[emptybottle]

> Is our children learning?

Oh the irony

[d12345m]

In case you missed the reference, this was a quote spoken without irony by a US president.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushism

[slavik81]

> Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

~ George W. Bush, during a campaign speech in South Carolina (2000)

That particular question had probably not been asked much before, but it's been asked more frequently ever since.

[seanp2k2]

Let us not forget Betsy DeVos’ wonderful impact https://www.npr.org/2020/11/19/936225974/the-legacy-of-educa...

[octopoc]

From what I understand her coworkers at the agency were all ideologically motivated to hate her and stonewall everything she did, so it was difficult to make progress. This was her philosophy:

> states and local districts should make education policy, not the U.S. government.

It would be a breath of fresh air for a philosophy like this to be implemented but you would have to fire everyone in the department of education and start over to actually get anything done.