Department of Education GONE: Now what?
Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater
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🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome politics by faith. Thank you for being here. It hasn't been signed yet, right? We haven't seen it fully yet. But word is that tonight, Donald Trump will sign an executive order ending the Department of Education. Now, technically it has to be done through an act of Congress, but there can be some dismantling within that effectively eliminates it it moves some things over to different departments and effectively eliminates it once and for all. |
| 0:28.1 | Tomorrow on my series X-M radio show, we're going to talk to Linda McMahon. |
| 0:31.4 | Look forward to that. |
| 0:32.5 | First cabinet member who will work her way out of a job, but not because of her failure, but because of her great |
| 0:38.8 | success, there will be no more job there. The state of our education system in America is |
| 0:46.1 | abysmal. I'm open for another adjective, if you have one. I'm going to go with abysmal, |
| 0:55.6 | abysmal in getting worse. |
| 1:03.8 | We mentioned this morning that Harvard now has a remedial algebra class for its undergrads. |
| 1:09.0 | Harvard has remedial algebra. |
| 1:13.0 | We talked about a study from the Financial Times. |
| 1:18.6 | It was the percent of 18-year-olds who have difficulty focusing, thinking, concentrating, and learning new things. |
| 1:21.8 | It skyrocketed around the year 2012. |
| 1:25.4 | That would be the widespread use of smartphones. |
| 1:29.3 | Same thing with share of adults who struggle to process information. |
| 1:36.2 | This is clearly caused by technology and iPhones. The other day we're talking about the importance of building things in this new MAGA revolution. And it's such a saying that for the last decade or so, |
| 1:42.4 | our smartest minds dedicated their lives |
| 1:44.3 | and genius to hijacking the dopamine systems in our brains to take our attention away from |
| 1:50.1 | things that actually mattered. |
| 1:51.2 | We're all addicts now. |
| 1:53.0 | And we have less and less ability to focus, think, and learn. |
| 1:58.7 | Phones are a heck of a drug. |
| 2:01.7 | Now, it's not really people's inability to concentrate because kids can concentrate on a |
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