulnerable kids, and have faced no accountability. No one has been fired, and there have been scandal after scandal of teachers faking test scores to make themselves look better. I recall a case in Atlanta some 10 years ago. America spends the most on students as set against The World, and frankly, we are not getting any bang for our buck. And Democrats claim that by eliminating the Department of Education, that Trump is taking away opportunities away from students. All the President is doing is returning the responsibility of education to states like it should have been this entire time. Block grants are a much better way to distribute funds, instead of being directed by unelected bureaucrats at the education department.
The Dems talking points about Trump enriching billionaires is not flying. It’s an old and fruitless argument that people yawn when hearing, and they are tired of it. There is no authenticity in the Democrats’ argument. They offer nothing new, except in regards to DEI and transgenderism, two disciplines that ruin lives and offer nothing to shore up one’s life except in a career foundation built on sand. Students are being lied to, and by the time they find out, they have graduated, unprepared for life, wondering where everything went wrong.
Democrat big union bosses push the narrative that Trump wants to hurt kids, which couldn’t be farther from the truth. It can’t be helped that rich people have children, and want the best for them. But that doesn’t mean that someone from a lesser background can’t be as successful. It all depends on a student’s drive in how they will proceed, and I appreciate people who have come from meager means, and have made something of themselves. They understand sacrifice, and what it takes to succeed. Taking away the Department of Education is not gonna stop that, in fact, it’s going to reset the game, with states competing with each other to see who is tops. Trump is not the bad guy in this enterprise. He is simply changing the way money is being spent, taking the federal bureaucrat out of the way, to see states rise or fall on their own accord. Obviously, states that discard with leftist bull crap in schools will fare better than states who stick to leftist ideology. Florida is way ahead, and surprisingly Mississippi is making headway. With the federal blank check gone, states suddenly find themselves, now having to yield to themselves in making the right decisions for their students.
The destruction of the education department will lessen the powers of the teachers unions. Now instead of just focusing on one nation, they have 50 states to deal with. All with different systems, and ways of doing things. And what happens when a state goes rogue and funding is threatened? Maine still has to deal with its transgender issues, or risk losing federal funding. States will have to use their block grant funds wisely, meaning, they will have to actually think about their spending. Many school districts are top heavy with bureaucrats and administrators, than actual teachers. Can A.I. help in running the administrative side more efficiently?
The solution is not throwing money at the problem, but doing the actual job that teachers should be doing, by teaching the subjects the tried and true ways that teachers have been doing for hundreds of years. Bring back discipline that will scare kids straight. Counsel kids to show them that if they don’t straighten up and fly right, they are truly in for a hard life. Teachers are supposed to help students realize their futures, not point them to the welfare office. The left’s control over education, especially public education, is pure failure, yet they cry over the potential loss to the kids? What loss I say? Students for the most part are better off with states controlling the block grants.
It’s sad that vulnerable kids who come from broken homes and terrible hoods, and their parents were probably passed on by those same teachers a generation ago. Uncaring. Unenthused about educating future members of society. Low-income families should not be used as pawns in the education game. Their children should be challenged instead of being failed upwards, only to find that they fall through the cracks.
Even The New York Times has admitted that around 2013, something changed in the education scene, and a recent piece, ‘The Pandemic Is Not The Only Reason U.S. Students Are Losing Ground,’ documents the steady rise in the lowest scoring students tests. It was a slow progression, but progress nonetheless, and even in the worst neighborhoods, there was some lift detected. Of course, now, test scores are in free fall, with fourth graders unable to read, and eighth graders unable to do simple math. It makes you think, what is going on in the school environment that makes teachers unable to teach? Obviously discipline is key. Students are in control, and teachers are frustrated that disruptions cause an ineffective environment. We need many Joe Louis Clark’s of ‘Lean on Me,’ fame, with unconventional disciplinary measures that rid schools of troublemakers. And perhaps all principals should go through a mini-basic training that promotes discipline, as a proper way to conduct oneself while on school grounds.
Big Education used the pandemic as a crutch to account for their failed ways, but the NYT actually did some reporting noting that education had been failing for over ten years before covid struck. President George W. Bush actually did some good with the ‘No Child Left Behind Act’ from 2001, but when Democrats gutted it in 2013, they stole millions of kids’ futures by removing accountability of schools, and yielding to the teachers unions, with worthless projects that were taken away from real teaching. By refusing to back basic standards that low-income students need to compete, the teachers instead threw their hands up into the air. All of a sudden, teaching English was racist and white supremacists. Testing was racist. Everyone had to be the same, lowered to the same level, which is essentially communism, thus robbing students with higher aptitudes the potential to better themselves.
While students in Asia take their education seriously, US kids are barely educated, unable to achieve because they can’t read or write. And what Donald Trump has done with deleting the Department of Education has divided the 1 into 50. Fifty great reasons to offer different approaches to return some normalcy to educating students properly. Competition is a good thing, and no one wants to be last in regards to educating American students. The difference between California and Florida is striking, with The Golden State all-in on woke, DEI and gender; while The Sunshine State has rid itself of leftist tactics and has gotten down to the brass tacks of educating students. And guess who is winning?
English is not racist, and African American Vernacular English, or AAVE, is not acceptable in an education or business environment, as crazy academics might suggest. The states that are gonna be the most successful in this new education game are the states that boot the socialist crap from their curriculums, the critical race theory, 1619 project, transgenderism, and diversity equity and inclusion. Of course the blue states will maintain their doomed courses and will fail. And I predict that future company decisions on where to move HQ’s, factories, and such, may well depend on how a state’s schools are performing.
It’s simple. Focusing on phonics, and real standards, teacher accountability, and honest hard work at both ends of the candle can make a difference. It’s just a matter of will. President Trump had the will to destroy a destructive cause to the American education system. And his will is gonna make way for student success at all levels.
Ruben can be reached at: ruben@montgomerycountynews.net

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