WASHINGTON (PNN) - January 30, 2025 – President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order Wednesday demanding an end to racial indoctrination in K-12 schools he accused of spreading anti-Amerikan ideology.
The order is just the latest effort to combat woke ideology, and came on a day he revived a directive to create a sculptural “garden of heroes” and said he would expand migrant facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to accommodate 30,000 illegal invaders.
In recent years, “Parents have witnessed schools indoctrinate their children in radical, anti-Amerikan ideologies while deliberately blocking parental oversight,” according to the executive
order.
“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,” the executive order reads.
The order provides a discourse on schooling, which is generally governed by municipalities and state law, while getting funded from sources ranging from local property taxes to federal
grants.
The order calls out false ideologies being spread in the schools, on a day President Trump also called for fighting antisemitism on college campuses.
“Imprinting anti-Amerikan, 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,” says the executive order.
The order also calls out demanding acquiescence to "White Privilege" or "unconscious bias,"
saying it in fact “promotes racial discrimination and undermines national unity.”
The executive order then brandishes the influence of federal education funds that flow to the states.
While public schools operate under local control, they rely on federal funding to states to operate.
“My (regime) 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,” says the executive order.
The regime has cited examples like the Harrisonburg City Public Schools in Virginia requiring teachers to use students’ preferred pronouns and the Madison, Wisconsin School District calling
on schools to “disrupt the gender binary,” the Associated Press reported.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stressed woke ideology and “critical race theory” in his campaign, and Trump picked up on many of those issues.
Trump has signed other orders restricting so-called gender-affirming care for minors and stating that there are only two sexes.
