President Donald Trump’s issuance of a flurry of executive orders during the first few weeks of his second term addressed education in a big way. One of these EOs strikes down radical woke indoctrination in America’s school system, including anti-Americanism, racial propaganda, and gender ideology.
Among the many pro-family groups cheering Trump’s actions, Libs of TikTok enthused: “For far too long, woke activists have been allowed to infect our school systems…. Trump aims to dismantle anti-American propaganda being fed to your children and to provide them with a rigorous education.”
In ordering the removal of such indoctrination, this executive order “also reinstates the 1776 Commission, which was implemented during Trump’s previous term ‘to help RESTORE our constitutional republic,’ but was removed under an executive order by President Joe Biden,” (Epoch Times).
The 1776 Commission’s report was “a direct response to the 1619 Project,” which portrayed the United States as an inherently racist nation and claimed that the main reason for the American Revolution was to preserve slavery. The 1619 Project was a product created by activists in partnership with the New York Times, and much of its content was later debunked by actual scholars of American history. Nevertheless, it stimulated the proliferation of CRT, and has been widely used as credible history in many U.S. schools.
Most observers agree that the Trump EO is just the beginning, and much work needs to be done. The Libs of TikTok pointed out that “schools and organizations across the nation will attempt to challenge or defy this major change. Some will attempt to hide their intentions while others will openly oppose and violate it.”
Many believe the president has no intention of “making law” through his education EOs, but that, in the short term, his purpose is to counteract the far-left indoctrination that has permeated the U.S. school system for decades, funded in large part by the federal government. It’s the president’s much emphasized wish to end this unconstitutional intrusion.
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