OPINION:
Now that the Supreme Court has cleared the path for reorganizing the Education Department, I hope we are on a roll when it comes to overhauling federal agencies and departments (“How Trump plans to dismantle the Education Department after Supreme Court ruling,” Web, July 14).
I did not realize how much of our academic institutions were politicized under the Biden administration. I know teachers who have expressed frustration with being made to teach a curriculum that has little to do with the core basics of reading, math and science skills, and is instead focused mostly on social ideologies. It’s why so many talented teachers have chosen to pursue careers in other fields.
There was a time when drop-out rates in schools were the primary concern; now it’s poor grades and students graduating without the academic ability to compete globally.
Federal funding for education continues to increase significantly, yet the results have been among the worst in the world. As an employer, I regularly meet candidates who struggle to write a proper resume, a skill I learned in high school.
College administrators have refused to make the necessary changes to shift from a radical social agenda back to academics. This is just the latest example of how, over the past four years, our education officials lost sight of the mission and focus and replaced it with politicization and exuberance about pet radical causes — with disappointing results
This is the very reason that restructuring, including downsizing, is the solution.
We used to have strong K-12 education. These days, however, we are reactionary, and our attempts to shore up poor grades seem only to fail. This is why the Trump administration is moving forward with this agenda. While many voters focused on day-to-day survival, they underestimated the pervasiveness of leftist ideology in new curricula nation-wide. Our legacy media chose to ignore the great majority of the Biden administration’s misdeeds in this arena.
There’s an increasing number of parents fleeing public education for private education. But many economically disadvantaged parents have no choice but to keep their children in these struggling school systems, which continue to be hindrances rather than assets to their children’s futures.
GREG RALEIGH
Washington
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