To the editor: How on Earth did the U.S. win World Conflict II and land astronauts on the moon with out the Division of Schooling (“Trump guts the Education Department with massive layoffs; shock waves reach California,” March 12)? These afraid that schooling will undergo when that federal division is eradicated ought to cease and take into consideration all that the nation completed with out it. Then they should evaluate faculties earlier than that forms was created with faculties now to see that they’re now a lot worse off on each measure of studying. Anybody who cares, actually cares about schooling, ought to cheer the elimination of the division.
F. Stephen Masek, Mission Viejo
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The insurance policies being put forth transcend the quick impact on poor and disabled college students. They embrace permitting taxes to pay for personal or spiritual faculties that are likely to slender what’s being taught. Public faculties have been meant to be levelers, broad and small “d” democratic.
If mother and father can “select” a non-public faculty with no monetary burden, that can certainly imply a return to segregation, already a rising drawback due to constitution faculties. Many fought and died for civil rights in the USA, and college desegregation was a real focus level. So lots of the insurance policies being enacted and proposed are rolling again the small beneficial properties made for equality. Persevering with on this route will definitely take this nation again at the very least to the final century.
Margo Kasdan, Seal Seaside
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How dare President Trump try to only erase the Division of Schooling? We all know he doesn’t give a rattling about any poor child making it to varsity and even highschool commencement. Simply regardless of the wealthy can do is simply effective, proper?
Cheryl Clark, Lengthy Seaside
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To the editor: Possibly it is sensible to chop workers and funds to the Division of Schooling. Since its founding in 1979, People have gotten dumber and most lack any understanding of presidency or the U.S. Structure. Trump’s latest reelection is all of the proof one wants. Maybe with a better-educated citizens, this error won’t occur once more.
Michael Krubiner, Valley Village
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The dumbing down of America has gone too far with President Trump and [White House advisor] Elon Musk making large cuts to schooling. Isn’t it dangerous sufficient that this president has given carte blanche to the world’s richest billionaire to remove social applications for the needy which have sustained tens of millions of the much less lucky through the years?
Joan Speckin, Ladera Ranch
