22 March 2025

A Teacher & Filipino In The Philippines, I thought US President Donald Trump Was Insane When He Abolished The US Govt Dept Of Education. Look Who Looks Insane Now!

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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