Trump Administration Freezes Billions in Federal Funds at Cornell and Northwestern

[ThreeCardMonte]

35 minutes ago, Wrwest said:

Yea! we don't need to stinking education we are MAAGA and got common sense! Ignorance is no one's friend. As you demonstrate ...

Retired school teacher?

[stupidfarang]

On 4/11/2025 at 10:42 AM, Wrwest said:

We don't need no stinkin higher education research ... we got common sense.

No common sense in the USA, 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024. 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level). From the National Literacy Institute. 

 

[Wrwest]

On 4/16/2025 at 10:27 AM, ThreeCardMonte said:

You have just confirmed no reason for the Department of Education is each state is managing their own affairs.

Actually, the reason for federal government involvement can be traced to American students left to each state were not getting a chance at an equal education (that is a national interest, not limited to any one state). Thus we witnessed the result of segregation and financially continue to witness historically documented education afforded poorer tax support in the various local school districts. A major role of the federal Dept. of Education is to help with finial support of the poorer school districts and overseeing that federal non-discrimination law is carried out. So, yes, there is a need for a national role while leaving most control local.

[JackGats]

Somewhat said: "Harvard is a hedge fund with a university attached to it". There's some truth in that. Universities and their hedge-funds are tax-free, like cults.

 

If I am a right-wing tax-payer, should I be happy with my tax-payer's money going to fund tax-free outfits of left-wing agitprop who already manage billions?

 

Of course this raises the question of why Trump doesn't go after religious cults who enjoy similar privileges.

[Wrwest]

On 4/16/2025 at 10:30 AM, ThreeCardMonte said:

Retired school teacher?

Retired educator. State Lifetime Certified public middle and high school for 16 years. Then last 27 years undergraduate American and European survey courses, retiring as Professor Emeritus.

[Wrwest]

18 hours ago, stupidfarang said:

No common sense in the USA, 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024. 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level). From the National Literacy Institute. 

 

Agreed and I am aware. While I strongly support the idea of each citizen having an equal vote, it does mend just that the problem with a democracy is counting heads and not what is in those heads. Tempting to contemplate term limits and literacy tests (applied to all this time).

[connda]

Why do elites schools which essentially only the uber wealthy can afford to attend need the US government to subsidize it's base of wealthy students. 

[wombat]

On 4/16/2025 at 9:54 AM, Wrwest said:

Yea! we don't need to stinking education we are MAAGA and got common sense! Ignorance is no one's friend. As you demonstrate ...

Tomorrow's worker smurfs have to come from somewhere, the dumbing down of America was only a partial success 

[ThreeCardMonte]

On 4/17/2025 at 10:44 PM, Wrwest said:

Retired educator. State Lifetime Certified public middle and high school for 16 years. Then last 27 years undergraduate American and European survey courses, retiring as Professor Emeritus.

So easy to figure out.

 

You were part of the problem.

 

Did you support drag queens in children’s classrooms?

 

Men masquerading as women in women’s sports?

 

Of course you did.

[ThreeCardMonte]

On 4/17/2025 at 10:44 PM, Wrwest said:

Retired educator. State Lifetime Certified public middle and high school for 16 years. Then last 27 years undergraduate American and European survey courses, retiring as Professor Emeritus.

Were these some of your students?

 

 

[Patong2021]

 

On 4/11/2025 at 1:22 AM, impulse said:

 

Perhaps it's better to do that research at universities that can define what a woman is.

 

 

Ok. And how does that justify the elimination of medical research, engineering R&D,preservation of  the USA's historical record and literature,  and chemical and physical R&D ?

[bendejo]

On 4/10/2025 at 6:28 PM, placeholder said:

All those liberal professors doing agricultural research at Cornell. I hear they're registering cows to vote.

 

Man, that is going to make it real tough on the people who keep track of dead voters.

 

[Airalee]

4 hours ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

So easy to figure out.

 

You were part of the problem.

 

Did you support drag queens in children’s classrooms?

 

Men masquerading as women in women’s sports?

 

Of course you did.

