I'll be honest with you. No matter how hard he campaigned on it, I would never have believed Trump or any other Republican president would abolish the Department of Education. I'm old enough to remember Reagan promising to do so when the department was barley a year old. He ended up doubling its size.

Now, we need to be realistic. Trump did not abolish the Department of Education. He doesn't have that power without Congress first passing a bill. Trump's order may not really a lot of teeth. But it's a great first step. To even have the subject being discussed by a sitting president and (however reluctantly) by the national media of getting the federal government out of the education business, which it has no constitutional authority to be involved in whatsoever, is a huge win.

At the same time, we have to face the reality that even if the Trump administration were successful in getting Congress to really abolish the federal Ministry of Truth, we'd still have a long way to go in freeing our children from leftist indoctrination. As I say in today's commentary,

""Even if the administration were successful in getting a bill through Congress to completely abolish the Department of Education and truly return public education to the states, it would not be a panacea for the ills of government schooling. While an electoral map may indicate more red states than blue states and one may be tempted to think that would translate into a more conservative perspective prevailing in public education in those states, it likely would not.

Even in the reddest of red states, almost 8 out of 10 of the teachers at public schools (almost 9 out of ten in elementary schools) are college educated women, the overwhelming majority white. As a recent survey shows, this demographic is drastically left of just about any other, including racial minorities and other white women. As has been the case since the dawn of the progressive era, sending your child to public school from Kindergarten through senior year high school ensures they will be immersed in left wing values throughout their formative years."

I decided to home school my daughter twenty years ago, purely based on the anti-capitalism I remembered from my own education, which was mostly in private schools. The education industry itself, public and private, is dominated by far left women and has been all our lives. Getting the feds out of it would help. But that doesn't change the demographics of teachers. 

I talk about the real solution to this problem in today's article:

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Tom Mullen is the author of It’s the Fed, Stupid and Where Do Conservatives and Liberals Come From? And What Ever Happened to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness? 

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