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Posted on 09/10/2025 5:36:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Like a great pendulum that has swung too far in one direction, American education has spent decades lurching away from its founding principles. For generations, our public schools have transformed from institutions that acknowledged the divine into sterile laboratories of secular indoctrination. Parents have watched helplessly as their children were taught to hide their faith like contraband, to whisper prayers as if they were speaking profanities. But sometimes, just when the pendulum seems frozen at its furthest point, gravity reasserts itself.
The erosion didn’t happen overnight. Since the 1960s, a series of court decisions and bureaucratic edicts have systematically scrubbed religious expression from our schools. What began as preventing government-mandated prayer morphed into something far more sinister: the active suppression of voluntary religious expression.
Students have been suspended for praying over their lunches, forbidden from writing about their faith in essays, and prohibited from gathering for Bible study even during free periods. But hey, who could have seen this coming, right? The secular left didn’t just separate church and state – they built a wall so high that faith itself became the enemy.
President Trump’s journey on education reform tells its own story of transformation. Initially promising to abolish the Department of Education entirely, he’s discovered something perhaps more powerful: the ability to turn the left’s own weapons against them. I’ll be honest – I was skeptical when Trump talked about abolishing the DOE.
But this? This is genius. Rather than dismantling the federal education apparatus, he’s choosing to redirect it toward protecting, not persecuting, the values most Americans hold dear. It’s a masterclass in political jujitsu – using the infrastructure built by progressives to advance conservative principles.
This strategic pivot crystallized Monday at the Museum of the Bible, where Trump made an announcement that sent shockwaves through the educational establishment. Standing before the Religious Liberty Commission, the President declared that the Department of Education would issue new guidance protecting prayer in public schools. The same department that has spent years enabling the suppression of religious expression will now become its defender.
From Breitbart:
To support students like Hannah, I’m pleased to announce this morning that the Department of Education will soon issue new guidance protecting the right to prayer in our public schools. To have a great nation, you have to have religion. I believe that so strongly.
The Hannah he referenced was Hannah Allen, a student who was prohibited from praying in front of other students – her story just one of countless examples of religious persecution in our supposedly tolerant educational system. Trump didn’t just make a policy announcement; he put a human face on the systematic discrimination that Christian students have endured. His declaration that “we will never apologize for our faith” drew a standing ovation from the assembled religious leaders, but more importantly, it sent a message to every school administrator who has spent years intimidating students of faith.
The President’s words carried special weight in that sacred space, where his own family Bible – used in both his inaugurations – will now be displayed. The symbolism wasn’t subtle, nor should it be. This is about reclaiming our heritage, about acknowledging what the founders knew: that our rights come not from government but from God. When Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner led the room in prayer, announcing that over 70 faith organizations had joined the “America Prays” initiative, it became clear that this isn’t just about policy – it’s about cultural restoration.
The critics are already howling, bless their hearts. Groups like Americans United for Separation of Church and State claim this threatens their version of religious liberty – which apparently means the liberty to be free from ever witnessing religious expression. They warn about “Christian nationalism” while ignoring the blatant secular nationalism that has dominated our schools for decades. But here’s what kills me: their protests ring hollow to parents who’ve watched their children come home confused about their gender but certain that their family’s faith is backwards and bigoted. Tell me again who’s doing the indoctrinating?
Look, I get it – nobody wants a theocracy. But there’s something deeply twisted about calling it “progress” when a kid can’t bow their head before lunch without risking suspension. We’ve reached a point where teaching kindergarteners about drag queens is considered essential education, but mentioning God is somehow dangerous. You want to talk about establishment of religion? How about the establishment of militant secularism that’s been force-fed to our children for decades?
This moment represents more than just a policy shift; it’s a recognition that the American people never signed up for the radical secularization of their children’s education. When Trump said, “There has to be something after we go through all of this, and that something is God,” he spoke to a truth that resonates in the hearts of millions of Americans who’ve felt voiceless in this debate. And you know what? It’s about damn time someone in power said it out loud.
The pendulum is finally swinging back. Not through force or mandate, but through the simple act of protecting what should have never needed protection: the right of American children to express their faith without fear. Trump’s boldness in using the very machinery built by the left to restore religious liberty shouldn’t just be applauded – it should be celebrated as a blueprint for cultural renewal.
Sometimes the best way forward is to remember where we came from. And if that makes the secular zealots uncomfortable? Well, they’ve had their turn. Now it’s ours.
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HOORAY President Trump!
God bless Donald J. Trump!
In 1952, our parish priest walked our second grade class from our Public School to the Church Basement for Religious Instruction.
Sorry, this is a step in the wrong direction. Rather than affirming that the federal government has the power to dictate anything having to do with education to the individual states, he should be enforcing the Constitution that prohibits it.
President Trump has simply pointed out what the Constitution says, using its words.
He announced that the Department of Exucation will be issuing new guidelines concerning prayer in public schools. The Department of Education doesn’t exist anywhere in the Constitution. I would much rather he stated that and act accordingly rather than imply that they have any sort of ability to dictate education policy to the states. This is a state by state issue and should be treated as such.
“The First Amendment protects religious expression and prevents government interference or discrimination in matters of prayer in schools.”
The DOE is his hammer for seeing that the First Amendment is followed. Students and teachers can’t be harassed for praying in school.
THE FIRST AMENDMENT is the nationwide hammer. The Constitution gives the federal government standing to enforce it. It doesn’t give the federal government a Department of Education so enforcement of the First Amendment is to be found elsewhere.
I don’t think so. All places where muslims are over 5% of the population will have their ululations in the public schools.
This is utterly inevitable.
Members of an anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life evil collective should not have a place in any institution of this republic if it is to survive. As large as that collective is, it will be amazing if any civilization survives.
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