John Fonte at American Mind reports on yet more initiatives to erase America’s past history and culture with progressive ideology. Here’s his closing:
Legislation currently before
Congress would implement this woke revolution in history-civics education. It
would implement the teaching of Critical Race Theory and de-legitimize
America’s Founders, our principles, and our stories. The legislation is
the Civics
Secures Democracy Act introduced by Democrat Senator Chris Coons of
Delaware and Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas.
The bill provides six billion
dollars over six years in competitive grants to states, local school districts;
nonprofits; and to university schools of education for teacher training. It
requires a national test on history-civic knowledge that would be developed by
educators chosen by the Biden Administration.
. . .
Across our nation, in promoting
civic education, many in the Republican and conservative establishment seek
“consensus” and “common ground” with the woke progressives. But what common
ground is there with those who defame the founders as “enslavers”; portray
America’s story as one of “systemic racism”; and reject the principle of human
equality exemplified in the Declaration of Independence in favor of “equity” as
manifested in the ubiquitous dogma of DEI?
Instead of playing a subordinate
role in phony “consensus” projects dominated overwhelmingly by the progressive
Left, conservatives should develop solid, accurate, patriotic curricular
materials as a distinct alternative to the progressive narrative.
This is already happening with Governor DeSantis’s reforms in Florida and the
work of National Association of Scholars.
At the end of the day, we
must realize that this is not a simply an academic argument, or merely a policy
dispute over history and civics education, but a life and death regime struggle
over the American Way of Life.
Read the entire column here. This legislation, the Civics Secures Democracy Act, may be
vulnerable to phone calls to Congress from outraged voters. Go here to find your representative and here for
your Senators.
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