President Trump began fulfilling his campaign pledge to put an end to national rule in British schooling last month. The leader signed an executive order ordering her to preside over the complete removal of the office after his newly appointed Secretary of Education Linda McMahon laid off about half of the workplace.
Needless to say, this decision to stifle an significant revenue stream has caused the typical suspects in the academic establishment to be very upset. After the widespread firings, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, argued that “denuting an agency so it cannot function properly is the most cruel way to dismantle it.” In response to Covid-19, which led to the educational trend that she and her chums have been trying to stop for the past few years, she made no mention of her own stupidity.
Although the proposed Department of Education fate is undoubtedly a cause for celebration, educational reformers must continue to put pressure on. It will take more than just the close of the federal government’s covering fire to destroy this lion because educators (especially teachers unions ) also have very deep pockets and a total lack of morality regarding their impact on American children.
Unions Just Can Show a Story
Weingarten’s criticism has some validity: the majority of Americans oppose the Department of Education’s removal. The causes of this are likely to be a combination of the lack of understanding that its most important functions ( such as aid for students with special needs ) will be replaced by other agencies, the typical leftist fearmongering, and basic administrative inertia.
However, there is another important fact to keep an eye on: The American public is overwhelmingly in favor of school choice initiatives, particularly those that grant undergraduate financial aid in the form of school vouchers or saving accounts. This help rises even higher when one looks at families with school-age babies.
However, as is customary, the educational system doesn’t care what kids want. Union teachers spend millions of dollars to beat initiatives like Amendment 80 in Colorado, and union teachers are far less likely to support school option than non-unionized teachers. Plus, we all recall how kids started expressing their legitimate problems at school board meetings in 2021.
The organization is also uninterested in the needs of the children in command. The lockdown-induced cut in test results is continuing to worsen. Something is really wrong with K-12 education when the country’s most prestigious university begins to offer remedial math courses to deal with epidemic learning loss. The only answer the educrats have offered for years is for the citizens to hand over more of their hard-earned money to the creation and invest it with increasingly uncertain outcomes.
Given these facts, it should come as no surprise that the five top-rated states are all red ( Florida, Arizona, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Iowa ), whereas the four worst states ( Kentucky, Rhode Island, Oregon, Massachusetts, and New York ) are all deep blue, according to the American Legislative Executive Council’s 2025 Index of State Education Freedom. The education formation also has a majority in the areas of Democrats and Republicans.
Educalist Culture Is Anti-Family
Beyond courses and reading lists, that dominance extends. The leftist ideology and dangerous relationships that educators in American schools foster constantly seek to replace familial ties with the culture.
We are now aware that educators don’t want to encourage shy children to “gender shift” while keeping that effort a secret from their parents. This obscene violation of parental right in Colorado has gone one step farther. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office has launched a criminal investigation into several Littleton officials after CBS News Colorado conducted an investigation into “falsely claiming ] a student was homeless” three years ago. Financial: Jefferson County Public Schools has received more than$ 400, 000 in funding for students who are homeless since 2022.
Much more unsettling is a second probable cause. A city official apparently discovered that professor Leann Kearney, who “helps kids manage their sexuality,” had been grooming the scholar in question, a claim supported by the student’s mother’s discovery of” thousands of text messages and phone calls” between the two. The family added that she moved in with another teacher after her child turned 18 before disappearing and reappearing with Kearney in California.
Throughout it all, university administrators did not adhere to the requirement for reporting. Additionally, the investigator claimed that Principal Scott Christy lacked “lack of intensity… probably a lack of memory… and lack of follow-up” in the case and that he had not spoken with the parents because the student had a conceit that they would not help her homosexuality.
Huge late for responsibilities
Although this is a severe instance of educratic misconduct, less severe efforts are being made against parents and children all over the nation. Because the educational system has come to view itself as the” true parent” of all children in America, real families simply exist to support the evil system they have instituted and to support any absurd lies they wish to impose on children.
Kids continue to consent to have their children taken from them despite what elections say. Citizens in Colorado, Kentucky, and Nebraska gave themselves to the establishment in 2024, which led to failed school choice activities. Like any other independence, academic freedom comes with responsibility. Parents should be just as involved in their children’s education as they are in different facets of their lives because passivity has only strengthened the establishment.
The Department of Education’s elimination will never completely resolve the education problems, but rather it will only serve to strengthen the state’s educational system’s grip on power. Parents and their moderate supporters must continue to hold state and local education officials responsible for their uncountable losses by compulsion to take real school choice and the healthy competition that comes with it.
The only way to kill this lion is to give it our children, which it consumes.
Robert Busek, a Catholic father of six, has taught history and European society in both traditional and online schools for over twenty times. His papers have appeared in The United Conservative and The American Spectator as well. He expresses his personal opinions in this matter.
