If there’s a national shortage of engineers, how come Trump‘s getting rid of the Department of education why is he trying to make our students dumb and stupid?.
How long will states continue schools when they may run out of money to pay the teachers and the schools for that matter .
All good thoughts, Dan. But to me, it still misses the target.
Let me introduce myself. I graduated with as an electrical engineer from a major university with a "cum laude" GPA. Actually, "Computer Science" but the University hadn't managed to create a department like that yet. It was during the Viet Nam war, so I was drafted (not long before the draft was eliminated) into the Army, shunted into the infantry, and two years of my life were wasted. (This part of my thumbnail bio is slightly off target, but I wanted to get it out there.)
With some difficulty, I was able to have a career in software development anyway. As I moved up the ladder, it has always bothered me that the big money, fast cars, and manor-sized houses went to people who sat around walnut tables and thought up jingles for TV commercials -- and other useless pursuits. In the later stages of my career. I started to rub elbows with corporate management directly. I confirmed my belief that almost all of them were good at just one thing: corporate politics. Other than that, they were a waste of oxygen.
My point is: Yah! Education is thoroughly broken in America, but a huge load of the blame for the disintegration of American leadership should be pinned on the stark fact that we simply reward all the wrong things. We reward the crooks and liars, not the engineers and scientists.
I think this trend really took off when America elected the star of Bedtime for Bonzo rather than a nuclear engineer who also happened to be a really great human being. Trump has now cast in titanium that anyone can be elected president ... IF they are corrupt, contemptible, and a power-crazed egomaniac.
Me too. But in my case, my parents kind of let me raise myself so I was in in library whenever it was open. (The librarians sometimes had to show me the door when closing time came around.)
Techies are their agendas and picks of immigrants . Mire lazy people wAsting food sitting at desks doing nothing ....but AI shit (that's destroying our minds) but no don't let the hard workers Mexicans that contribute labor so we can eat . And Mexicans work for way less money than these techies . What happens when there's no one to grow ,water or pick our fields and the techies can't eat ...but they'll have money ? Doesn't anyone really see the cause and effect of all this ? Besides Mexico's a stones throw away but the UK is half way across the earth. Common sense says leave the techies over there working remotely in there country's and let the hard labor guys contributing to our food sources here . We need to strengthen our bonds with Mexico . They then can help their families in Mexico . And there's plenty of resources in Mexico , not in UK
With the "free trade" agreement, Canada & Mexico are part of the same economy as the US. It makes sense to strengthen our economy together, not counter-productive artificial barriers.
As far as the techies working remotely, there are enormous benefits of working together in technical fields.
So there has to be a comprimise, a balance between foreign workers in manual jobs and those in tech fields.
Exactly .. walls are never good they only cost money to build and eventually cost money to take down...but building a bridge says we can compromise ....and not tear it down but expand it for the good of productivity
Well said. Public education seemed fine when I was a child and adolescent. An Air Force brat, I moved from state to state and system to system with no problem, learned a lot, and went on to higher education. I feel less positive about current education, but problems perceived or real have not kept my children and grandchildren from receiving an excellent education. There have always been naysayers and book banners but also ways to offer the education our children merit.
Hasn't the jobs of local school boards across the country recently become ensuring that nothing in school libraries will help students learn to think? Hasn't most of the reporting on education over the past few years been about the hundreds of schools now banning books? Doesn't it seem that in places like Texas and Florida helping kids learn to be democratic citizens has fallen out of favor?
I grew up in a coal mining town where quality education wasn't the first priority. (Sports was. We seldom won the game but we always won the fight after.) I graduated from a major university with an engineering degree anyway.
Galileo was a major contributor to science in spite of the fact that the great power of that time (the church) discouraged science as much as they could.
With the right attitude, you can climb the mountain.
Most Americans can’t afford a college education to gain the skills required for a well paying tech job. Instead of helping Americans with their education, the GOP wants to eliminate loan forgiveness to keep Americans poor and unemployed while encouraging foreigners who got educated for free to come take jobs here. That’s the sad truth.
