If the Department of Education goes away, rich states can still spend lots of money on schools, but poor states might not have enough. That means some kids get great teachers, new books, and nice schools, while others don’t. The government helps make sure all kids have a fair chance, no matter where they live. Without it, some schools might get worse, and some kids might not get the help they need to learn.

There’s no benefit for the common person, only downsides, and America as a whole is gonna get stupider. Rich people like it because it makes them richer, religious zealots like it because they get to push their indoctrination schools, and conservatives like it because conservatism goes up when education goes down. Rich people avoid most of it because they can afford private schooling and have legacy admission on their side

It’s a move to segregate the schools once again both by race and wealth. The rich + white kids will have private schools paid for by everyone. The poor and/or non-white kids will have churches pretending to be schools. Anyone with any kind of disability won’t have school at all.