Trump Plans to Make Education Great Again — by Killing School Wokeness

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“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next,” the apocryphal saying goes. Given this, it’s notable that the “Left” has long controlled American education. (E.g., Democrats outnumber Republicans among college professors by almost nine to one.) But this left-wing schoolroom domination and indoctrination are going to end — if President-elect Donald Trump has his way.

In fact, Trump has announced plans that are meant, in essence, to make education great again. These include purging wokeness from colleges and eliminating the unconstitutional Department of Education.

As The Wall Street Journal reported Monday:

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to remake education in the U.S., pledging to exert more control over funding and classroom lessons, to curb what he views as left-leaning tendencies at universities and even to dismantle the Department of Education.

If his White House delivers on those promises, more families could get money to send kids to private school. Schools would face pressure to limit accommodations for transgender students and to end some initiatives aimed at addressing racial disparities [read: effecting anti-white/Asian discrimination in education].

The goals are at once ambitious and controversial.

“There are a lot of very smart people who are very excited to get into positions where we can actually start making change happen,” said Tiffany Justice, a Trump ally and the co-founder of the conservative parents group Moms for Liberty.

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