What are you trying to push? That article came out on Jan 3. It was a paper surrender by the judge. Yes, he was convicted, but there was no penalty whatsoever. (The legal description of the conviction: “unconditional discharge”.)
I thought you were claiming that Trump lost in some way when he was convicted as a felon. Au contraire mon frère. It made him more of a martyr in the eyes of the slugs who worship him and it cost him nothing but legal fees (which the slugs provided) and a few hours of time.
New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan will sentence convicted felon President-elect Donald Trump on his 34 convictions of falsifying business records on January 10, 2025. Justice Merchan said he would not sentence President-elect Trump to jail. I hope the punishment will be enough for President-elect Trump to realize crime does not pay.
WaPo, Shavna Jacobs, updated January 03, 2025, 4:14 p.m. EST.
The republican goal with regard to our public schools
is to not only end the Dept. of Education, the GOP intends to end all public education and make all schools strictly private—meaning all parents will have
to pay tuition in order to send their kids to school.
If you think that’s bad, there’s more. In AZ there’s talk among republicans of putting schools in shopping malls, and requiring only a high school education for teachers.
As for the Musk/Ramaswami dust-up over American
students not being particularly interested in learning, there are several things going on. 1. Bannon, Loomer and others are feeling threatened by Elon’s recent ubiquitous presence in DT’s life. 2. Clearly everyone isn’t on the same page policy-wise. 3. Getting
republicans on the same page policy-wise is probably
a lot like trying to herd cats.
On one hand, republicans don’t want a well educated population, because well educated people don’t readily accept misdirection, lies or the fascism that requires them. On the other hand, our country needs well educated teachers, engineers, physicians, etc. in order to compete with other powerful countries.
As I recently wrote somewhere, Trumpism enables
narcissism. Some people call narcissistic men, “alpha
males.” I call them bullies on steroids. I guess you
could more specifically call it a Putinesque Personality disorder, or a right-wing, morbidly extreme, narcissistic fascism.
Any way you choose to look at it, one thing is
perfectly clear, we are on the cusp of what is sure
to be an entertaining, but destructive and nerve wracking clash of egos. And unfortunately for us,
Isn't it sad to see a party deciding that the accomplishments of this nation are nothing? Attacking education and educators, trashing our progress and leadership...just disgusting...and so very uninformed. Don't worry - we are steady with you, Dan Rather! Thank you
Dan this is a great article. Thank you. Trump has created a civil war within his mega Republican party. I don't see any resolution to solve this division. Trump has to choose between billionaires running this country or Bannon and the rest of the mega Republican party who wanted all immigratants deported from this country. This is want Trump ran his campaign on. Yet he has billionaires tweeting on X,
saying that Americans here are incompetent and to lazy and they want to bring immigratants of a hire intellect to do the job. This is a huge conflict of interest.
On a another note, I do agree our education system has failed. It should of been dealt with years ago. You have children from inner cities not receiving a good education.
The public schools are over crowded. If government officials wanted to solve this problem they built more schools and libraries with our taxpayers money instead of building restaurants or apartments.
I think this "civil war within his maga Republican party" is largely Trump simply doesn't understand. He signs on to whatever his slightest impression thinks might be a good idea, without the least sliver of critical thinking.
He is unknowingly manipulated by those around him, often in totally contradictory directions. They just need to appeal to his vanity.
Fundamentally, he is insecure, and needs praise & thinking that he important to function. Take that away, and he is a driveling idiot, which he doesn't fail to show frequently.
The problem is how do you manipulate him so he moves in the best (least destructive) direction.
There are some in his entourage and the world stage who seem to more or less master it, but it is not impervious to his irratic behavior.
If there’s a national shortage of engineers, how come Trump‘s getting rid of the Department of education why is he trying to make our students dumb and stupid?.
How long will states continue schools when they may run out of money to pay the teachers and the schools for that matter .
All good thoughts, Dan. But to me, it still misses the target.