Notice how she doesn’t say what city she taught in?

 

Funny how some of the cities that spend the most per capita have the worst test scores.  Baltimore?  New York City?

 

“Across all grades, 26 percent of students in Baltimore City are proficient in English and Language Arts (ELA), while only 8 percent are proficient in math. Even Baltimore City’s “gifted and talented” learners lag behind. More than half of its advanced learners fail to score as proficient in math, and 29 percent score below grade-level in ELA. If the best and the brightest are performing so poorly, how about everyone else?

As students advance through Baltimore schools, they appear to do progressively worse at math. While 17 percent of Baltimore City schools’ third-graders score at grade-level in math, only 3 percent of students are proficient by eighth grade—and among those 132 pupils, only one scored in the top category as a “distinguished leader,” having exceeded the state’s minimum proficiency requirements. At the same time, the share of all students scoring in the test’s lowest category (“beginning learner”) in math rose from 49 percent in third grade to 68 percent by eighth, with the share of exceptional learners sliding further.

A full 40 percent of Baltimore’s 32 public and charter high schools saw not a single student achieve math proficiency on the 2022–23 exam. But it is not a matter of a few failing schools dragging down the totals. Just 14 schools managed to get half their students to grade-level proficiency in English, and not one reached that milestone in mathematics.”

 

https://www.city-journal.org/article/are-baltimore-students-better-off-staying-home
 

Teachers should be paid for performance.  If their students can’t perform, why should they get fat pensions that enable them to retire overseas?  They shouldn’t.

[Wrwest]

12 hours ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

So easy to figure out.

 

You were part of the problem.

 

Did you support drag queens in children’s classrooms?

 

Men masquerading as women in women’s sports?

 

Of course you did.

Too bad you did not put your money where your mouth is. I would have been financially better off.

[Wrwest]

13 hours ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

Were these some of your students?

 

 

Had to listen to hear if any were from Kentucky ... whew, no! So no, none of these were my students. Just an observation after 41 years as an educator ... I found no sure fire, simple answers. It is as complicated as the number of people dealt with, their DNA, and the environment in which they were raised. As the average US reading level has been pegged at the 7th-8th grade level, I am chagrined but not surprised at the post. All I can say is ... I tried my best to help my students understand what is happening around us by noting what came before bringing us to where we are now. I likened the study of history to reflecting on what was inherited from our family lineage (the eye color, hair color, greater chance for some inherited susceptibility to ill ness (cholesterol issues in my case) and the environment in which we were raised. I suggested to my students that, as we were born in the USA, most would be speaking the predominant English, most would be taught Christianity and that ... had we been born in Japan = Japanese, Shinto-Buddhism and possibly Christianity, as well ... Arabia =Arabic, Islam (the nature/nurture proposition). So, much more but I have bored you enough so I'll stop. Loved teaching but, as I also told my students if you cared and were dedicated ... it would break their hearts.

[Wrwest]

On 4/17/2025 at 4:22 PM, stupidfarang said:

No common sense in the USA, 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024. 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level). From the National Literacy Institute. 

 

Yep, and as we have seen ... the result of their vote.

[ThreeCardMonte]

8 hours ago, Wrwest said:

Yep, and as we have seen ... the result of their vote.

All 75 million.

 

The smart ones (77 million). voted for Trump.

 

And now, a woman of “superior intelligence “ is your front runner.  Jasmine Crockett.

 

 

[Wrwest]

13 hours ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

All 75 million.

 

The smart ones (77 million). voted for Trump.

 

And now, a woman of “superior intelligence “ is your front runner.  Jasmine Crockett.

 

 

You know what they say about the result of "ass.u.me".

[Aviatorhi]

Just freedumb<deleted>ers aligning their education expenses with their actual intelligence. 

[Aviatorhi]

23 hours ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

All 75 million.

 

The smart ones (77 million). voted for Trump.

 

And now, a woman of “superior intelligence “ is your front runner.  Jasmine Crockett.

 

 

Literally swallow a gallon of arsenic you stain on the planet Ameri<deleted>.