A Plan to Get Divisive & Radical Theories Out of Our Schools
By: Donald J. Trump 45th President of The United States of America
Thank you President Trump for your very fine article that is so totally right on! You are correct as to the danger that is CRT and the 1619 project. It is right to question the morals, lack of values, and even the patriotism of those who advocate for CRT/1619. We need to resist those in our schools and throw out school boards that use this blame America first material. We do need more local controls of our schools and a return to 1776 American history along with MLK Jr’s dream. Content of character rules!
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
A Plan to Get Divisive & Radical Theories Out of Our Schools
COMMENTARY
As a candidate, Joe Biden’s number one promise was to “unite” America. Yet in his first months as president, his number one priority has been to divide our country by race and gender at every turn.
There is no clearer example than the Biden administration’s new effort aimed at indoctrinating America’s schoolchildren with some of the most toxic and anti-American theories ever conceived. It is vital for Americans to understand what this initiative would do, what drives it and, most importantly, how we can stop it.
For decades, the America-blaming left has been relentlessly pushing a vision of America that casts our history, culture, traditions, and founding documents in the most negative possible light. Yet in recent years, this deeply unnatural effort has progressed from telling children that theirhistory is evil to telling Americans that they are evil.
In classrooms across the nation, students are being subjected to a new curriculum designed to brainwash them with the ridiculous left-wing dogma known as “critical race theory.” The key fact about this twisted doctrine is that it is completely antithetical to everything that normal Americans of any color would wish to teach their children.
Instead of helping young people discover that America is the greatest, most tolerant, and most generous nation in history, it teaches them that America is systemically evil and that the hearts of our people are full of hatred and malice. Far from advancing the beautiful dream of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. -- that our children should “not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character” -- the left’s vile new theory preaches that judging people by the color of their skin is actually a good idea.
Teaching even one child these divisive messages would verge on psychological abuse. Indoctrinating generations of children with these extreme ideas is not just immoral -- it is a program for national suicide. Yet that is exactly what the Biden administration endorsed recently in a rule published in the Federal Register aimed at inflicting a critical race theory-inspired curriculum on American schoolchildren.
The rule explicitly cites the New York Times’ discredited “1619 Project” as a motivation. The Times has described the goal of its endeavor as the “re-education” of the American people, and the project even includes a lesson plan that encourages students to practice “erasing” parts of the Declaration of Independence. The Biden rule also directly cites a left-wing activist and leading proponent of critical race theory whose textbook states, “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.”
This is what the Biden administration wants to teach America’s children.
The Department of Education rule stems from an executive order Biden signed on his first day in office. Biden’s order abolished the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission I created to honor America’s founding principles, and reversed an executive action I took to stop these depraved theories from being imposed upon federal employees in workforce training sessions.
Thankfully, most Americans oppose this insanity. The left has only gotten away with it until this point because not enough parents have been paying attention and speaking up. But that is quickly changing. From Loudoun County, Va., to Cupertino, Calif., parents are beginning to make their voices heard against the left-wing cultural revolution. What they need now is a plan to actually stop it.
Here are the reforms that every concerned parent in America should be demanding.
First, every state legislature should pass a ban on taxpayer dollars going to any school district or workplace that teaches critical race theory, which inherently violates existing anti-discrimination laws. Inspired by my executive order last year, Florida, Texas, North Carolina, Oklahoma and other states have already taken steps to pass such laws. It needs to happen everywhere — and Congress should seek to institute a federal ban through legislation as well.
Second, each state should create its own 1776 Commission to examine the public school curriculum and ensure that students are receiving a patriotic, pro-American education — not being taught that the United States is an evil nation.
Third, parents have a right to know exactly what is being taught to their children. Last year, many parents had the chance to routinely listen in on classes for the first time because of remote learning. As students return to the classroom, states need to pass laws requiring that all lesson plans have to be made available to parents — every handout, article, and reading should be posted on an online portal that allows parents to see what their kids are being taught. Furthermore, in many places, there are rules preventing students from recording what teachers say in class. States and school boards should establish a “Right to Record.”
Fourth, parents need to organize locally — in every school district in America — to eliminate “Action Civics” and other versions of the effort to contort traditional civics education into a vehicle for political indoctrination. The left’s new argument is that our “divisions” stem from a lack of “civics education” — a problem they intend to “fix” with lots of new taxpayer money and a redefinition of “civics” in schools, just as they are trying to redefine the meaning of “infrastructure.” Right now, Congress is working on a $1 billion bill known as the Civics Secures Democracy Act. No Republican should trust the Biden administration with a billion dollars to spend on such programs. Even worse, the legislation threatens to establish a de facto national curriculum for history and civics, effectively bribing states into adopting the left’s anti-American curriculum. It is Common Core all over again -- but much more extreme. And like Common Core, parents must unite to stop this new federal power grab.