Let me introduce myself. I graduated with as an electrical engineer from a major university with a "cum laude" GPA. Actually, "Computer Science" but the University hadn't managed to create a department like that yet. It was during the Viet Nam war, so I was drafted (not long before the draft was eliminated) into the Army, shunted into the infantry, and two years of my life were wasted. (This part of my thumbnail bio is slightly off target, but I wanted to get it out there.)
With some difficulty, I was able to have a career in software development anyway. As I moved up the ladder, it has always bothered me that the big money, fast cars, and manor-sized houses went to people who sat around walnut tables and thought up jingles for TV commercials -- and other useless pursuits. In the later stages of my career. I started to rub elbows with corporate management directly. I confirmed my belief that almost all of them were good at just one thing: corporate politics. Other than that, they were a waste of oxygen.
My point is: Yah! Education is thoroughly broken in America, but a huge load of the blame for the disintegration of American leadership should be pinned on the stark fact that we simply reward all the wrong things. We reward the crooks and liars, not the engineers and scientists.
I think this trend really took off when America elected the star of Bedtime for Bonzo rather than a nuclear engineer who also happened to be a really great human being. Trump has now cast in titanium that anyone can be elected president ... IF they are corrupt, contemptible, and a power-crazed egomaniac.
Welcome Dan Rather!!!
I could have lived in the library if my parents would have let me!💝
Me too. But in my case, my parents kind of let me raise myself so I was in in library whenever it was open. (The librarians sometimes had to show me the door when closing time came around.)
Andrew Jackson was not the president in 1867.
No the GOP does not have the dogmatic rigidity of the Democrats. It's healthy.
So why has Trump sent even life long Republicans (Cheney, Pence, Mitt Romney) into the outer darkness?
Trump's lower sphincter has GOT to be getting sore from being kissed so much by now.
So why does so much of the population not have access to decent health care & quality education ?
How is that healthy ?
Techies are their agendas and picks of immigrants . Mire lazy people wAsting food sitting at desks doing nothing ....but AI shit (that's destroying our minds) but no don't let the hard workers Mexicans that contribute labor so we can eat . And Mexicans work for way less money than these techies . What happens when there's no one to grow ,water or pick our fields and the techies can't eat ...but they'll have money ? Doesn't anyone really see the cause and effect of all this ? Besides Mexico's a stones throw away but the UK is half way across the earth. Common sense says leave the techies over there working remotely in there country's and let the hard labor guys contributing to our food sources here . We need to strengthen our bonds with Mexico . They then can help their families in Mexico . And there's plenty of resources in Mexico , not in UK
With the "free trade" agreement, Canada & Mexico are part of the same economy as the US. It makes sense to strengthen our economy together, not counter-productive artificial barriers.
As far as the techies working remotely, there are enormous benefits of working together in technical fields.
So there has to be a comprimise, a balance between foreign workers in manual jobs and those in tech fields.
Exactly .. walls are never good they only cost money to build and eventually cost money to take down...but building a bridge says we can compromise ....and not tear it down but expand it for the good of productivity
We also have a shortage of physicians
But not hospital administrators.
Well said. Public education seemed fine when I was a child and adolescent. An Air Force brat, I moved from state to state and system to system with no problem, learned a lot, and went on to higher education. I feel less positive about current education, but problems perceived or real have not kept my children and grandchildren from receiving an excellent education. There have always been naysayers and book banners but also ways to offer the education our children merit.
Hasn't the jobs of local school boards across the country recently become ensuring that nothing in school libraries will help students learn to think? Hasn't most of the reporting on education over the past few years been about the hundreds of schools now banning books? Doesn't it seem that in places like Texas and Florida helping kids learn to be democratic citizens has fallen out of favor?
Unfortunately there are retrograd states, as well as county-based funding that results in many receiving underfunded education.
It seems to be hitting the areas most in need adequate education.
I grew up in a coal mining town where quality education wasn't the first priority. (Sports was. We seldom won the game but we always won the fight after.) I graduated from a major university with an engineering degree anyway.
Galileo was a major contributor to science in spite of the fact that the great power of that time (the church) discouraged science as much as they could.
With the right attitude, you can climb the mountain.
