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‘Like the Nazis Did’: Critic Slams Trump Plans to Remake US Education System
Donald Trump’s plans to remake education at all levels, if he becomes president, are drawing concern.
In two separate videos on Trump’s little-noticed “Agenda 47” website, the ex-president details his vision to take millions of dollars away from the endowments of private colleges and universities, through lawsuits and fines, as retribution for some students he suggests embraced Hamas after it attacked Israel. Those millions of dollars would be used to create an entire new federal government university system which, Trump vows, would be entirely non-political: no “wokeness” would be allowed.
America already knows Biden is old.
What they DON’T know is that Donald Trump is running on an Agenda 47 platform that calls for stealing the endowments of PRIVATE universities and using them to create American Academies.
The people deserve to know what’s at stake this fall.… pic.twitter.com/t3iaudLuIQ
— Rachel Bitecofer 🗽💡🔭🦆 (@RachelBitecofer) March 6, 2024
Trump claimed colleges and universities are “turning our students into communists, terrorists, and sympathizers of many, many different dimensions. We can’t let this happen. It’s time to offer something dramatically different. Under the plan I’m announcing today we will take the billions and billions of dollars that we will collect by taxing, fining, and suing excessively large private university endowments, and we will then use that money to endow a new institution called the American Academy.”
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Trump also announced plans to entirely eliminate the U.S. Dept. of Education, allowing states to keep those funds so they can determine what and how children should be taught.
“Rather than indoctrinating young people with inappropriate racial, sexual and political material, which is what we’re doing now, our schools must be totally refocused to prepare our children to succeed in the world of work and in life and the world of keeping our countries strong,” Trump declared. “Right now we’re living in a failing nation because Joe Biden and these people running it, that Marxist that communist what they’re doing to our country is incredible.”
Trump claimed, “we will ensure our classrooms are focused not on political indoctrination but on teaching the knowledge and skills needed to succeed. Reading, writing, math, science, arithmetic, and other truly useful subjects,” “we will teach students to love their country not to hate their country like they’re taught right down,” and, “we will support bringing back prayer to our schools.”
Political strategist Rachel Bitecofer, who posted the videos to social media last week, says Trump plans to “take over public education just like the Nazi’s did.”
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“Your children will become their children,” she writes. “A portrait of Trump in every classroom.”
Biden is old, but here RIGHT ON HIS OWN WEBSITE Trump lays out how they will take over public education just like the Nazi’s did.
Your children will become their children.
A portrait of Trump in every classroom. #Agenda47 #Project2025 https://t.co/GebaiHuWIS pic.twitter.com/sFGWJOxUjJ
— Rachel Bitecofer 🗽💡🔭🦆 (@RachelBitecofer) March 7, 2024
On Monday, Bitcofer added, Trump “plans on turning public schools into MAGA academies and seizing the private endowment of the Ivies.”
Watch the videos above or at this link.
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