Donald Trump has signed an executive order to
dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. Trump said that "the U.S. spends more money on education by
far than any country", adding that students rank near the bottom of
the list. Trump accused the agency of "breath-taking
failures" and vowed to return the money it controls to individual
states. Trump also accused the agency of indoctrinating young people with
racial, sexual and political material.
I recently saw a posting on Facebook that said that 21% of Americans are illiterate (52 million adults); 54% of Americans can't read beyond the level of an 11-year-old (141 million adults); 57% of Americans have no education past high school. America ranks 36th in the world for literacy levels and white US-born adults, are the largest group with low literacy.
In the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, Hilary Clinton the Democratic Party nominee for President, called Trump supporters a "Basket of Deplorables." Professor William T. Kelley who taught Donald Trump at the Wharton School of Business and Finance, said that, "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had."
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I know a couple of people who live in the USA. They tell me the same about the education standards in the country.
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