Trump's 1776 Commission to 'Promote Patriotic Education' Is Executive Overreach

[Pauls' Revere]

Yes. Everyone knows that, as a true alpha male, if you touch or look at tofu or any other non-meat foodstuff, you will instantly become gay and trans.

Tofu pretends to be food.

[Anti Globalist]

Sounds better than what we currently have now. Kids are indoctrinated into hating America and everything that it stands for as well as believing socialism and communism are good things.

[nikcers]

The answer to defeat communism and socialism is Americanism. We need to define it though so they can't reframe American history like we are the bad guys. We should make them pay for it too. Why should we pay to teach their kids that America isn't evil. Ill pay a share of it but paying the whole cost while they indoctrinate their kids into communism is a fools game especially because they are getting help from foreign influencers. We will never get the left to admit that they are being influenced by foreign ideological propaganda.

[familydog]

Will the 1776 Commission have any real historians on it? Or will they all be warmed-over neocon historians that have screwed up American education since the Reagan administration? I think I know the answer.

[Ender]

Will the 1776 Commission have any real historians on it? Or will they all be warmed-over neocon historians that have screwed up American education since the Reagan administration? I think I know the answer.

I think we've got the same answer.

[Ender]

Even if does not lead to that, obviously the choice is no indoctrination, but if there is to be indoctrination, I would much rather see indoctrination about liberty, the Bill of Rights, property rights and limited government, rather than race based Marxist revolution.

Therefore I support it.

Let me know when real truth about those subjects are taught- I won't hold my breathe.

[phill4paul]

It'd be nice if education levels for 8th graders in reading and math proficiency could break 50%. THAT is where public education is truly failing.

[Brian4Liberty]

Let me know when real truth about those subjects are taught- I won't hold my breathe.

https://www.ronpaulcurriculum.com/

[Ender]

https://www.ronpaulcurriculum.com/

Agree- just talking about our public prisons.

[TheCount]

Tofu pretends to be food.

It is trans meat

[Pauls' Revere]

It is trans meat

ROFLMAO !!!

[Occam's Banana]

Meanwhile, Reason's articles about the 1619 Project and it's implementation as a national standard seem to revolve around minor critiques and maybe some tweeks. No mention of who has the authority to push this on the nation.

Public Schools Are Teaching The 1619 Project in Class, Despite Concerns From Historians
"Mandating the use of The 1619 Project in K-12 curricula is at best premature until these issues are resolved."

The 1619 Project—The New York Times Magazine's much vaunted series of essays about the introduction of African slavery to the Americas—will now be taught in K-12 schools around the country.
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Many historians, though, have questioned The 1619 Project's accuracy. Five of them penned a letter to The New York Times expressing dismay "at some of the factual errors in the project and the closed process behind it." These historians said the project's contention that the American Revolution was launched "in order to ensure slavery would continue" was flat-out wrong.

Another historian, Phil Magness of the American Institute for Economic Research, has criticized Matthew Desmond's 1619 Project essay, which claimed that modern American capitalism has its roots in plantation slavery. Magness has persuasively argued that this claim lacks verification, and that Desmond relied on bad data about cotton-picking rates in the pre-Civil War south.
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Some conservative critics have overreached: Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich called The 1619 Project "propaganda" and suggested that the Times was trying to brainwash readers. That line of attack goes too far, but there are valid criticisms of the project's ideological slant.
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"Mandating the use of The 1619 Project in K-12 curricula is at best premature until these issues are resolved and the Times makes a good faith effort to answer its critics," Magness tells Reason. "While there is merit to some of the themes raised by The 1619 Project, it continues to be marred by its empirically debunked and explicitly anti-capitalist assessment of the economics of slavery."
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More: https://reason.com/2020/01/28/1619-p...ublic-schools/

Historian Phil Magness on the 1619 Project Scandal

^^^ This is a link to a post in this thread from last year: NY Times Piles Hate on America with the 1619 Project

[vita3]

If this gets taught, I’m all for it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zgmg2VFX058