Facing a backlog of school discrimination cases, the U.S. Department of Education has asked hundreds of employees it fired months ago to temporarily return to work.

A Dec. 5 email obtained by USA TODAY shows the agency ordered a significant portion of staffers in the Office for Civil Rights to come back later this month. In the “return to duty” directive, officials acknowledged they’re facing a sizable caseload of civil rights complaints, and they underscored a need to utilize every resource at the government’s disposal to work through them.

The agency said the request applies to roughly 250 workers who’ve been on administrative leave for months amid legal challenges to their March firings. Julie Hartman, the Education Department’s press secretary for legal affairs, stressed there still aren’t any plans to fully rehire those workers permanently.

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      Oh all the decisions… Why that one?

      In all seriousness though, I suspect maybe it’s what all stupidly rich, old corrupt white women look like?

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    Wow, the rare double whammy of fuck ups!
    I hope the government loses by default on any cases that it can’t respond to in a timely manner.

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        You’d be surprised what a severance package can manipulate a laid off employee into doing.

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          They’ve been out since March.

          Either their package was paid or why would you trust them to pay out of they haven’t already.

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        It says they are on administrative leave. So they do technically still work there is some quasi state. I assume the order would force them to come back or quit. Which is probably the point.

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    This admin has been on point with these headlines. They fire a shit ton and say…oh shit, we fucked up. Total incompetence

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    HAHAHAHA Oh fuck! Jeeeeeezus fuckin’ christ in a sleeper hold, your stylist is high as fuck, McMahon. Please stop destroying the country’s education system and go back to untelevised day drinking.

    As a side note, that video report is on par with Tik Tok (it’s actually not as good) and the corporate news holes have never seemed more pathetic.

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      I can assure you the United States government isn’t in the business of saving money and especially a currently GOP controlled fart box called the white house. The United States is being strip mined. Sold off for parts. We spent the last 30 years starving the beast and now it’s time to kill it and carve it up.

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      Yes, of taxpayer money. But they’ve funneled quite a lot into private pockets.

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    And I’m sitting here in a third world “shithole” country, looking at all this and shaking my head.

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      Which country? I live in Canada and have had angry Americans explain that we live in a socialist hellhole with no rights and a poor quality of life.

      Which was an interesting take since Ive lived in both countries and my life here is way the fuck better than it was down there.

      They live in a delusion down there.

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        Which was an interesting take since Ive lived in both countries and my life here is way the fuck better than it was down there

        Can also confirm. I lived in the US for ~25 years before moving, Canada is so much better. Though I do think we could be even more of a “socialist hellhole” up here

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          It’s a big country friend! We’re all over the place for weather!

          While true we do have a reputation as a frozen wasteland, we have all sorts of weather! For instance in the Maritimes you can get a frozen wet wasteland with the occasional hurricane! The prairie provinces are frozen windy wastelands! And the perennial favorite of BC is a dreary wet wasteland!

          Still wouldn’t want to live anywhere else though.

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            I grew up in Cleveland, on Lake Erie, directly across from Toronto, so I am very familiar with that brand of weather. Years ago I moved to Florida, which was amazing until the MAGAs fucked it up. It’s still beautiful, but a lot of the people, and the entire state government, suck.

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          The short days in winter. Get up in the dark, watch the beautiful six hours of sunlight through a grimy office window, go home in the dark, damp, cold soggy rainy windy weather that passes for winter these days.

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    1 Fire all the people in the Office of Civil Rights.

    2 Deploy a bunch of ICE assholes to violate civil rights.

    3 Receive record number of complaints

    4 Rehire fired people.

    5 Clear caseload.

    6 Repeat step 1

    7 ???

    8 Profit.