Rahm v Trump: Reset Our Revolting Schools?

Letter to Ephesians: Ex-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel & President Trump agree on only 1 thing: USA’s education system sucks. But, while Da Mayor calls on yet another Democratic “reset” to save it, No. 47 calls for a revolution.

That’s arguably the gist of 2 WSJ op eds, the one authored by Emanuel that glosses over excuse making for decades of Democratic control over locally run elementary/high schools that led test scores in basic subjects to rank almost as low as they can go; the second, an in house editorial, focused on Trump’s call to shoot for the moon & reform our colleges’ woke culture that’s indoctrinating America’s young adults to hate the nation’s Founding Fathers & the inspiring principles all followed for over 200 years. Emanuel brags about how a Stanford researcher once labelled HIS Chicago School System as “dramatically outperforming” all others across the nation, saying the facts “speak for themselves.” Never mind the Rahm-led city’s so-called stellar “graduation rates” were allegedly achieved by graduating every gangbanger who never attended a class … or the putrid test scores that may have been twisted to smell like Gucci Guilty compared to the odorous Blue City outcomes elsewhere. The sad reality is, nearly every Democratic big city, including Chicago, will never be reformed by Democrats who have too much invested now in their radically woke agenda.

But can Trump do better at the collegiate level? The WSJ gives him an A so far for effort & a C for implementation, “the rub [being over] how to use coercive power to drive [needed] wholesale reform.” Not that the editors tolerate Dems now complaining about Trump’s “coercion” via the federal purse strings after Presidents Obama & Biden did the same during their 12 years in power. But they’d agree No. 47 has a habit of taking a good idea & “going overboard.” For instance, the WSJ generally applauds Trump’s leaked “Compact for Excellence in Higher Education” & its use of federal funding as leverage to force schools to “follow the law” on such basic subjects as DEI, Civil Rights & politicizing classrooms. Where Trump goes “too far,” the editors say, is in demanding schools freeze tuition for 5 yrs & cap foreign student numbers. In the end, though, it’s suggested Trump’s revolution is better than Rahm’s reset from hell.

Davd Soul