President Trump is expected to sign a long-expected executive action Thursday calling on U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon “to take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure [of] the Department of Education and return education authority to the States,” according to a fact sheet provided by the White House. Trump plans to sign the order at a ceremony alongside the Republican governors of Texas, Indiana, Florida and Ohio.
This terrifies me. Not because we may have a generation of kids who don’t know fundamentals, but because we may have a generation of potential leaders who are not only competent but are religious ideologues. They will make decisions based on what their religions mandate and we will be worse for it.