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myrapdaddy's avatar

Nope. Much work needs to be done if our children are going to be well educated.

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Tacy West's avatar

I would rather count the ways our elected president is making life better for the poor in this country of which I am one. Saving billions at dept. of education is a win for me. You need to check your facts and get more positive about our life. Worrying about physical fitness is very negative. He is a man of retirement age. I am 80 years old and I appreciate that earned age situation.

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Michael bass's avatar

Personally I would really appreciate information on the plan regarding collection of foreign funding data as that cannot be ignored (of course) nor left to the states to monitor, as it is a critical area of the DoE even though the current Deterrent Act is currently flawed regarding the crucial (NON) dating of foreign funding to US colleges that anyone working with and reporting the data will appreciate.

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Kim Hamlin's avatar

The newly released JFK files makes clear that the CIA had infiltrated all unions, including teacher's unions. Along with USAID, and many hundreds of NGOs, you have to know that money laundering was a prioritized goal, if not the only one. Everything is run through these systems to hide from the White House and the taxpayers. So, if it was happening in the 60s, it's untelling how far the tentacles go now.

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Ricardo Cabezas's avatar

If they’re trying to get rid of fraud wasting abuse, why don’t they stop letting Trump play golf every other day? I mean it’s so ridiculous. The hypocrisy.

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Kim Hamlin's avatar

That's not true, you are a troll.

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Ricardo Cabezas's avatar

And you think it’s OK for the president to spend as much money as he does playing golf every other day and not knowing what the fuck his cabinet is doing with war plans, etc?

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Michael bass's avatar

Sorry but having just had a president who spent more than half his whole term, on vacation at his beach front residence and the other half stumbling around in some sad state, leaving the country to a hopeless VP to make do, we now have a savvy informed sharp Pres who even in his sleep, is 1000 times more effective than that sorry incompetent, inept mob were in their WHOLE TIME IN OFFICE.

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Ricardo Cabezas's avatar

I appreciate your reply! now give me your background… how old are you? and what have you done in your life to be able to speak on this subject?

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Ricardo Cabezas's avatar

I am not a troll. I am a real human being and a retired military police canine officer. Who the fuck are you?

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Kim Hamlin's avatar

First, you need to watch your mouth. I too am a veteran, and I received pay for it just like you did. I'm certainly not going to erect a statue of you, if that's why you told me that. It's irrelevant who you are or what job you did. You are on a public forum embarrassing yourself.

Second, if you have proof of all of these golf outings on the taxpayer's dime, I would absolutely want those shared here. He owns the damn courses he golfs on, and whatever time he takes to do it is also irrelevant, considering everything he's already accomplished in just 2 months. The other reason it's irrelevant is because we don't pay him! He's doing it for free, which is totally beyond me! Especially when ingrates like you have nothing more to do than to insult him and accuse him of things he hasn't done. Whoop de do, you're a K9 vet! Why don't you act like one?! I'll be waiting on that proof.

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Tacy West's avatar

What a dumb arguement.

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Ricardo Cabezas's avatar

Tell me how much you think it cost for the president to be able to golf every day on the taxpayers dime? You better Google it and get your fax right because I will blast you with the true facts whenever you’re ready.

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Suzan Ball's avatar

Thank You openthebooks.com for all your important and vital/essential work!

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Pat KCMO's avatar

Fewer students would need government education funds if GRANDPARENTS were allowed to rollover their REQUIRED MINIMUM DISTRIBUTIONS into 529 accounts.

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Robert's avatar

Does she know that she works for the president?

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Mark Martin's avatar

Wow how much money the government has wasted. To give money to china no red flags at all there.

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Stella’s pop's avatar

Incidentally, when one sees that the teacher unions are not primarily labor unions but rather political unions you’ve cracked the code.

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

I like that you have a multiple choice exam in the pic. IMO these tests are worthless. Unless a student can define in his/her own words what the answer is, how can you know whether they know the material or not? with a 4 choice exam, you always have 25% chance of guessing right. I know someone who passed a Spanish test without knowing the language!

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cat's avatar

True re multiple choice. It's possible to pass a test like that just by analyzing the answers. For example, if two answers are about the same, eliminate both and then analyze the remaining to see what's obvious to eliminate next.

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Stella’s pop's avatar

As designed, multiple choice is easier on the administrator. The student’s performance is of secondary consideration. That would take to much time to process

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Ed Haase's avatar

The total exposed today equals about the same as one golf day for President Trump. Of course there is a lot more social value from a good day on the links.

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Ruth H's avatar

Troll

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Chuck's avatar

It “raises the question.”

It does not “beg the question.”

I’d offer you a tutorial on the stark difference between the two phrases, but you might not learn as well if I do your research for you.

This isn’t the only thing you’ve gotten wrong, of course, but it’s the first one I wanted to use to put you through n check.

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Chuck's avatar

“…put you through n check” in my post is certainly garbled. But that was a spellcheck/auto-fill problem as I intended to write “put you in check.”

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

Just proves that the education in the US is at a very low range. Being a foreigner and English my third language, I too notice that most Americans (and lately also a lot of people from my former country) seem to be quite ignorant when it comes to spelling. I appreciate when someone corrects me, because I want to honour the language!

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Dave Hamilton's avatar

Are you guys involved with DOGE?

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Hairy Toddler's avatar

If they ain't - they ought'a to be.

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