Fifth, any parent who objects to the material being taught to their child in public school should get an automatic voucher, empowering them to pick another school of their choice. The government has no right to brainwash students with controversial ideologies against their parents’ will.
Sixth, states need to take back control of their schools of education and credentialing bodies to ensure they are not churning out radicalized teachers. To be clear, the overwhelming majority of our nation’s teachers are some of the most selfless and wonderful people there are — but regrettably, many have graduated from extremely biased education schools and may not even be aware of the degree to which leftist ideology has permeated their curriculum. States should set up alternative credentialing bodies that can certify great teachers who know how to instill a sense of love for America. School districts can then make it a priority to hire teachers with these certifications, especially for English, history, and social studies roles. States could even set up their own versions of Teach for America to get passionate and patriotic young people into the classroom.
Finally, states need to break the tenure monopoly in public K-12 schools. Tenure was originally supposed to protect competent teachers from being subjected to undue political influence; it has turned into a mechanism to protect incompetent teachers who themselves wield undue political influence over our children. Educators who are alienating children from their own country should not be protected with lifelong tenure; they should be liberated to pursue a career as a political activist.
Make no mistake: The motive behind all of this left-wing lunacy is to discredit and eliminate the greatest obstacles to the fundamental transformation of America. To succeed with their extreme agenda, radicals know they must abolish our attachment to the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and most of all, Americans’ very identity as a free, proud, and self-governing people. The left knows that if they can dissolve our national memory and identity, they can gain the total political control they crave.
A nation is only as strong as its spirit. For our children, we must act before it is too late.
Donald Trump was the 45th president of the United States.
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"Yet in recent years, this deeply unnatural effort has progressed from telling children that their history is evil to telling Americans that they are evil."
Total bullshit. No where in any of the CRT platform does it claim Americans or even white "are evil". Teaching history, teaching the unvarnished American history is not claiming whites are evil or teaching white children they are somehow inherently racist. This is a conservative lie. Stating that we still have systemic racism in society is not teaching children that America is or should be defined by its racism. Along side the history of racism is also the history of the fight for civil rights which is also part of the CRT platform. The new Juneteenth celebrates the emancipation which Lincoln and Union soldiers fought for and enacted, but that story cannot be told without also telling the story of those conservatives who fought tooth and nail to conserve slavery, conserve segregation, conserve Jim Crow laws, conserve anti-lgtbq laws and bans on gay marriage, conserve bans on interracial marriage. To know the truth about American history you have to tell both sides, the stories of the civil rights heroes as well as the villain's. Apparently some conservatives today are whining and crying about the tales of the villians being told, apparently they hit to close to home for them to be comfortable with them and are claiming they are anti-white or anti-American because it makes them uncomfortable.
Many conservatives former heroes were confederates and they put up monuments and memorials to them and now the true story of how those were not American heroes but confederate traitors and villains is being told and the conservative descendants are angrily rejecting the facts and trying to lie and claim the facts are an attack on all Americans. Telling the truth is not an attack on true American patriots or progressives who have historically supported the fight for civil rights, who marched side by side with MLK and other civil rights heroes, who fought for women's rights and lgtbq rights, those white Americans have been fighting to make our nation a more perfect union since our founding and their stories should be told, white American heroes fighting for justice and civil rights proving to children from all backgrounds that you don't have to share in the racist legacy of conservatives but you can embrace civil rights, equal rights and diversity and be a proud white American who stands hand in hand with Americans of every color and continue that fight our founders started to create a more perfect union. The fact that the words " in Order to form a more perfect Union" are in the preamble to the constitution shows that the founders recognized the imperfection of what they were having to compromise on at the time, but felt that eventually, over time the heroes of civil rights would make the changes necessary to correct the areas they had failed in such as dismantling slavery, giving women and minorities the right to vote, embracing diversity and progress instead of bitterly clinging to the past trying to conserve some fantasy "white Christian culture ideal".
If you're offended by CRT perhaps you should ask yourself why you take it so personally and why you're connecting to the villain's in our history and having a desire to defend or deflect for them instead of connecting to the civil rights heroes that have come in every color and set the example for what we should all strive to be.
Another Confused Republican Theory ... tissue anyone?
I wish people would understand a subject before they spout off about it. (yes I'm guilty of that too.)
Educate yourself on the subject, then you can discuss it rationally instead of knee jerk emotions. ( that's to everyone BTW, not singling anybody out.)