Re: Good things about the Trump presidency
Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2022 12:00 pm
Well, I can see one good thing in all of this.
It looks like Trump is planning to cut off Federal funding for schools and universities in Florida, Tennessee, Idaho, Arkansas, Alabama, Oklahoma, and Kentucky (and a growing list of other states) since all of those states have passed laws mandating censorship of any discussions related to systemic racism at both the K-12 and university level. What they are loosely labeling CRT even though most of it isn't actually CRT.
For example, here is Idaho which would be ineligible for any Federal education funding under Trump's new policy: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ace-theory
Many of these states are also busy censoring any discussion of LGBT people at both the K-12 and university level and are passing laws making it much easier to censor books in school libraries and censor curriculum. Or even fire teachers and professors for speech that they disapprove of.
This policy will ALSO cut off all Federal funding to all religious schools and colleges if they also engage in any form of censorship in any area of curriculum (not just the two examples of systemic racism and LGBT people I cited above). So, for example, a conservative religious school couldn't restrict discussion and materials related to evolution if they wanted any kind of Federal dollars for any purpose.
That will be a breath of fresh air if Trump and the Republican party do stand up to these promises and actually do take a new policy direction opposing censorship in education.