A lot of lazy bureaucrats making 144k/yr.
A lot of lazy bureaucrats making 144k/yr.
But aren't we also talking about how shitty DOGE and OPM are faffing with @AWP @Cookie_ and @Marauder06 ?
Get rid of the ATF and any agency's ability to regulate firearms through administrative regulation. ATF had 6,000 employees/agents. There you go, saved you money and got rid of bureaucrats.
But aren't we also talking about how shitty DOGE and OPM are faffing with @AWP @Cookie_ and @Marauder06 ?
It has a specific meaning but I always think about it as fucking around (fa)-ing. It's pretty synonymous.I don't think I understand the question; is "faffing" a typo for something else?
Make Teachers take a competency test in the subject they teach and I am in.lulz at that IG post
"Average salary" doesn't consider the cost of living and a host of other things. That's a horribly bad metric to use and I'm not shitting on you. That post or take is bad. Teachers where I grew up and a radius of counties had summer jobs to pay the bills.
If anyone wants education reform, education overhaul, support year round schools with teacher salaries to match. Start there. Want to go all in? End daylight savings time.
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Laugh at me all you want, but year round schools with no daylight savings time and this problem solves itself at the local level (the local level is the solution here) within 5 years.
I can't really tell the tone of this. The purpose of the Federal Department of Education is a governance office. They enforce the law. I suppose we can give what they do to the FBI and stuff.
The reason children can't read in Illinois is a Springfield problem. The reason children graduate without being able to do simple math in Florida is a Tallahassee problem.
Associations do the credentialling for schools. Then state Departments of Education are the ones who administer the laws but actually do things. Fuck up really bad, the state takes over your school, fuck up worse? Maybe they take over your district. And I can tell you most of the time that cycle is hard to break out of. So whose at the local level in Illinois for those 30 odd schools? The School board, probably Democrats who want to push things like Diversity, Equity, and inclusion.
There are plenty of other things to do, less welfare entitlements for people who drive escalades and buy beer with their EBT.
I’ll preface this with I don’t care about the department of education. However, I think education is a national security issue. I don’t think the states have a vested interest in National security and thus do not have a vested interest in education. The federal government should imo require a baseline competency, so that states cannot just write off education. I don’t know how to actually enforce this. If our populace is too dumb and fat to fight our wars I don’t think we need them to be even dumber. I think the varying levels of education even by county is insane. Where I live the public schools are enormously better 3 miles away from me than where I live. Like best in the state to middle of the pack or worse.
If we want to remain at all a global power we should be investing in education not stripping it. However I know that the DOE has little to actually do with how things are run or administered at the local level.
I’ll preface this with I don’t care about the department of education. However, I think education is a national security issue. I don’t think the states have a vested interest in National security and thus do not have a vested interest in education. The federal government should imo require a baseline competency, so that states cannot just write off education. I don’t know how to actually enforce this. If our populace is too dumb and fat to fight our wars I don’t think we need them to be even dumber. I think the varying levels of education even by county is insane. Where I live the public schools are enormously better 3 miles away from me than where I live. Like best in the state to middle of the pack or worse.
If we want to remain at all a global power we should be investing in education not stripping it. However I know that the DOE has little to actually do with how things are run or administered at the local level.
I don't think I understand the question; is "faffing" a typo for something else?
It has a specific meaning but I always think about it as fucking around (fa)-ing. It's pretty synonymous.
Synonymous with fucking around.
Don’t worry, we will get to the ATF. Let’s focus on DeptEd for now.A lot of lazy bureaucrats making 144k/yr.
But aren't we also talking about how shitty DOGE and OPM are faffing with @AWP @Cookie_ and @Marauder06 ?
Get rid of the ATF and any agency's ability to regulate firearms through administrative regulation. ATF had 6,000 employees/agents. There you go, saved you money and got rid of bureaucrats.
"We?"Don’t worry, we will get to the ATF. Let’s focus on DeptEd for now.
So I think we are using DOGE as the buzzword for "all reform inside government" now, and that's not correct. DOGE has a specific, tailored, and express purpose- complete with a goal ($2T) and a timeline (July 4th, 2026). No government agency in our history has such a clearly stated task, purpose, and end state.Snip