On Thursday (20 March 2025), “Trump signed an executive order 'to begin eliminating' the Department of Education” was the news coming from the US mainland (Yahoo!News, sg.news.yahoo.com). I thought he was crazy, insane, gone loco. Until I read the news in its entirety and did my own teacher thinking.
I was enlightened
when Mr Trump said:
"I want every parent in America to be empowered to send their child to
public, private, charter, or faith-based school of their choice. The time for
universal school choice has come.”
Mr Trump explained:
“As we return education to the states, I will use every power I have to give
parents this right.”
In an earlier
news, “To Sign Executive Order To Abolish The Department Of Education” (19
March 2025, Fox News, foxnews.com), Diana Stancy,
Louis Casiano, Patrick Ward, Edward Lawrence pointed out that “Trump (was)
preparing to majorly revamp Department of Education as math, reading scores
show stunning lows” (see image above, bottom).
Trump had claimed
during the election campaign yet that the Educ Dept was full of "radicals, zealots and Marxists."
There is another
major consideration. Harrison Fields,
the White House Principal Deputy Press
Secretary, told Fox News:
"Over the
past four years, Democrats have allowed millions of illegal minors into the
country, straining school resources and diverting focus from American
students."
The Democrats
are the enemies of American education?!
Linda
McMahon, whom the US Senate
voted to lead the agency on March 3, issued a memo… “outlining her support for
the Trump administration's plans for the department” and that she would oversee
a "new era of accountability" in the agency's final days.
Moms
for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice joins 'Fox & Friends' to discuss President
Donald Trump preparing plans to dismantle the Department of Education as the
nation's report card shows continuing decline.
A White House fact
sheet states that the move will "turn over education to families instead
of bureaucracies. Trump and proponents of eliminating the department have long
said the agency has failed American students.
"NAEP
(National Assessment of Educational Progress) scores reveal a national crisis —
our children are falling behind," Harrison
Fields, the White House principal deputy press secretary, told Fox News.
"Over the past four years, Democrats have allowed millions of illegal
minors into the country, straining school resources and diverting focus from American
students."
Tara
Suter says (20 March 2025, “Trump
To Sign Order Thursday Dismantling Department Of Education,” Yahoo!News, sg.news.yahoo.com):
"Coupled with
the rise of anti-American CRT and DEI indoctrination, (education) is harming
our most vulnerable," he added. "President Trump's executive order to
expand educational opportunities will empower parents, states, and communities
to take control and improve outcomes for all students."
A Filipino teacher,
I ask: “Why would not an intelligent American President, noting ‘the rise of
anti-American CRT and DEI indoctrination,’ employ its presidential power ‘to
empower parents, states and communities to take control and improve
(educational) outcoes for all students’”?
Done!@517
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