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Podcast: Macroaggressions
Episode: #530: Department Of (Mis)Education
Description: The easiest decision Donald Trump will have to make during his second term is whether or not to shut down the staggeringly inept Department of Education. This experiment in scrambling kids’ brains has gone on for nearly half a century, and the results are overwhelmingly catastrophic, even by government standards. The teachers aren’t doing much better either.
With the states in control of the education system, will the notorious Common Core curriculum be removed before it destroys another generation of children? What happens to charter schools when the Feds are out of the picture? Will the price of c...