Trump Signs Two Executive Orders to Revolutionize American Education

The Trump administration has signed two executive orders aimed at transforming American education by shifting power from bureaucrats and school administrators to parents.

1. "Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling" – This order reinforces existing laws to uphold parental rights in education. It affirms parents’ authority to decide what their children are taught and make critical medical decisions regarding their child’s identity. It also bans the enforcement of concepts like "white privilege" and "unconscious bias" in schools, arguing that such ideologies violate civil rights laws and undermine parental authority.

2. "Expanding Educational Freedom and Opportunity for Families" – This order promotes school choice, allowing parents to select the best educational environment for their children rather than being restricted by the public school system.

Both orders seek to decentralize education, emphasizing parental control and curbing ideological influence in schools.

It’s a part of President Trump’s revolution of common sense. As Sir Ken Robinson argued, education doesn’t take place in a committee room or legislative building - it happens in classrooms. The old school command-and-control approach to public education has suffocated learning.

If curiosity is the engine of achievement, the passion to discover, to understand cannot be taught, it must be awakened.

No one is better attuned to a child’s potential than their teacher and parents.

This is why the Trump administration’s two executive orders have the potential to revolutionize public education from a trickle-down mechanical machine to a human system that puts the child first. Rather than a one-size-fits-all system of conformity, we should pursue an educational enterprise of possibility and curiosity.