To be honest, we're a little disappointed to see that the Department of Education still exists. At least it seems to be making progress, according to Christopher Rufo, who says that the department has canceled $600 million in training teachers in "diverse ideologies."
"Training materials included inappropriate and unnecessary topics such as Critical Race Theory; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI); social justice activism; "anti-racism"; and instruction on white privilege and white supremacy," the statement reads.
BREAKING: The Department of Education has canceled $600 million in "teacher training grants," which do little more than promote left-wing race and gender ideologies. It's time to shut it all down. pic.twitter.com/qdkVvZTaH3
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) February 17, 2025
It looks like all of the "nonprofit" contractors who gave presentations on the works of Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo will have to find another grift. The spigot has been cut off.
Examples from the grant applications included "building historical and sociopolitical understandings of race and racism to interrupt racial marginalization and oppression of students in planning in instruction relationship building discipline and assessment." If teachers want to "interrupt racial marginalization" they could start by teaching their students how to read and do math proficiently.
I voted for this
— Evan Barker (@evanwch) February 17, 2025
Get rid of it all
— Hope in Christ (@SimpleOn_e) February 17, 2025
$600 million.
This is the way
— the bald libertarian (@freedombunkr) February 17, 2025
This is awesome getting indoctrination out of schools
— Old School Eddie (@Old_SchoolEddie) February 17, 2025
I feel like people fail to appreciate how much money that. That’s $600 million in good and services that no longer is being taken from society without any compensatory production being made.
— Benton Howser (@bentonhowser) February 17, 2025
Education not indoctrination.
— Elon Made Me Join (@ElonJoin839) February 17, 2025
Simple concept.
Huge amounts of time and money are poured into this through "education service districts" as I'm sure you know. Important to remember it's not just the school districts.@doge_ed
— 🎯🔫👌 (@gurgle_io) February 17, 2025
Way more than $600M in savings because that does not count the deleterious effects of the programs had then not been cut.
— Karl Scheibner (@kfscheibner) February 17, 2025
It is sort of like saying that we saved $100 for bullets that were supposed to go to criminals.
Former teacher here. These trainings (CRT) were a big part of why I, and many others, left education.
— Sam Olivia (@SoftTenacity) February 17, 2025
Thank goodness! Not only will it save us money, but students will have less stupid stuff poured into their brains.
— Debagain (@DeborahGinn10) February 17, 2025
Burn it all to the ground and salt the earth.
— AGuyinTexas (@a_guyin) February 17, 2025
Shut down the whole DoE. There never was a need for it. It was created as a tool to dumb down Americans and so far, they have succeeded.
— Implicit Truths (@CrayCrayBlocker) February 17, 2025
Joe McCarthy was right. The communists were already embedded in government and academia.
This is good stuff. Glad to see it go as this only benefitted the politically connected and those who were willing to indoctrinate kids rather than educate them. This was pure unadulterated garbage.
— Damn Dirty Yankee In NC (@pelham_blue_SG) February 17, 2025
Imagine what 12 years of indoctrination-free education could turn out?
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