Most Americans can’t afford a college education to gain the skills required for a well paying tech job. Instead of helping Americans with their education, the GOP wants to eliminate loan forgiveness to keep Americans poor and unemployed while encouraging foreigners who got educated for free to come take jobs here. That’s the sad truth.
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What are you trying to push? That article came out on Jan 3. It was a paper surrender by the judge. Yes, he was convicted, but there was no penalty whatsoever. (The legal description of the conviction: “unconditional discharge”.)
The corrupt and powerful won again.
"The corrupt and powerful won again." I agree 120 percent Porter. What is that you read into that article I shared friend ?
I thought you were claiming that Trump lost in some way when he was convicted as a felon. Au contraire mon frère. It made him more of a martyr in the eyes of the slugs who worship him and it cost him nothing but legal fees (which the slugs provided) and a few hours of time.
Nope, not at all. Thx for the reply.
New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan will sentence convicted felon President-elect Donald Trump on his 34 convictions of falsifying business records on January 10, 2025. Justice Merchan said he would not sentence President-elect Trump to jail. I hope the punishment will be enough for President-elect Trump to realize crime does not pay.
WaPo, Shavna Jacobs, updated January 03, 2025, 4:14 p.m. EST.
The republican goal with regard to our public schools
is to not only end the Dept. of Education, the GOP intends to end all public education and make all schools strictly private—meaning all parents will have
to pay tuition in order to send their kids to school.
If you think that’s bad, there’s more. In AZ there’s talk among republicans of putting schools in shopping malls, and requiring only a high school education for teachers.
As for the Musk/Ramaswami dust-up over American
students not being particularly interested in learning, there are several things going on. 1. Bannon, Loomer and others are feeling threatened by Elon’s recent ubiquitous presence in DT’s life. 2. Clearly everyone isn’t on the same page policy-wise. 3. Getting
republicans on the same page policy-wise is probably
a lot like trying to herd cats.
On one hand, republicans don’t want a well educated population, because well educated people don’t readily accept misdirection, lies or the fascism that requires them. On the other hand, our country needs well educated teachers, engineers, physicians, etc. in order to compete with other powerful countries.
As I recently wrote somewhere, Trumpism enables
narcissism. Some people call narcissistic men, “alpha
males.” I call them bullies on steroids. I guess you
could more specifically call it a Putinesque Personality disorder, or a right-wing, morbidly extreme, narcissistic fascism.
Any way you choose to look at it, one thing is
perfectly clear, we are on the cusp of what is sure
to be an entertaining, but destructive and nerve wracking clash of egos. And unfortunately for us,
we’re going to be caught in the metaphorical
cross-fire.
Isn't it sad to see a party deciding that the accomplishments of this nation are nothing? Attacking education and educators, trashing our progress and leadership...just disgusting...and so very uninformed. Don't worry - we are steady with you, Dan Rather! Thank you
Dan this is a great article. Thank you. Trump has created a civil war within his mega Republican party. I don't see any resolution to solve this division. Trump has to choose between billionaires running this country or Bannon and the rest of the mega Republican party who wanted all immigratants deported from this country. This is want Trump ran his campaign on. Yet he has billionaires tweeting on X,
saying that Americans here are incompetent and to lazy and they want to bring immigratants of a hire intellect to do the job. This is a huge conflict of interest.
On a another note, I do agree our education system has failed. It should of been dealt with years ago. You have children from inner cities not receiving a good education.
The public schools are over crowded. If government officials wanted to solve this problem they built more schools and libraries with our taxpayers money instead of building restaurants or apartments.
I think this "civil war within his maga Republican party" is largely Trump simply doesn't understand. He signs on to whatever his slightest impression thinks might be a good idea, without the least sliver of critical thinking.
He is unknowingly manipulated by those around him, often in totally contradictory directions. They just need to appeal to his vanity.
Fundamentally, he is insecure, and needs praise & thinking that he important to function. Take that away, and he is a driveling idiot, which he doesn't fail to show frequently.
The problem is how do you manipulate him so he moves in the best (least destructive) direction.
There are some in his entourage and the world stage who seem to more or less master it, but it is not impervious to his irratic behavior.