The conservs have always had a hard on for teachers and in the last decade it has gotten to pathetic heights….for example that a/hole Bannon attacks teachers as terrorists…
Steve Bannon labeled America’s teachers “terrorists” while speaking from Charlie Kirk’s massive memorial service in Arizona on Sunday.
The former Trump adviser made the comment during a broadcast on the right-wing network Real America’s Voice, as his co-host Gina Loudon was celebrating Kirk’s “throwback ideas,” such as “young marriage” and having “lots of children.”
When Loudon noted that the late right-wing activist’s old-school ideas “are not popular on college campuses right now,” Bannon pushed back with a startling statement.
“Well, I actually think they are popular,” Bannon, 71, said, “but it’s not the way those kids—look, from kindergarten all the way up, they are essentially, you know, a third of the teachers are terrorists that are trying to form them.”
Terrorists? Seriously? What kind of deluded moron makes such an assertion?
A MAGA twat….that’s who.
More on the sad state of education….
The average reading and math scores of American high school seniors fell to their lowest levels in two decades in 2024, according to new national data released last week.
The results, from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), found that, on average, reading scores for 12th graders were 10 points lower in 2024 than they were in 1992, when the test was first administered, and that math scores fell to their lowest levels since 2005, when the math assessment began.
The test, administered by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), which is part of the US Department of Education, assessed roughly 19,300 12th-graders in math, 24,300 in reading and 23,000 eighth-graders in science between January and March of last year.
The report found that 35% of seniors “performed at or above” the NAEP’s “proficient” level in reading, and 22% were at or above that level in math.
It also stated that 45% of 12th graders scored below the NAEP’s “basic” level in math, marking a five percentage-point increase from 2019. In reading, 32% of students scored below the basic level, which was a two-point increase from 2019
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/sep/20/high-school-students-scores
What can we expect with the assault on education and the whole social media BS….
I think we need public education and good teachers that make the slow mind students think for themselves….it seems that the GOP is doing all it can to kill public education….I do not agree one iota with any of their plans for schools…..
While the White House’s fight with elite universities such as Columbia and Harvard has recently dominated the headlines, the feud overshadows the broader and more far-reaching assault on K-12 public education by the Trump administration and many states.
The Trump administration has gutted the Department of Education, imperiling efforts to protect students’ civil rights, and proposed billions in public education cuts for fiscal year 2026. Meanwhile, the administration is diverting billions of taxpayer funds into K-12 private schools. These moves build upon similar efforts by conservative states to rein in public education going back decades.
But the consequences of withdrawing from public education could be dire for the U.S. In our 2024 book, “How Government Built America,” we explore the history of public education, from Horace Mann’s “common school movement” in the early 19th century to the GI Bill in the 20th that helped millions of veterans go to college and become homeowners after World War II.
We found that public education has been essential for not only creating an educated workforce but for inculcating the United States’ fundamental values of liberty, equality, fairness and the common good.
https://theconversation.com/why-america-still-needs-public-schools-260368
I support education completely and thanks to the GI Bill after Vietnam most of my education was paid for (of course that was a long time ago before college became big business and prices went out of sight)
Education should be a vital component of preparing our children to face this world and help the next generation to do the same.
Any thoughts?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
When some idiot claims that one third of the teachers in a country are terrorists, that should be taken as an extreme warning of things to come in the USA.
Best wishes, Pete.
Any time education is seen in a bad light should be a warning…..chuq