Why Trump Wants The Department of Education Shut Down

In this video we’re going to discuss President Trump wants to shut down the department of education.

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[amberschultz]

I'm a lunch lady. The kids are hungry because they make us throw away so much food. It's sad when the kids say they are hungry but we're not allowed to give them more. That should be what people are upset about

[armyatc]

I went to high school in the early 90s, and I watched first hand as the "blue collar track" was removed from high school. Shop class, and automotive science were canceled, in exchange for social science and a hard push that everyone go to college.

So instead of some gearhead kid getting training in high school how to run a repair shop, he is pushed to go get a small business degree at a 4 year university

[GeekZone]

As someone who is APOLITICAL, this is a good example for why I am subscribed to you. You look to the root of what the topic is, how it works, and how it applies to the current event. You are a conservative [right-leaning centrist] that isn't a grifter, extremest, or meat rider. You have common sense and look at things logically, and you don't emotionally manipulate your audience. Glad to have a reliable political commentator like you because it takes a lot of trust and time and energy in looking towards a reliable source of political information. Keep doing what you're doing and I hope others like you will appear for the newer generations.

Edit [3/26/2025]: God Damn! This is the first time I ever had engagement in my comment section!

[porterwake]

I'm a teacher. If teachers are all of a sudden mad about this, it is simply because Trump is doing it. If we EVER had a meeting where we were to talk about some federal education initiative, every single teacher would roll their eyes and say stay the hell out of our business. They are a bunch of paid bureaucrats who are NEVER in the classroom. Good riddance to the DOE. I can teach fine enough without it.

[cryptomancer]

My eyes were forced wide open this year when I realized my kids needed some help with their schooling. I thought everything was okay. They had all A's, teacher meetings had stellar reviews. Kids would even come home and do their homework.

My oldest is in 8th grade, couldn't write a full sentence. We thought it was from some of his disabilities and other things that were going on. Nope, took me a day of research, the right curriculum, and 8 hours. Now he can write sentences. Pretty well, i might add.

My youngest, whose a math whizz, has the spelling and writing ability of a 2nd grader. He's in 5th grade. I was telling him how this isn't good. He couldn't understand what i was getting at becasue ALL HIS CLASSMATES are on the same level.

Well, after a month of working (we're learning composition, logic, and latin) with them every evening, their abilities are skyrocketing. We're getting emails from teachers noting marked inprovement.

But in the end, I'm pulling them out. We are doing homeschooling next year. We already have summer planned out. I'm so ashamed it took me this long to realize my kids were in this bad of shape.

Edit: do to the stupidity of some, I am making some clarifications.

First, we knew there was a problem. What we realized is that there wasn't going to be a resolution to the problem. I have been doing some out of school work with my kids for the past year now. At first it was light, now it's intensive.

Second, I do not blame the teachers. They are chained to a failing system. They can't go back to help the kids that need it. We live in one of the worst states for education in the US, so all y'all out there saying, "Well, I went to school and I'm fine", stop using anecdotal evidence. I can tell you don't have higher education from the way you are speaking about facts and making wild assumptions.

Third, my kids want to leave the school. I work part time at a place where they get to help out (and earn some money). They are learning people skills by helping customers, how to problem solve, as well as getting a bit of money that we are using to teach them finances. My kids wanted to leave for a variety of reasons. Not least of which was a death threw my son received from simply STANDING UP to a bully. The little thug called my mom and threatened to sh**t him and the school up.

You don't know our lives, this is the internet. Spend your time and judgment on yourself, cause God knows you need it.

[carq]

Current highschooler here, living in one of the most agricultural states. I’m glad our food is being fixed, today I ate what essentially a McRib, but more processed, and our milk is sponsored by Disney. And hell, our produce is junk that massive companies make, and what’s funnier? Apples, the apple we get are AWFUL, they taste like wax and have the most mouth drying texture I’ve ever felt, and I live in Apple country, they are multiple Apple orchards within at least 30 minutes from my school, some of them closer to others. I don’t think they’re getting most of their produce from local farmers.

