To the editor: How on Earth did the U.S. win World Battle II and land astronauts on the moon with out the Division of Training (“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 achieved with out it. Then they should examine 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 embody permitting taxes to pay for personal or spiritual faculties that are inclined to slim what’s being taught. Public faculties had 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 downside due to constitution faculties. Many fought and died for civil rights in america, and college desegregation was a real focus level. So lots of the insurance policies being enacted and proposed are rolling again the small features made for equality. Persevering with on this course will definitely take this nation again not less than to the final century.
Margo Kasdan, Seal Seashore
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How dare President Trump try to simply erase the Division of Training? 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 tremendous, proper?
Cheryl Clark, Lengthy Seashore
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To the editor: Possibly it is smart to chop employees and funds to the Division of Training. 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 is not going to 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 packages for the needy which have sustained thousands and thousands of the much less lucky through the years?
Joan Speckin, Ladera Ranch
