Heidi Cuevas | Opinion Director
The election results are in: Donald Trump has won and while some see this as a victory, we need to be ready to adapt to a significantly more conservative education system.
Let’s start with the rumors of Project 2025 beginning once Donald Trump is inaugurated— if this is true, none of us are safe from the disastrous impact it will cause.
Written by the Trump first administration and published by The Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 is the 900 page extremist conservative blueprint with 735 proposed policies.
Some of these policies range from restricting reproductive rights, start mass deportation, strip away transgender rights or any gender affirming care and attack higher education.
And though Trump has consistently claimed that he is not associated with Project 2025– despite having direct ties to the writers and foundation— his stance on higher education is driven by conservative motives anyways.
Trump has promised in his campaign trail to cut federal funding for schools that teach critical race theory or gender ideology and he has vendetta against DEI which has been shut down in 10 states, including Florida.
We’ve already been feeling the effects of censored education but Trump’s second term is going to continue blurring the line between being educated and being fed the false conservative ideology that he continues to push for.
The FIU Board of Trustees has already cut 22 courses from their core curriculum that focus on race and ethnicity, LGBTQ+ studies, anthropology and sociology— all important courses to teach us the reality of the racism and oppression in American history that continue to haunt us today.
Trump also claims he will dismantle the department of education and give states control over schools yet he wants to push the “American Way of Life” and make “patriotism a centerpiece of education.”
So how will states be in control of education if he is pushing for an education curriculum that teaches what he wants students to learn?
And if Trump succeeds with his agenda and states are granted control over education, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis political “war on woke” agenda will torment students studying in the humanities field.
And let’s not forget how the Biden administration inclusion to protect LGBTQ+ students and survivors of sexual assault under Title IX will be stripped away.
Is this a surprise? No, not really.
In Trump’s first term he wanted to protect the accusers not the victims in sexual assault cases and the inclusion of LGBTQ+ students continue to be rejected by republican politicians, including DeSantis.
The sad reality is that Trump’s second term as president will affect us one way or another. The education we have known for over a decade will crumble under Trump’s second term, leaving us only with pieces to depend on.
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