[TheVinegarden]

Boomer here. I went through my entire education without the Department of Education. Most of my former teachers liked the old system much better. The Dept of Education has done everything for administration, nothing for students or teachers. There’s some big wigs getting a lot of money for doing nothing but lining their pockets.
School lunches has always been under the department of agriculture. We had great meals back in the day.
Our lunch ladies made most of our meals from scratch.

[Setsotama]

The fact people are reacting without actually doing research just shows the results of the Dept of Education and why it should go

[nicholasanderson]

The people who are freaking out online, had no idea what the department of education actually did until they found out it’s being cut. And like the one lady said; programs are being moved in to other departments for greater efficiency and help to students. The same people who probably complain all the time about how poor our education system is are now upset cause something is being done. These are not well informed or intelligent people, probably as a result of the dept of education being in control for so long.

[bug]

State lottery money is supposed to go to schools as well... that's a ton of missing money!!!!

[kimberlymorganadams]

I wonder if closing the dept of education will stop the predatory push of getting high school students to apply for college. I graduated in 2016 and i got bad grades in my advisory class junior and senior year because your homework was to show you applied for colleges and got one approval. This was a class you had to pass. We had what id call propaganda posters in the hallways showing us our future incomes if we went to college vs not. We were pushed so hard to go to college and if not apply for the military.

[thirtyyearcosmetologist]

Shutting down the department of education = interrupting the higher ups from putting the funding in their pockets.

[lechanhu]

I am a teacher, and I believe we can do without the DOE. I don’t see much of a difference without them. All the funding is going to school boards and administration anyway. Teachers are getting laid off based on student enrollment (low enrollment = low funding = cutting teacher positions), but the administration and school boards are never affected. The teacher shortage is increasing classroom sizes, as there aren't enough classrooms for students to enroll in. My average classroom size is 30-36 students. How am I supposed to pay attention to and help 36 students in just 45 minutes?

While administrators and school board personnel ensure they are paid $150k-$400k per year, teachers are struggling with low salaries, living paycheck to paycheck.

IEP meetings are a waste of time and money. I attended one meeting for two hours with nine other people. I made one comment about one student, and the rest of the time was spent just fulfilling the legal requirement for a GED teacher to be present. Meanwhile, I was absent from my class, the school had to pay for a substitute, and 70 other students missed my instruction—all for one student.

I still believe we should have a Department of Education, but it should be run by the state.

[stephfromearth]

"and think two plus two equal purple" this phrase made my day

[bri_like_the_cheese]

All I know is, when I was in school, that ‘no child left behind’ crap turned my A/B blue ribbon school to a C/D average school because kids with 0.00 GPAs were being passed through AND graduating with us who actually busted out butts to walk that stage.

Now, kids don’t give 💩 💩 about school overall, neither do the parents, and teachers are beyond underpaid so why even bother? If anything, teach the non school caring kids agriculture so we have people to do the work Dems claim we don’t have people for.

[charlettmoon]

I am learning to be a teacher and get my credentials, and I was ordered to read an article about how the Education system has failed us and all of the students are stupid and everything is terrible, and then the answer was "Give more money" when they had an actual graph that showed money going up and scores going down.

CLEARLY there is *something else* at work making the kids not learn, but every single stupid article keeps claiming it's because they're the state with the lowest amount of money being thrown at the problem.

I wrote that in my reflection that I don't see how money is going to fix anything and that we just need better teachers that have actually learned stuff, and the teacher reprimanded me, saying that it wasn't the place to talk about if it was right or wrong. These are the professors teaching these absolute garbage teachers, who can't believe it might, MIGHT, be because of them.

[TheWellEducatedArtist]

“What I feel bad for is you!” You took the words right out of my mouth, Amir. As an educator, you could tell that the girl had no clue what the DOE does or how education works. She obviously didn’t take advantage of the “gift of education” she mentioned and learn to do research.

[newax_productions]

Simplest explanation

Ever since the DOE was founded our education levels have declined year over year. That's all that matters.

[jasminewhitehead]

I never understand political things. Thank you for actually taking the time to research this and giving all of us viewers a like middle ground to understand this. I’m so sick of having to worry about if the news I’m seeing is one sided.

[MrsGetOverYourself]

I’m a teacher and I’ve been saying the school systems need to change since I was in junior high, I’m all for it! Thank you Amir for painting a clear picture for people ❤