What a Trump second presidency will mean for school prayer, campus antisemitism and other education issues Jews care about

[Guno צְבִי]

Regardless of who Trump taps to lead the department, Jewish groups and education experts are concerned about the president-elect giving wide berth to Christian nationalists who believe the country needs more religious influence on public education — and that that religious influence would be fundamentally Christian.

“I think it’s going to be a disaster,” said Frank Ravitch, a Michigan State University professor who specializes in religion and the law. “Every Jewish parent needs to be on guard.”

Daniel Mach, who heads the American Civil Liberties Union’s religious freedom office, said Trump and his first-term appointees “routinely displayed an outright hostility to church-state separation.”


With both houses of Congress set to be controlled by the president’s party next year, Mach said he expects “a steady flow of dangerous policies that trample the rights of religious minorities, LGBTQ folks, and anyone who doesn’t subscribe to a particular set of Christian beliefs.”

What a Trump second presidency will mean for school prayer, campus antisemitism and other education issues Jews care — and worry — about

Jewish groups are unsure how Trump and his secretary of education will handle antisemitism, school prayer, separation of church and state.

forward.com

 

[cawacko]

So on one hand you have Trump telling Universities to end antisemitism or else they will lose accreditation while at the same time he's a threat to every Jewish student.

It's a weird mix where people don't want antisemitism but then are in a strange place of having an individual you don't like doing something you want. Ideology and partisanship almost trump (no pun intended) the results.

 

[cawacko]

Oakland is one of the most liberal cities in the country. There are no Republicans there. Not a rhetorical question guno, do you know what the ACLU's stance was on the Gaza situation and anti-semitism in schools that followed?

Fed-up Jewish families pull their kids out of Oakland schools midyear​

Fed-up Jewish parents pull kids out of Oakland schools midyear

33 Jewish families have transferred from OUSD to the Piedmont district midyear, saying their children were no longer safe in their schools.

jweekly.com

Jewish students feel ‘unsafe' after UC Berkeley Gaza protest turns violent​

Jewish students feel ‘unsafe' after UC Berkeley Gaza protest turns violent

Some students at UC Berkeley are saying they’re fearing for their safety after an event organized by Jewish student groups was shut down by pro-Palestinian demonstrators Monday.

www.nbcbayarea.com