Dear List Members,
I woke up this morning to see a series of astonishing posts on X from Elon Musk, starting with this announcement:
"DOGE is gonna do a complete overhaul of the crumbling DC school system - will be epic!" Followed by: "Taking the DOGE chainsaw to readin, 'riting & 'rithmatic, gonna teach 'em Working for a Living! And NO MORE FREE LUNCH!"
The Mayor and DC Counciil members were caught off guard by this lastest, sweeping move by DOGE. A follow-up tweet from Musk gave a link to a
press release from Education Secretary Linda MacMahon announcing that in the early hours of this morning, April 1, President Trump had signed an Executive Order giving his administration immediate and complete control of the entire DC public school system.
The President took to his own social media platform, Truth Social, to blast the DC public school sytem: "It's a total failure, all these schools -- they're all sh*tholes, turning out nothing but losers and suckers. We're wasting TRILLIONS of dollars on the whole system. Time to fix it, as ONLY I CAN FIX IT."
That was followed by another flurry of tweets on X from Elon Musk, announcing the following actions:
"All DCPS teachers and adminstrators are fired, effective today. They have one hour to clear out their desks."
"All school buildings will be auctioned off to developers for conversion to condos and office buildings, and other private uses, including a Trump hotel and a WWE sports arena. We have already lined up some of the finest American steakhouses and seafood restaurants, as well as luxury retailers -- think Tiffany's -- to open businesses on the ground floor. of the converted former school buildings. And of course, there will be Tesla dealerships."
The Education Secretary's press release included
a link to a 47-page document detailing how the Trump adminstration will "transform public school education in DC into a hands-on practical work experience:
"All children from as young as age 5 to age 18 will be trained in useful life-skills by working in factories, workshops, assembly lines, and Amazon warehouses, turning out American-made manufactured goods, cheaply and efficiently -- items such as low-cost clothing, running shoes, computer chips, health and beauty items, furniture, lawn and garden equipment, firearms -- all things American want and need, and at wages lower than those of Chinese children -- and they will graduate, having learned the old-fashioned American values, such as...
- speed
- manual dexterity
- punctuality
- diligrance
- humility
- respect for authority"
The press release also included this statement on the current state of DCPS:
"DC schools now are just indoctrination factories, pumping children full of anti-American sentiments and left wing propagranda. In history class they learn only one side of the civil war and they end up with a wholly negative view of the very efficient labor system of the Antebellum South; in science class they are taught the hoax of climate change; in geography classes they are using outdated maps referencing the non-existant "Gulf of Mexico" and incorrectly labeling the Donbas region of Russia as part of Ukraine."
Another area of significant savings to the taxpayer, the statement said, will come from the elimination of the "ridulously extravagent school lunches" that Musk said are now standard fare in DC's public school cafetrias: "They're wasting millions of your hard-earned dollars feeding kids Iranian caviar, Nova Scotia smoked salmon, and French escargot, all washed down with Cuervo Gold from Mexico -- often served with a side of fentanyl smuggled in by the drug dealing immigrants who make up a sizable percentage of DCPS employees.
But no more. Under the newly announced school budget and work-study schedule, a ten-minute lunch break will be taken on the factory floor, with one single serving of of American grown & GMO-modified grain-based gruel per child. Any child who says, "Please sir, I want some more" will learn the lesson embedded in that great English classic, Oliver Twist: Children who try to get more than their due or seek advatage, not based on their own hard work, but on a false sense of entitlement or claim to pity due to their race, class, gender or age, will no longer be coddled or promoted but will be subject to "swift and sure RERIBUTION in the form of Corporal Punishment."
Posted by:
Peggy Robin
Cleveland Park Listserv Moderator
ClevelandPark+Owner@groups.io
April 1, 2025