Ben Cline

Wrestling and rasslin’ are different sports.

Wrestling – the kind we learned in phys ed – has roots in ancient Greece. It links us to Plato, Archimedes, Euclid and Socrates.

Rasslin’ is the spectacle on TV. It shows fake fighting and encourages cheating. Rasslin’ brings us Hulk Hogan, Mighty Igor and Undertaker.

It is sad that the U.S. Secretary of Education is a billionaire rasslin’ promoter. Trump assigned her to dismantle DOE.

Congressman Ben Cline recently tagged along with Secretary McMahon visiting Winchester schools, showing his support for MAGA education policies. The theme of the visit was “Returning Education to the States.”

Special education moved to Health and Human Services. The transfer is especially troubling for students with autism. DHHS Secretary Kennedy believes, contrary to science, that childhood vaccines cause autism. His deliberate ignorance guarantees that students will not receive adequate services. DHHS just released a 336-page plan promoting unreliable, unscientific treatments for autism.

Increased responsibility for protection of students’ civil rights transferred to the Department of Justice. Critics expect DOJ to demand adherence to the Trump administration’s policies on transgender students and DEI.

Heather Cox Richardson describes on Substack how Republican educational “reform” efforts transferred millions of public dollars to the private sector.

In the 1950s, when states controlled education, some racist Virginia localities closed public schools, defying court orders to admit Black students equally with whites. Is this what “returning education to the states” means?

Your children and grandchildren will be poorly served by the Trump administration’s changes in education policy. Ben Cline follows the orders of his MAGA masters, and will not help students.