President-elect Donald Trump has a vision for education that revolves around a single goal: to rid America’s schools of perceived “wokeness” and “left-wing indoctrination.”

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@lemmy.world
    62·
    6 days 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@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      67·
      6 days ago

      Teacher: “Slavery was bad.”

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

      • prole
        30·
        6 days ago

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

  • Guy Dudeman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    6 days ago

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

  • stringere@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    5 days 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.

  • ArdMacha@lemmy.world
    26·
    6 days 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

    • SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
      20·
      6 days 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.

    • prole
      11·
      6 days 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.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        5 days 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.

        • prole
          4·
          5 days ago

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

  • Joeffect@lemmy.world
    26·
    6 days 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

    • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
      13·
      6 days 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.

      • dion_starfire@lemm.eeEnglish
        14·
        6 days 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@lemmy.world
          4·
          6 days 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…

      • Joeffect@lemmy.world
        4·
        6 days ago

        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…

    • prole
      4·
      6 days ago

      No state oversight of curriculum, so ripe for indoctrinating.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 days 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

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    5 days 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.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 days ago

    I can only imagine how far into the future this will eventually sink the republican party. But let’s take a look, can’t do much about it since we’re too stupid to see how dumb the whole electoral college thing is. California holding a miniscule number of representatives so if you live in California, you basically got no voice. But if you milk cows in Montana, then you can force Florida to have the ten commandments in schools.

    You can only push people so far. Specially if we get invaded by China and suddenly all normalcy goes out the window.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 days ago

      I was with you till the last sentence. No one can invade the US. It’s literally impossible for any country to do, or even every country. Unfortunately for us and the rest of the world, having a 2500 mile front on one side and a 3500 mile front on the other makes us untouchable.

      The only weapons that any country could use directly against the US with its current military are ICBMs and I’m pretty sure that is the one weapon no one wants to use. Except Trump, cause he’s a moron.

      • AlotOfReading@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 days ago

        It’s not impossible to invade the US. It’s been done several times already, for example 1942 and 1812. Mexico, which shares the same oceanic borders, was invaded by France in 1861 and of course the entirety of the Americas was essentially invaded by colonial settlers.

        It’s unlikely for other reasons, but nothing about it is impossible.

        • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
          2·
          4 days ago

          It is flat out a logistical impossibility for any nation to do currently, or anytime soon. No one except the US has a deep water Navy, and no one that has an army that we couldn’t immediately steamroll with the National Guard, also has the craft to transport said army across an ocean.

          Currently, and for the foreseeable future, it’s impossible, and not worth even considering as a possibility.

          Oh, and if you’re referring to the Japanese “invasion” of 1942, that wasn’t an invasion. They never landed an army, neither did the Nazis, for the exact same reasons I just specified. Sure they had deep water navies. We promptly sank their navies so that we couldn’t be touched.

          The last country that dared to touch our shit was Russia, before that Iran. It didn’t go well for either of them.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    6 days 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.

  • blindbunny@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    Great another president that wants to start wars against ideas and facets of culture 🙄

  • mumblerfish@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 days 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.