In defiance of Trump's Jan. 29 executive order ending radical indoctrination in K-12 schooling, Michigan Board of Education Superintendent Michael Rice reportedly remains committed to teaching racism and LGBTQ ideology to kindergartners, high school seniors, and all ages in between.
"In Michigan, it is unlawful to discriminate against individuals on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression," Rice said in a letter sent to local school superintendents in response to the order. "Neither a presidential executive order nor federal regulations, whether related to federal funding or not, can supersede or otherwise set aside our obligation to comply with a validly enacted state anti-discrimination law. State civil rights law remains the law."
He has cited a 2023 statistic that nearly 25% of public high school students in the state "identify as LGBTQ+."
"For a long time, this is basically all that schools have been focused on," notes Spencer Brown of Young America's Foundation (YAF). "Instead of focusing on educating the rising generation, they've been focusing on indoctrinating them."
He commends President Trump for wasting no time tackling this "serious issue for the future of our country." Still, he finds it "unsurprising" that the schools that have been so stuck in these radically leftist ways so long would forfeit federal funding and continue to do it.
"I do think it's interesting that they don't seem to have learned the lesson that they all should have last November, when it became pretty clear that the American people, and parents especially, were fed up with this one-sided, leftist, biased, radical education," Brown adds.
While the Biden administration spent millions on "LGBTQ inclusion" and "anti-racism and anti-oppression" in public schools, Brown says too many students were coerced or brainwashed into using chemical and/or surgical treatments to try and become the opposite sex.
But the fact is that is not possible, and attempting to do so is not painless or consequence-free.
He warns that if education, especially elementary education, is not corrected, then the "golden age" President Trump hopes to achieve will not be.
Trump has also signed orders declaring the federal recognition of only two genders, banning federal funds from going towards the “chemical and surgical mutilation” of children, and prohibiting men from competing in women’s sports.
