Summary

Donald Trump’s education agenda centers on eliminating “wokeness” and “left-wing indoctrination” in schools.

His plans include banning lessons on gender identity and structural racism, abolishing diversity offices, and barring transgender athletes in girls’ sports.

He aims to cut federal funding for schools defying his policies and eliminate the U.S. Education Department. Trump also proposes “patriotic education,” a nationwide ban on transgender athletes in women’s sports, and new teacher credentialing standards.

Critics argue these policies are politically driven, undermine education, and lack evidence. Many initiatives would face legal and procedural hurdles.

  • @Garyx23x
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    631 month ago

    I love the use of these vague terms of “wokeness” and “left-wing indoctrination” which can change meaning any time to fit whatever narrative is trying to be pushed 😑

    • jwiggler
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      691 month ago

      Teacher: “Slavery was bad.”

      Republicans: “We need to end this indoctrination of our children.”

      • @[email protected]
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        311 month ago

        This isn’t an exaggeration, this literally has been happening already before the GOP controlled the entire federal government.

        • Omega
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          91 month ago

          Anything that makes “white kids” uncomfortable or “guilty” is being banned which 100% includes the mention of slavery.

          Or maybe parents shouldn’t tie their identity to traitorous states that murdered Americans so rich people could own black people.

    • tired_n_bored
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      1 month ago

      Someone used the same tactic in the 30s in Germany

  • Guy Dudeman
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    391 month ago

    Anytime you see the word “woke” or “wokeness” from a conservative, replace it with “kindness”.

    • Omega
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      61 month ago

      Sometimes it’s just intelligence. They’re very proud of their ignorance and hate.

  • @Joeffect
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    261 month ago

    Can’t wait to have the public school system completely dismantled in favor of charter schools… You know those for profit, less regulated, fund stealing… Alternative schools to public ones that they have been trying to push for years now… They also cost money who would of thought

    • @[email protected]
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      141 month ago

      Also, those public schools have to take your kids.

      Charter or Private Schools? Nope. If your kid is a dumbass or dicks around too much and gets shitty grades sorry, homey. We don’t want your kid. Oh, there’s no other schools? Tough titty.

      • @[email protected]
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        141 month ago

        The flip side of this is charter schools aren’t required to take special needs kids, either. Oh, your kid has Down Syndrome or is Autistic and needs additional staff or effort? Sorry, they’re not welcome here. They have to go to the public school. The public school doesn’t have enough funding to afford Special Ed teachers because it’s all been vouchered away to charter schools? Tough titty.

        Public schools work because the money pays for things like Special Education and Gifted and Talented programs. Charter schools can’t afford either, so they don’t provide either. Even ignoring the possible pitfalls of for-profit motives, you’re going to end up with a weakened education system because without collective funding, all education must be geared towards the statistical average.

        • @Joeffect
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          41 month ago

          And without the department of education they won’t track who is falling behind or not… So it must be fine…

          Also Reading scores are falling and thats exactly what they want… Can’t stay informed if its not given to you on 10 sec clips… Which is why we are where we are…

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        Let’s not forget about how he wants to end the department of education… Lets just get segregation back even though you are going to kick out all the people of color from this country… Say goodbye to financial aid to make it harder for poor people to get educated when you have to pay for your school…

        Even if only Half of the shit he wants to do gets through it’s already too much …

        I’m already sick of hearing about him again multiple times a day… I was so relieved when he wasn’t president the last time and we heard almost nothing about Biden… It was refreshing…

  • @ArdMacha
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    261 month ago

    In a hilarious way if he destroys the federal department of education he can no longer tell states what they are allowed to teach

    • @[email protected]
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      201 month ago

      Republicans aren’t actually pro small government/freedom. That’s all just opposition rhetoric. When they are in power, it’s as much government in your face as possible.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 month ago

      Balkanization is really one of the only possible paths out of this, I feel like.

      But then we’ll all have crazy far right nutjobs doing cross-border raids, because they’ve shown for decades that they are incapable of running a state and keeping it solvent without help from the (now defunct) federal government.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 month ago

        Theyd only be raiders so long as nobody decides to wipe them out, and frankly speaking theyd probably get whittled down by most folks over time. Hell I could see raiders from sub-urban areas being the basis for a polis system emerging in red states.

      • @CharlesDarwin
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        21 month ago

        Can all the assholes move to Idaho? Seems it is their kind of “freedom”.

      • @Today
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        11 month ago

        Vulcanuzation?

        • @[email protected]
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          41 month ago

          Google and Wikipedia are your friends if you know how to use them. Maybe learn a bit about Yugoslavia.

  • @[email protected]
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    111 month ago

    He aims to cut federal funding for schools defying his policies and eliminate the U.S. Education Department.

    He aims to use funding as a cudgel to coerce schools to do his bidding while also aiming to remove the cudgel he plans to use to coerce schools to do his bidding.

  • @CharlesDarwin
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    101 month ago

    I’m sure the dumbasses that voted for this asshole will be able to make a connection between priorities like this and lowering the price of eggs and bacon.

  • Diplomjodler
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    91 month ago

    No more diversity, equality and inclusion. Instead there’ll be discrimination, inequality and exclusion.

  • @Sanctus
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    81 month ago

    We are already completely indoctrinated into capitalism at school. We dont learn of our country’s wrong doings to their own civilians. We dont learn of any other method of governing even just to inspect and question it. We are already in capitalist indoctrination camps. The left does not actually exist in this country because you can’t do anything that potentially harms profits if you aren’t an elite.

  • @Sam_Bass
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    41 month ago

    He gets more moronic daily

  • @[email protected]
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    Great another president that wants to start wars against ideas and facets of culture 🙄

  • @mumblerfish
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    41 month ago

    Oh, they tried to do this in sweden. They have promissed an examination of “wokeness” in higher education. They celebrated a university forbidding “any conversation a passer by could interpret as political”. They have not started it yet, and they just changed the guy that is supposed to be the anti-woke minister in this context after the summer. So we will share this journey.

  • @captainlezbian
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    31 month ago

    Let me guess, next he’s going to force math lessons to teach children how much it costs the public to care for the disabled