SLOCUM: Hasta La Vista, Department of Education?

This article was originally written by Josh Slocum for WokeSpy.

We Americans have a famously short memory; we “forget” news items that are barely two days old. Think you’re immune to that? Are you sure? Try this: do you remember that President Donald Trump suffered two assassination attempts in the summer of 2024? Sure, you might be saying, “of course I remember that,” but that question prompted you. In the immediate aftermath of the first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, people online were widely remarking how it “felt” like the attempted murder had happened “a long time ago” when it had only been a few days.

It seems likely that this is because the 24-hour media/news cycle—which itself is fairly recent, having only become “a thing” in the 1980s with the advent of cable news networks—runs so rapidly now that major events become “not news” in mere hours. We’re so pegged to what we see on our screens that it’s not out of bounds to question if our capacity for memory using our brains has been degraded.

Given that, it’s probably a heavy lift to ask even older readers to remember this: The federal Department of Education was only created in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter. Did you know that? Had you forgotten? It’s true. If you were born in 1950, you spent all your school years in a world that had never heard of a federal “department of education.” Somehow, you learned the three Rs, didn’t you? Somehow, American children managed to get an education without a building in D.C. directing how it was provided.

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