That's A Wrap

 They set up a school room inside the White House just so they could tear it down. 

In a move that surprised absolutely no one, the demonstrably dumbest "president" this country has ever had signed an executive order last Thursday that would dismantle the Department of Education. The expectation that this photo-op and getting children to "sign-along" with the head MAGAt would somehow drive a stake through the heart of "wokeness" illustrates once again just how desperate this guy is to be seen as "a very stable genius." 

By attempting to limit access to knowledge that threatens the historical imperfections of our great nation, The Second Trumpreich is trying to paint over reality with the thinnest of whitewash. Much in the same way that Bomont, Utah banned dancing, the MAGAts truly believe that they can make slavery disappear. They can make the rotten portions of the American apple disappear. They can make "woke" disappear. 

This would be a much more effective purge if the Department of Education actually set curriculum. 

They don't. 

That is a duty that is already almost completely controlled by state and local governments. All of that critical thinking is going to go on n spite of the efforts of the set designers who painstakingly created one of the very few classrooms in which the convicted felon has every found himself. 

In Ray Bradbuy's ironically banned novel Fahrenheit 451, clever people just took the ideas from books and kept them in their heads. Burning the pages of those books did nothing to the ideas printed on them. Thoughts, history, stories and lives live on inside the hearts of those of us with hearts and minds to hold them. 

Will it be difficult to be without federal funds for things like Title I? Yes, especially in school districts that are deeply affected by poverty. The fact that I teach at one of those schools that will be impacted by the disappearance of money that we use to fill in those holes and blanks where others might have a tax base that can fill those voids. Those of us in the education biz are familiar with The Williams Act, in which the California State Department of Education was compelled to compensate schools in areas affected by poverty such that their materials and facilities would be on a par with those of the schools that had what they needed to do their job. 

The job of education. 

That's your state Department of Education. I am not foolish enough to imagine that the carrion won't come crawling after those next, but at least we have a firewall of policy and infrastructure that might take us through the darkness. 

Before they start tearing down actual classrooms.