# More attacks on the Dept. or Education **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 16, 2026, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-attacks-on-the-dept-or-education/1030949 "2026-06-16T20:09:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-attacks-on-the-dept-or-education/1030949/1 "2026-06-16T20:09:45Z")
The Department of Justice will take on enforcement of civil rights in education, while the Department of Health and Human Services will oversee special education. [We are doomed](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-moves-oversight-special-education-171508595.html) Todd Blanche will be in charge of civil rights education. RFK Jr. to head up special education. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-attacks-on-the-dept-or-education/1030949/2 "2026-06-16T20:10:38Z")
Fuck Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-attacks-on-the-dept-or-education/1030949/3 "2026-06-16T20:11:25Z")
You could not pick two worse people to do this. When MTG starts to look reasonable, we have a very, very serious problem. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-attacks-on-the-dept-or-education/1030949/4 "2026-06-16T20:17:33Z")
I agree. And all of this is brought to us by our local Republican voters. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-attacks-on-the-dept-or-education/1030949/5 "2026-06-16T21:40:13Z")
Trump campaigned on getting rid of the Department of Education, putting all education completely into the hands of the states with no federal oversight whatsoever. That way, red states can feel free to indoctrinate people into MAGA stuff, push Evangelical Christian values, discriminate as much as they want, etc. He found to his dismay that he can’t actually get rid of the department. It takes an act of Congress, including 60 votes in the Senate which the Republicans can’t accomplish even if they were completely willing to support it and not worried about its impact on their reelection. So instead, he’s doing all he can to make it as powerless and irrelevant as possible. It’s sort of like having an employee you can’t fire, so instead you have them doing the most miserable, menial, absolutely useless tasks that you can assign them. Basically, the next best thing to actually firing them. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-attacks-on-the-dept-or-education/1030949/6 "2026-06-16T21:58:30Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Trump campaigned on getting rid of the Department of Education, putting all education completely into the hands of the states with no federal oversight whatsoever. Except for the federal oversight he wants, of course. I’m sure he’ll still enforce civil rights violations against white people. Like the violation of their right to have a DEI-free education. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-attacks-on-the-dept-or-education/1030949/7 "2026-06-16T22:02:13Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Except for the federal oversight he wants, of course. I’m sure he’ll still enforce civil rights violations against white people. I imagine he’ll put that in the hands of the Department of Justice, as this recent article suggests. But what else is new? The DOJ is nothing but a bunch of thugs meant to attack Trump’s political enemies while under his control. And the DOJ and DHS are certainly not above completely breaking the law in doing so. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-attacks-on-the-dept-or-education/1030949/8 "2026-06-16T22:35:46Z")
It’s only going to be a matter of time before segregation will once again be, at the very least, decriminalized. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-attacks-on-the-dept-or-education/1030949/9 "2026-06-16T22:38:20Z")
A matter of time? The Cleveland Municipal School District has been segregated for most of my lifetime. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2026, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-attacks-on-the-dept-or-education/1030949/10 "2026-06-17T23:06:36Z")
MANDATORY segregation, that is. I never knew until a few years ago that between the wars, California had some segregated schools for the Chinese and Japanese communities.