NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 4)

Who is on a nationwide tour right now and met with AOC and Bernie earlier today.

Acyn gets his video clips straight from live TV. Unless Fox News is airing reruns, he couldn’t have “fallen for an old one”.

Here’s another link that says it happened on Wednesday. From Jezebel.

and the Waltz quote in the Charon is recent too. One internet point to Smapti.

Rand Paul wants an “NFL of teachers” who will teach classes of 10 million students at a time. They will do this without any federal funding or organization.

Interesting that now they want kids to be taught over the internet. Just a few years ago, everyone lost their god damn mind when that was happening during covid lockdowns.

I’m honestly surprised Trump hasn’t declared that school is no longer mandatory. He could talk about the massively reduced financial burden, millions of teens finally able to enter the workforce, get rid of all the empty schools*, make it the parent’s choice if their kids go to school or not (like vaccines) etc. I assume something like that would be a state level decision, but that’s never stopped him before.

*I have no idea if it’s true, but I heard one of the reasons Trump is trying to get out of leases or sell properties that are un/underused is so that if and when all these gutted departments start getting restaffed, there’s nowhere for them to go, which will cause even more delays.

I believe he thought he was appearing on “INSANE NATION”, not that other show.

Just sneaking in a final word on the Watters/soup thing - nice bluster coming from someone who was whining on-air recently about how funding cuts to where his sister works will make his mom upset at Trump and start hounding Jesse with texts and make some upcoming weekend a pain for the whole family.

I don’t know why anyone would take advice from a man who cheated on his pregnant wife with a coworker 14 years younger than him, and began dating this woman when he let the air out of her tires so she would ask for a ride.

I think maybe Jesse Watters should sit out any discussions of masculinity.

I disagree.
He might learn something.

I assume we’re all aware that the soup thing is what passes as humor on fox.
He seems quite aware of how viral his “real man” tangents have gone.

(disclaimer: I also jumped on the “How can he talk about real men!?” thing in another thread)

I don’t take masculinity advice from a guy who looks like a ventriloquist dummy.

Tell that to the big rig drivers at any truck stop in the land, many of whom enjoy a sandwich and soup for lunch.

WTF does “local teachers enforcing the lessons” mean? Regular beatings?

The serfs get internet indoctrination. The children of the elite ruling class will still attend private schools with small classrooms to get an actual education.

I’m sure that’s coming eventually.

As with most things, The Simpsons predicted it;

Oh no…Jesse’s got rules. :roll_eyes:

I’m surprised that he still has family members who talk to him, given that he’s admitted he’s no longer invited for Thanksgiving.

Well, now he’s just ripping off Key&Peele.

I have heard of a concept where we change the current mode of lecture at school followed by reviewing at home.

The new idea would be lecture at home via video as performed by a person backed by a lot of resources to ensure a high quality of lecture material. Then material review, workbooks, etc are done in the classroom where the local teacher can focus on correction and engaging directly with the students to ensure the material is understood.

I don’t think it’s as aggressively stupid as many other conservative ideas, at least not on the surface. Deep down I imagine the implementation would be to cut teacher workforce in half because “someone else is doing the important work”.

Let them eat donuts…

That can’t be right. Haven’t Republicans been saying for years that the Department of Education should be abolished because it was wrong to have one, central authority determining the curriculum for students all over the country, and that it should be discussed and decided at the local level? I’m curious how they intend to teach millions of students at a time in a way that meets the needs and wants of individual communities.

Gets in the way of teaching children The One True Curriculum. And God