By BRUCE LOWITT
Taking his love for the poorly educated to the next level, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to begin the dismantling of the Department of Education “because everyone in America has the right to be stupid.”
Trump reportedly admitted privately last week to a close friend that his BS degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School “really was BS,” said the friend, speaking on condition of anonymity, “because he told me his father bought it for him. Donald said most of what he does know he picked up from reading Highlights and MAD magazines that still come in the mail for (his son) Barron.”
The president’s decision orders Education Secretary Linda McMahon to cut back the department’s workforce and turn decisions on K-12 education back to the states.
“The way things are going,” McMahon said, “I figure there are maybe a dozen states with schools that’ll be able to handle this. The students in the rest of them, and I don’t think I have to name the states, will finish their secondary education fully prepared to become manual laborers or blue-collar workers in jobs that are rapidly vanishing.”
She said parents who felt their children were most affected by the eventual dissolution of her department would definitely have the opportunity to seek their education elsewhere, “such as religious schools, private schools and tutors, home schooling or by apprenticing with housekeepers, farmhands and so on.”
And all that on-the-job training, McMahon added, “will certainly help them learn a second language, although since English is now the official language of the United States, I don’t know what good that’ll do.”
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