Baby With Bathwater

The drive to kill off the Department of Education has a lot of merit, but it's using artillery to kill a mosquito.

Something that's lost out there in the ravings is the existence of trade schools and small colleges providing educations for people who are out there working with those educations.

The reason they're out there working is independent colleges need to show that 70+ percent of their students take that education to work.

That means they pay their student loans back, kids.

It also means they don't have classes in underwater inverted naval gazing.

These schools aren't the problem, but their funding is on the block alongside the land-grant universities who have been and continue to abuse the system.

Worse, no state is going to help out a small college in favor of its land grants should DoE be eliminated and the student loans go away.

But I have been reading the more detailed statements of desired policy and it doesn't have shit to do with higher education.

They're trying to kill off the DoE to get K-12 bullshit stopped.

But nuking the whole thing would be like eliminating the entire military because the Coast Guard isn't doing their job.

Or, better analogy, nuking the Coast Guard for failing to interdict the flow of drugs and not replacing their other duties like light houses, buoys and search and rescue.

There's stuff that we want to keep.

On the plus side, Trump and the DOGE boys have to convince congress to make most of the sweeping changes they're after and there's no appetite in the senate to wipe the entire department off the face of the earth.

The executive, after all, executes the law; all of them.  People tend to forget that.