Deadly weapons make situations more deadly?

I dunno, doesn't add up.

This happened in Dulles–just west of Washington, D.C.–not Dallas, TX.

Do you know what parents did before the DoE? Put their kids in the exact same school system they do now. The DoE started in 1980. The idea that Washington should suddenly have that much influence over a state/county-run public school system that existed since the 1600s was controversial.

Make the case for the DoE by all means, but reading this thread is blowing my mind. The DoE is barely older than I am and judging by tuition inflation and student debt it has left a few things to be desired in its short life.

I still don’t understand how this would close any schools or universities. The public school and state university system has been here since the 1600s. Other than e.g. military academies, what schools do the feds run? Not many. They slosh a lot of money around, but it isn’t clear to me that it’s been a net positive in the 40 years it’s been active, judging by effects on tuition, student debt, etc.

There’s a lot of dumb rhetoric (and people) behind some of these calls to end the DoE, but the schools survived for 300+ years before it existed.

Why would ending a 40-yr-old Federal department end the 400-yr-old colony/state-based public school system?

Of all the departments that could be eliminated, it’s only after Homeland Security in terms of one with a previous status quo in living memory.

That’s the exact opposite of the situation. The tax code is so outrageously complicated and obtuse that only the rich can afford the sort of accounting to take advantage of it.