President Elect: Donald J. Trump

Serious question (I am genuinely asking and not wanting some joke answer that the people will be PeeWee Herman and Ted Cruz): Has there been word on who he is considering for the Cabinet?

Clayton said:

Besides the fact that he's a Young-Earth Creationist that thinks the Pyramids were built to store grain during a famine in Egypt, even though even the Bible doesn't say that, let alone thousands of artifacts recovered that say otherwise?

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Lol point proven.

Anyways, he's a surgeon so I think he'll be something more along those lines. Not an educator.

Mr.BossMan said:

Lol point proven.

Anyways, he's a surgeon so I think he'll be something more along those lines. Not an educator.

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I doubt Trump would make an opponent from the primary a cabinet member.

Mr.BossMan said:

How do you figure?

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Because he's a 100% certified wackadoodle.

re: what Clayton said

Dmitri said:

Serious question (I am genuinely asking and not wanting some joke answer that the people will be PeeWee Herman and Ted Cruz): Has there been word on who he is considering for the Cabinet?

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I don't think there has been any solid confirmations. But rumour is that his cabinet will consist of a lot of people who have been helping him along the campaign trail. Also I'm not sure if these are cabinet positions but this is what was rumoured on Fox News through interviews with his campaigners.

Such as Rudy Giuliani, talked about being the new Attorney General.

Mike Huckabee may have a role.

Chris Christie as well may have a role.

Kellyanne Conway, Chief of Staff.

Newt Gingrich too.

My information is all based on an interview between Rudy Giuliani and Bill O'Reilly. Nothing is solid as of yet.

Captain Hook said:

I doubt Trump would make an opponent from the primary a cabinet member.

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Ya Ben Carson will get a piece of the cake.

Mr.BossMan said:

Ya Ben Carson will get a piece of the cake.

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Sh!t

Relent said:

If Ben Carson becomes secretary of education we're all ******.

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This why the government shouldn't be involved in education. We should abolish the department of education. Give the power back to the parents and teachers!

I... How will that help anything? The parents and teachers can't even do anything with the Governments help

Get rid of CommonCore and bring education back to the States.

Mr.BossMan said:

Get rid of CommonCore and bring education back to the States.

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Fuck no. Thats how you get flat earth creationist bullshit being taught.

Mr.BossMan said:

Get rid of CommonCore and bring education back to the States.

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Having regional standards might be the better option, like New England, Midwest, Eastern Seaboard, South, Southwest, West Coast, for example. Right now, each state has their different standards, so even if you're licensed to teach in Illinois, if you move to say Nebraska you might have to take two or three more classes to meet their requirements. It's insane and makes teaching a less desirable career. Oh, also Texas decides the textbooks for the entire nation. Common Core Math is pretty ridic though. But that's what happens when politicians who haven't been to school in 40 years make the rules.

I like the idea of States, and the people in them, deciding how and what to teach their students.

I like the idea of certain standards set by the Federal Government, however a majority of the schooling should be taught by the States.

Giuliani needs to stay far away from the White House. That dude is just a crazy old man at this point.

Rudy's a badass.

I want him to be the next Attorney General.

Mr.BossMan said:

Rudy's a badass.

I want him to be the next Attorney General.

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Um. No.

I think we should just conquer Gaul.

How about, holy crap, let's, let's actually just, sorta, idk, all ik is this is gonna blow your minds

Have educators who directly know the problems in our education system and experience them daily devise the solutions instead of having state or federal politicians throw more money and dumbass ideas at districts expecting them to work?

Kaane said:

How about, holy crap, let's, let's actually just, sorta, idk, all ik is this is gonna blow your minds

Have educators who directly know the problems in our education system and experience them daily devise the solutions instead of having state or federal politicians throw more money and dumbass ideas at districts expecting them to work?

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Well this might blow your mind too.

Maybe, just maybe, those district educators can...idk...maybe talk to their state representatives? That way problems are handled at the local level? Instead of some big wig sitting in Washington.

CommonCore sucks. It's a terrible curriculum that makes very little sense. I've talked to enough teachers and students, as well as my own experience, to get that.

That being said, the curriculum supplied by the county is terrible too. We waste so much money bringing in consultants with the next big thing in education only to use another one the next year. It's inane.

Personally, I think there should be something of a baseline curriculum from the federal government that can then be modified for use by individual states. That way, it's not an incredibly drastic difference from state to state, and we can keep it all factual.