REALLY Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here

Update:

I was reading a critique of the Dems campaign strategy and it said that rather than focusing on Project 2025, the presumptive president was laying out his plan that mirrors it. Here's what it says about K-12 public education:

- Parents of all public schools can vote to remove a principal at any time.

- School principals will be elected by parents each year.

- End tenure for teachers and professors.

- Increase merit pay for teachers.

- Universal, national school choice for all school systems in the country.

- Bible study and school prayer will be instituted in public schools.

- All schools receive additional funding to "harden" them against school shooters and invaders.

- $10,000 per child tax credit for home schooling. 

- Teacher certification will be changed and governed by a new federal agency that will only grant certifications to teachers who "embrace patriotic values."

I'm not even listing higher education actions. 

Sigh. 

end of update

 

It's just a fascinating thing how in just about four hours the presidency, Senate, and House of Representatives were decided. Neat and clean, just like that even though there was a larger number of new voters, most of whom were registering as Democrats. 

I'm hoping VP Harris does not concede any time soon. I mean, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. 

It is also interesting that several states - including Arizona - okayed abortion measures/update to state constitutions and yet somehow those voters didn't vote for Harris in the same big numbers. 

But the world doesn't stop. And we all now have a front row seat to what comes next January. Promises made and I suspect, promises will be kept. When you are that self-absorbed and vindictive, your enemies list comes first. 

As for this blog, I've already said why I am here. I want people to have documentation of what has been happening in Seattle Public Schools. As well, as the history of our country unfolds, what happens when Project 2025 dismantles the Department of Education.

From the NEA:

Project 2025’s overall goal is to strip the federal role in education down to “that of a statistics-gathering agency that disseminates information to the states.” (Even this role would be undermined by Project 2025’s plan to prohibit collection of demographic information needed to document inequities.)

Since 1965, Title I has provided critical financial help to high-poverty schools and districts. Project 2025 plans to eliminate Title I funding entirely. In its place, states will receive no-strings-attached block grants with zero regulations or oversight.

Project 2025 also calls for the end of the Head Start program, which served 833,000 children in fiscal year 2022, and would end universal free school meals that provide food security to millions of children.

If adopted, according to PEN America, “Project 2025 would ramp up book banning, and impose a greater climate of censorship and self-censorship on schools and college campuses, and silence educators and students–all on a national level.”

As state anti-LGBTQ+ laws have multiplied, Project 2025 promotes discrimination against LGBTQ+ people in every arena on a national scale. It seeks to deny the existence of transgender people, undermine the rights of same-sex married couples and rescind federal civil rights protections wherever and whenever possible—including public schools.

Project 2025 promises to scrap these and other Title IX regulations saying, “The next Administration should abandon the change redefining ‘sex’ to mean ‘sexual orientation and gender identity’ in Title IX immediately across all departments.”  

Project 2025 rails against what it calls “the propagation of transgender ideology,” equating it to "pornography." The plans says educators and public librarians who disseminate books and other materials that address transgender identities should be registered as sex offenders.

Here's the direct link to the education section of Project 2025.