November has been a turbulent month and hosted one of the most debated presidential elections in decades. Mainstream media has been strongly focused on President-Elect Donald Trump’s policies on racial and LGBTQ issues and not as much on his plans on education reform and job reform in the younger sector.

According to the president-elect’s platform website, his main problems lie with K-12 schooling and how the United States is one of the top countries for spending per student but still records being regularly out preformed by other countries.

However, Trump’s post election actions have shifted towards privatizing education with his recent nomination of Betsy DeVos, who has been noted as a fierce opponent of public education by several public teachers associations. DeVos has also been a staunch supporter of pushing Christianity in public school, going so far to add creationism to be taught in science classes.

With Elgin Community College being an Illinois public school it seemed fitting to find the college’s stance, however at this time Kristophere Owens, the Communications Specialist for the college, said, “At this time we would prefer not to speculate until he’s in office.”

It makes sense that a school wouldn’t want to start speculation and possibly cause worry to its students and staff. Students, however, have already started worrying with many taking to the streets of Chicago immediately following the election to protest Trump and his vice president choice, Mike Pence.

A student, who wished to remain anonymous, said, “I don’t mind Trump’s economic policies but everything else seems a little out of place.”

Not many students share positive views of our president-elect but few knew much on his stances bringing jobs back to America and stopping companies from moving factory jobs overseas.

On his candidacy page, Trump talks about raising import taxes and making it harder to close factories here and move them overseas and even outsourcing call centers.

This does create issues in other sectors (i.e. environmental problems) since Trump has a strong push for fossil fuels instead of sustainable energy. Many energy tycoons, are however moving towards renewable since it’s becoming cheaper and cheaper.

It’s important to remember that with this president, as with all president’s before him and, likely, many after that the promises and ideas made during the campaigns may never see the light of day. They are generally made to show how the candidate feels and to garner support from their affiliated party.

*Please note that this article is to provide information and that the ECC Observer does not endorse lect Trump or former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton*