(Liberty Sentinel)—On March 11, newly appointed Secretary of Education Linda McMahon reduced the staff of the Department of Education (ED) by nearly 50%. As predicted per his previous promises, Donald Trump signed an executive order on March 20 to dismantle the Department of Education. McMahon recently defended $12 billion in cuts in the ED budget for FY2026. While this gives hope to many for better education in the United States, a cultural change is what is really required for education to significantly improve.
Unlike the bureaucratic top-down methods by which education has been corrupted, the cultural change needs to take place at a local level. And it needs to start with parents and teachers standing up for their right to teach.
Parents Are The Primary Educators
“Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” (Eph. 6:4)
Whether based on Holy Scripture, moral intuition, or the teachings of a church, it is generally accepted that parents are the primary educators of their children. Linda McMahon is a professed Roman Catholic, and she echoed this sentiment when she gave her beautiful speech titled “Our Department’s Final Mission.” She gave the first of the Department of Education’s “primary convictions”:
“Parents are the primary decision makers in their children’s education.”
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