Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the federal shutdown offers evidence that her agency is “unnecessary.”
In a social media post on Wednesday, McMahon said the shutdown has forced agencies to evaluate what work is really needed. She made the comment days after her department started firing hundreds of workers amid mass layoffs across the government.
“Two weeks in, millions of American students are still going to school, teachers are getting paid, and schools are operating as normal,” McMahon said.
I haven’t used my snow blower all summer! That’s evidence it’s unneccesary.
I used to chuckle at how the Confederate Party would often point to the Ant and the Grasshopper - only seeing it as a morality tale to be weaponized against “welfare queens”. They did not realize/conveniently forgot that not only are many Confederates welfare queens, but that even the fable, and its interpretation(s), is a bit more complex than that…
If we pull all state and federal funding from schools then tell all the parents they will be arrested if they leave their kids home alone it would make available jobs and housing!
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frankly waiting for them to talk about ‘school to work conversion pipelines’ and other ways to integrate child labor into the dept of ‘education’.
‘these are work skills!’