Trump has written a death warrant for the DEI government. The school policy should be as follows
NEWNow you can listen to Fox News articles!
DEI is in decline. On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive agreement order to end “radical and wasteful government DEI programs” in federal agencies.
Trump made the right call. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said that he dreamed that people “would not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” DEI’s ideology flies in the face of MLK Jr.’s civil rights agenda of treating everyone equally, regardless of the color of their skin.
The good news is that Trump is not the only leader to initiate frontal attack on DEI programs.
FLORIDA EDUCATORS FILE FEDERAL LAWSUIT CHALLENGING STATE LAW USING DEI POLICY
Governor Greg Abbott reminded everyone this month that Texas “banned DEI in higher education and cut funding for any DEI positions” last session. He also just announced on X that Texas will “ban DEI in grades K-12 and cut funding” this year. Republican lawmakers are already introducing bills to do so this session.
DEI undermines education and institutionalizes Marxist indoctrination. (iStock)
You can’t argue with that idea: If DEI programs are too divisive for adult students, why are these initiatives allowed to indoctrinate young children in public elementary and middle schools?
Shouldn’t this destructive ideology have been banned from schools with young impressionable minds before it was banned from colleges with adult students?
This chronology would make sense if political decisions were a reflection of logic, not power. But K-12 is heavily influenced by special interests, unlike any other industry or level of education. The largest labor union in the country is the teachers union, and they are fighting to maintain their monopoly over the public school system.
DEI programs give these special interests another reason to hire more useless bureaucrats and increase revenue from additional dues paying members. DEI’s public school system hiring program benefits union bosses who funnel those dollars into enriching themselves and getting more of their Democrat friends into office.
This DEI scam also wastes our tax dollars on worthless administrative positions gives teachers’ unions – and, by extension, the Democratic Party – a larger voting bloc that will push more of its left-wing pet political projects.
It’s no surprise that teachers’ unions are lobbying for DEI in schools.
The Marxist ideology that infiltrates our public schools and divides people based on their immutable characteristics—under the guise of diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI)—would be better described as divisive educational indoctrination.
Texas Rep. Brian Harrison, a Republican, told us in a statement that he is “sick of Texas taxpayers putting their hard-earned money into a weapon against them, their values and their children by being forced to fund liberal indoctrination in our public schools.”
Shouldn’t this destructive ideology have been banned from schools with young impressionable minds before it was banned from colleges with adult students?
Harrison said, “It’s long past time for the Texas Legislature to finally uproot DEI, root and branch, from the public school system.”
DEI is now in retreat thanks to elected officials who listen to common sense. But top-down regulation of the public school system is not enough to keep this harmful ideology at bay.
In January, undercover reporters from Accuracy in Media exposed a Texas school district’s DEI executive for saying that biological boys can stay with girls on overnight school trips on a case-by-case basis. Our team also exposed an administrator in Dallas ISD for admitting on video that they could find “loopholes” in Texas law protecting girls’ sports.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONS
Accuracy in Media further exposed Texas public school administrators for admitting on video to undercover reporters that employees were similarly circumventing state law banning critical race theory (CRT) in classrooms.
It is the duty of state legislators to do everything they can to adjust the public school system to be more responsive to families. But bans are not enough to protect children from divisive ideologies like CRT and DEI when employees in the system can find loopholes and evade the law. It can be a never-ending game of whack-a-mole, especially for parents who usually don’t have video evidence of what’s really going on behind the classroom door.
The public education monopoly needs to feel pressure from both sides – the state and the family – to start focusing on education, not indoctrination.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP
DEI is now in retreat thanks to elected officials who listen to common sense. But top-down regulations on the public school system are not enough to keep this harmful ideology at bay.
Parents who suspect their children are being brainwashed by ideologies that conflict with their values should be able to vote with their feet for schools that better meet their needs. It would encourage the public school system to make all families happy—regardless of their political background—by focusing on the basics.
The teachers’ unions won’t be happy about having to compete, but that’s just bad. The school system was not created for them. It exists to serve children and their families, not the other way around.
Adam Guillette is president of Accuracy in Media.
