Americans, how do you feel about abolishing the department of education?

There used to be the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. That's what my old Social Security card used to say, before my wallet was stolen some years ago. If they abolish the Dept of Ed., it won't make the machinery go away. It will be relocated to another department. I mean, they can't just do away with Pell Grants, federal student loans, No Child Left Behind regulations (which are an act of Congress from the GW Bush administration), and other bureaucratic necessities. They have to go somewhere. It's like, Congress can vote to abolish the Veterans Affairs department, but VA hospitals won't disappear into thin air.

edit: Yeah, Congress can vote to end all those programs, but it's very difficult, and a different matter than simply demoting Education from the Cabinet level.

Half of Trumps cronies want to kill the department they are in charge of. Bad idea.

We are about the stupidest of the developing nations. we have to kill all the lawyers.

Bad idea, even with billionaire barbie in charge of it. We can fix the damage she does after 2020. Although I think parents with school aged children should move to democratic controlled states where education will remain strong even with F*ckface Von Clownstick in the white house.

Education is an individual pursuit.

The EPA is also waiting in the gallows! Death by guillotine!

Trump's plan is to reduce the employment of these departments and he will not need Congressional approval to do so. He will weaken these Departments/Programs by means of attrition.

I think it's at least due an overhaul that puts more power back in states' hands. It's been a disaster as is.

They are certainly doing a terrible job. They spend more on education than any other nation, but get results that are worse than many third-world nations. They spend six times more per student than the average private school, but again, they get consistently worse results. Either the department needs to be overhauled, or it needs to be abolished and our educational system privatized.

Dept. of Education is antiquated for its official purposes. It serves mostly as a department of communist propaganda.

Defund and shut down Dept. of Education, or at least modernize it like Sweden and New Zealand.

Only the liberals would think that now that the inner city kids have a chance to mix it up with their kids... :( ) ha ha ha ha

i think shell do fine, we still have 'no child left behind' in effect so it cant get worse