Trump's Educational Policy: Words Or Reforms?

Words have power to influence people, to make them believe and most importantly to convince them something's going to happen if they are telling them that it would. This power is supposedly the only weapon a politician could use to win the votes of the people.

Politicians are famous for manipulating the audience with their speeches. According to Los Angeles Times, President-elect Donald Trump used this very power in the last debate with Hillary Clinton. Trump bashed the city school's education and won the debate, even though there was no proposal given to bring a change.

Trump, who had been under a lot of criticism for the controversial statements and unorthodox behaviors, eventually have now won the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, making analysts and experts so keen to see Trump's stance on education. The president-elect intends to change the structure of the nation's education department, encourages homeschooling and offers voucher-based education for poor children so they can attend the schools of their choice.

Wall Street Journal reports that Trump also plans on introducing childcare subsidies, the proposal includes low tax and paid maternity leaves for families with low income so that they can take a better care of their children. Although a detailed version is not yet elaborated as to how this plan will be implemented.

All these moves have created a lot of questions. But in cases of any reforms in the education systems in schools, the district school association has often the last decision while Trump has the power to bring a change by proposing a legislation in Congress and that can really help in a lot of ways.

Different assumptions have been made since Trump's views on education was announced. One of them is the effect on the California school fights, which have been prevalent between parents and school authorities.

Meanwhile, the conflicts were brought by the school's desires to determine the ability of the students purely on their test scores. But the parents wanted them to involve other factors like extracurricular activities and overall performance in school.