Critical Race Theory (CRT), as an ideological system, really began to make headlines under the Biden administration, though it was active in higher academia for several years. Under this ideological paradigm, it was taught that individuals all belonged to various groups, and that those groups were identified primarily by characteristics such as race, sex, sexual orientation, financial status, etc.
CRT was, and is, a thoroughly Marxist system that creates a dividing line between the “have’s” and “have not’s,” or the “bourgeoisie” (the rich who control the production of goods and government) and the “proletariat” (the poor, working class). It uses different titles and definitions, but the result is the same: Discord and division amongst peoples that, ultimately, is meant to lead to revolutionary ideas that dismantle the state and government.
The Biden administration attempted, as much as possible, to codify the core tenets of CRT into the cultural zeitgeist and academic structure of the United States. College campuses across the country adopted liberalized curriculum into their classrooms, workplaces adapted DEI paradigms into their hiring processes, and even K-12 public schools began to engage with the ideas and teach them to students as universal laws of the land.
The Trump administration, however, has continued to fight against the CRT indoctrination facing the United States of America, and especially against those methods being used to indoctrinate young people in public schools.
On January 29th, 2025, President Trump signed the executive order, Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling. Under Section 1, defining the purpose of the executive order, the document explains that:
In recent years, however, parents have witnessed schools indoctrinate their children in radical, anti-American ideologies while deliberately blocking parental oversight. Such an environment operates as an echo chamber, in which students are forced to accept these ideologies without question or critical examination. In many cases, innocent children are compelled to adopt identities as either victims or oppressors solely based on their skin color and other immutable characteristics. In other instances, young men and women are made to question whether they were born in the wrong body and whether to view their parents and their reality as enemies to be blamed. These practices not only erode critical thinking but also sow division, confusion, and distrust, which undermine the very foundations of personal identity and family unity.
Thus, the goal of this executive order is to bring an end to the “radical, anti-American ideologies” which have “blocked parental oversight.” Parents have an indelible right to oversee the educational instruction of their children and public schools have no right to block their oversight. In fact, as the Trump administration rightly points out, the CRT indoctrination of young people has “erode[d] critical thinking” and “sow[n’ division, confusion, and distrust...” Furthermore, CRT actually introduces far more racist ideas than it pretends to solve, and even breaks Federal laws and American rights, as the executive order clearly states:
Imprinting anti-American, subversive, harmful, and false ideologies on our Nation’s children not only violates longstanding anti-discrimination civil rights law in many cases, but usurps basic parental authority. For example, steering students toward surgical and chemical mutilation without parental consent or involvement or allowing males access to private spaces designated for females may contravene Federal laws that protect parental rights, including the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA), and sex-based equality and opportunity, including Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX). Similarly, demanding acquiescence to “White Privilege” or “unconscious bias,” actually promotes racial discrimination and undermines national unity.
The solution introduced, then, is to put a stop to “Discriminatory Equity Ideology.” The strategy set forth, under Section 3, is to:
(a) Within 90 days of the date of this order, to advise the President in formulating future policy, the Secretary of Education, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Attorney General, shall provide an Ending Indoctrination Strategy to the President, through the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, containing recommendations and a plan for:
(i) eliminating Federal funding or support for illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in K-12 schools, including based on gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology; and
(ii) protecting parental rights, pursuant to FERPA, 20 U.S.C. 1232g, and the PPRA, 20 U.S.C. 1232h, with respect to any K-12 policies or conduct implicated by the purpose and policy of this order.
Under Section 4, the executive order then reestablishes “The President’s Advisory 1776 Commission (“1776 Commission”)” which the Biden administration had previously ended. The purpose of the 1776 Commission is to:
promote patriotic education and advance the purposes stated in section 1 of Executive Order 13958, as well as to advise and promote the work of the White House Task Force on Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday (“Task Force 250”) and the United States Semiquincentennial Commission in their efforts to provide a grand celebration worthy of the momentous occasion of the 250th anniversary of American Independence on July 4, 2026.
Over the next 120 days, the 1776 Commission will be working to determine what exact steps must be taken to put an end to not only K-12 Indoctrination, but will work to secure an educational standard for students in public schools that will promote truth, wisdom, and patriotism within young people. Christians ought to pray that this endeavor would be successful; parents have a right to oversee the education of their children, and children in America ought to receive an education that is based in objective reality rather than the whims and fancies of a liberalized agenda.
