Trump Signs Executive Order Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling

This is another huge and positive development for parental rights. This restores a parent’s ability to speak with their own children about sensitive matters without input from public schools. No more hidden libraries. No more questions about student pronouns. No more boys in girls bathrooms. No more conversations where students are required to question their gender. This was a grotesque overstep by many public schools, and there are reasonably substantiated rumors this was even happening locally at some of our schools. Honestly, I ask myself this every day, “Where are the men in our society who are not OK with this, and why are they not speaking up?” Well, the Trump administration is taking the bull by the horns.

This topic has been an elephant in the room which we weren’t allowed to criticize openly, or we would be mocked as intolerant. There was all kinds of virtue signalling. Anyone who questioned the virtue signalers immediately became a pariah, an outcast. In reality, as parents we just don’t want people in public schools blurring the lines between genders. We don’t want them having sensitive conversations about human sexuality with out children. We don’t want a weirdo educator with a messiah complex having inappropriate conversations with out children. It was and is indoctrination. It stops today.

As some are wrongly criticizing Donald Trump for supporting school vouchers, this is an excellent reminder that Donald Trump is working on the behalf of students and their families. Students do not belong to schools. In fact, it is quite the opposite. Our schools belong to the families who send their children there. Our schools belong to their communities. Students are not the proprietary interests of any school system. Donald Trump is restoring the educational decision making back to their parents where it should rightly be.

Here are some quotes from the executive order signed by Donald Trump last night.

Parents trust America’s schools to provide their children with a rigorous education and to instill a patriotic admiration for our incredible Nation and the values for which we stand.
In recent years, however, parents have witnessed schools indoctrinate their children in radical, anti-American ideologies while deliberately blocking parental oversight. Such an environment operates as an echo chamber, in which students are forced to accept these ideologies without question or critical examination. In many cases, innocent children are compelled to adopt identities as either victims or oppressors solely based on their skin color and other immutable characteristics. In other instances, young men and women are made to question whether they were born in the wrong body and whether to view their parents and their reality as enemies to be blamed. These practices not only erode critical thinking but also sow division, confusion, and distrust, which undermine the very foundations of personal identity and family unity.

Imprinting anti-American, subversive, harmful, and false ideologies on our Nation’s children not only violates longstanding anti-discrimination civil rights law in many cases, but usurps basic parental authority. For example, steering students toward surgical and chemical mutilation without parental consent or involvement or allowing males access to private spaces designated for females may contravene Federal laws that protect parental rights, including the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA), and sex-based equality and opportunity, including Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX). Similarly, demanding acquiescence to “White Privilege” or “unconscious bias,” actually promotes racial discrimination and undermines national unity.

My Administration will enforce the law to ensure that recipients of Federal funds providing K-12 education comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination in various contexts and protecting parental rights, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), 42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq.; Title IX, 20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.; FERPA, 20 U.S.C. 1232g; and the PPRA, 20 U.S.C. 1232h.