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Dear President Trump

1. Return education to local communities

2. Encourage education from the bully pulpit to go back to 3R’s, rote memory work, tracked classes, IQ scoring, and standardized testing.

3. Quit fighting teachers and fight Teacher Union BOSSES who live large on people forced to pay dues in most states. Far more teachers in my area voted FOR Trump.

4. Support job training and certification as alternative to traditional education once a child is high school age.

We’re so used to being the whipping boy that it’s difficult to imagine having the power of the whip.

So, very simple: Legitimate complaints regarding censorship or abuse of conservative viewpoints will be dealt with via the appropriate punishment, which includes cutting off money for student loans (or at least no longer insuring them), killing Pell Grants, and killing research money.

And if the schools squelch liberal viewpoints, then we give them extra money, as they will be making up for past discrimination (you know, Affirmative Action rationale).

As a corporate executive who has spent the past 7 years as a business school professor, I offer some additional (I think better) insights. We must understand that the degradation of higher education (as well as K-12) is not a result of incompetence, it is the execution of a plan which has been in process for at least 100 years. Virtually every college and university president in the US is a cultural marxist operative, not a leader of legitimate scholars and teachers.

The most important tools of this planned destruction are: 1) The expansion of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. A law intended to assure equal educational opportunity for women has, by bureaucratic fiat, been expanded to promoting the imposition of 60 gender identities on students, faculty and the culture. Trump can by fiat, bring Title IX back to the boundaries defined by Congress when the law was passed. 2) Fake religious neutrality. Universities vigorously promote three favored religions: Secular Humanism, Atheism and Islam. A new administration will be within its authority to require strict religious neutrality and a halt to harassment of those who express biblical Christian ideas on campuses. 3) The proliferation of “fake degrees” which multiplies the ranks of cultural marxist warriors on campus and in society at large.

If Trump really hopes to “drain the swamp”, the educational establishment is at least as poisonous a swamp as is Washington. While conservatives try to elect politicians and get laws passed, our educational system is engaged in mass production of good little commies who will not tolerate wholesome laws, healthy culture and serious intellectual activity. In other words, our educational system destroys conservative achievements faster than they can be produced.

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Executive Order #1 to Public Education: Protect freedom of speech and actions or lose federal funds. Simple enough.

Interesting article. Kudos to the author for trying not only to identify the issues with higher education but to also recommend changes. Here's what I see the author is recommending:

To change the culture, threaten the tax exempt status of colleges that try to silence conservative voices and violate their free speech rights.
- That only addresses the freedom of speech and association aspects.
- Removing liberal bias in certain programs where they weed out all but liberal students needs to be addressed.
- And the liberal bent of professorship also needs to be addressed. Perhaps some discrimination suits could be brought.
To lower cost, reduce federally required record keeping. And increase competition from online and for-profit educational models. End student loan programs so that costs will fall back to what familes can actually afford to pay.
- Hard to believe there is that much federal record keeping in colleges, but if so, reducing it is a no brainer.
- Not sure what the Trump administration is supposed to do to increase competition from online and for-profit, but I suppose making the same funds available to those programs would help.
- Not convinced that stopping the student loan programs would reduce the cost of education. That could be short sighted, and result in a less educated population. I was glad for student loans when I went to college. But I think loans should be tied to the employment prospects of individual curriculums. We don't need to fund degrees in stained glass art when the jobs aren't there.
Increase credibility. Bring jobs back and tie those jobs to earning a college degree.
- Trump will bring jobs back, but why should it be on him to tie jobs to earning a degree? That doesn't make sense. The job either needs a degree or doesn't. That should be left up to the hiring company. In general, more jobs means more demand for degrees.
- Again, I think reducing funding for degrees that aren't in demand will go far to increasing credibility. But keep in mind that demand for degrees has been suppressed, because of the stupid trade and economic policies. Fix those and demand will go up, so don't go overboard based on past demand.

If college loans will be part of the future, I might suggest that they only be available to students in engineering or hard science fields. If a person from a poor family wants to be a physicist, and can do the work, I see a benefit in helping them. If a kid from a middle class family wants to major in gender studies, I hope the family has a lot of cash on hand.

Getting a handle on K-12 and putting it back into the States’ hands is a huge first step - if colleges start getting kids with a education instead of a brainwashing, the current curriculum will not sell.

What is the interest rate on student loans? I think these should be reduced to the minimum. Why is it that the interest on cars is much less than the interest on education? That tells us what we value in our society: purchasing new things instead of investing in education.

I don’t think we should restrict free choice at any point. Students need to be advised of what the final loan payments will be and exactly what job prospects there are. But it is up to them to make the choices of their careers.

What we need are high school classes that cover things like mortgages, interest rates, loans, micro and macro economics, free market ideas, etc. Too many students are ignorant of all of this.

At the K-12 levels, we need much more challenge in all classes. Students are bored; standards need to be raised substantially.