Dear George Letter

The Hillsdale
1776 Curriculum

American History and Civics Lessons for
K-12 Classrooms

Welcome

America is an exceptionally good country

Larry P. Arnn
President
Hillsdale College

The first question is, why study civics? As the classical authors teach us, living under laws is natural for human beings. After all, we can think in different ways than other creatures, and we can talk. Whatever we can think, we can say. That makes a natural closeness among us, and the political community is an expression of that closeness. For that reason alone, civics is one of those subjects that the educated person must know.

The second reason is that politics is important. Great harm is done by bad laws, and great good by good laws. We are citizens. We have an obligation to our fellow citizens and an interest for ourselves to make the laws as good as they can be.

The third reason is that the United States of America, our country, is a remarkable place. In 2026, we will reach the 250th anniversary of the founding of our nation. By any reckoning, this is a significant milestone. Our nation has grown from a few people huddled in a strange land along the eastern seaboard to a huge nation that spans the continent. Through the vast changes that have come upon the world and the United States in these centuries, the nation has been governed under a written Constitution, long the oldest surviving in human history. Under the principles of the Declaration of Independence, that Constitution provides for a government operating under the authority of the governed. This achievement is unprecedented.

Larry P. Arnn

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…Classical and American

Hillsdale College was founded in 1844 with the purpose of providing “sound learning” of the kind necessary to preserve the “blessings of civil and religious liberty.” In the words of its modern mission statement, the College “considers itself a trustee of our Western philosophical and theological inheritance tracing to Athens and Jerusalem, a heritage finding its clearest expression in the American experiment of self-government under law.”

In furtherance of that mission, Hillsdale College teaches K-12 schools to provide an education that is both classical and American in its orientation; one that is rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, offers a firm grounding in civic virtue, and cultivates moral character.

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The Hillsdale 1776 Curriculum

The Education American Students Deserve ​

The Hillsdale 1776 Curriculum is a complete collection of lesson plans for teaching American history, civics, and government to K-12 students. Students who study using this curriculum learn about American history from the colonies through the Civil War at four different times during their K-12 years, each time increasing in depth. The curriculum also includes American history since the Civil War and American government and civics for both middle and high school students.

This curriculum provides teachers with guidance—not dictates—about how to plan and teach a given topic in American history or civics. This guidance includes Hillsdale College-vetted books, online courses, and other resource recommendations; lists of content topics, stories to tell, and questions to ask of students; “Keys to the Lesson” that clarify important points for teachers to keep in mind; student-ready primary sources; and sample assignments, activities, and assessments. 

The Hillsdale 1776 Curriculum is the product of Hillsdale College professors and some of the very best K-12 teachers, both past and present, derived from and created for real classrooms with real students taught by real teachers

 

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An Introduction

CONTENT | Engaging an Inheritance

In history and civics classes, American students should have one aim above all: to understand what they have received, i.e., their inheritance as Americans. To understand clearly, students and teacher alike must adopt a stance of humility. And this humility is fostered by the recognition on the part of the student that the world in which we live, with all its benefits and also its faults, is not of our own creation. This is the beginning of American history and civic education.

From this starting point, the field of discovery in history and civics is, if not endless, then impossible to explore completely in any number of lifetimes. Principles must therefore be discerned and applied to determine where to begin, on what to focus, and in which order. The need to choose and choose carefully is all the more pressing within the limits of thirteen years of formal education.

Instead, The Hillsdale 1776 Curriculum determines what students should learn in history and civics based on the answers to a single question: What ideas, words, and deeds have most significantly formed the world into which students were born? Studying the answers to this question provides students the fullest understanding of the world in which they will live their lives.

PEDAGOGY | Sharing a Love

SEQUENCE | For the American Student

STRUCTURE | Clarity and Simplicity

USE | The Freedom to Teach

SUCCESS | What Is Needed

GRATITUDE | Real Teachers, Real Classrooms, Real Students

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Thomas Jefferson owned hundreds of slaves that he did not free because he could not afford to because he spent too much money on his hobbies. 

See post 2.2 

Please...

You can go see it too.  

I read it the first time, thanks for spamming your own parrot droppings.

the 1776 Curriculum references slavery nearly 2,000 times. It is forthright in acknowledging the institution as a “glaring” example of America’s failure to live up to “its founding ideas.” To O’Toole and Hillsdale, the question isn’t whether to teach about slavery, but how to teach about it in the context of America’s lofty founding principles.

“[T]he more important thing in American history is that which has endured rather than that which has passed,” O’Toole wrote to teachers in a letter attached to the curriculum. “[T]hat is, America’s founding principles which have outlasted and extinguished from law various forms of evil, such as slavery, racism, and other violations of the equal protection of natural rights.”

In contrast to curricula riddled with impenetrable jargon, the 1776 Curriculum is written in an accessible style for students and teachers. It is also short on prescriptive guidance for teachers and encourages them to read primary-source materials alongside their students.

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“[T]hat is, America’s founding principles which have outlasted and extinguished from law various forms of evil, such as slavery, racism, and other violations of the equal protection of natural rights.”

Slavery has been extinguished , although I dont know why anyone would need to congratulate themselves about that. Whether or not racism and other unequal treatment have been completely eliminated from our society and our justice system seems to be a matter of opinion. 

“America is not a racist country”.  U.S. Senator Tim Scott.  

The historical record decides that, not Tim Scott

Tim Scott was talking about present day America and he’s exactly right.  There will never be a national consensus about the historical record because of the perversions to it by CRT and 1619 propaganda.  Fortunately there is a very strong reaction and response to contain the spread of the contagion.  So since we will never all agree about our exceptional nations history we can affirm that we are not a racist nation now as he said.  

Not too long ago, secret rooms at his home were discovered where he kept Sally and his growing family.  It took renovating the public use bathroom to discover it.

Hillsdale College is a right wing school affiliated with the far right Claremont Institute.  Enough said. 

Hillsdale College is an independent private school that receives no federal funds and draws influential constitutional, economic, and government leaders there for forums and addresses on a regular basis.  I have received their Imprimus publication of such speeches there for the last 30 years.  The 1776 curriculum they facilitated the creation of is top notch and will be taught in far more places than 1619 propaganda will be.  

"Unlike the 1619 Project and its politicized curricula, the Hillsdale 1776 Curriculum doesn’t use history as a weapon to fight current political battles," O'Toole told RealClearEducation . "Instead, the Hillsdale 1776 Curriculum is a reflection of the honest study of history that has been going on at Hillsdale College and its dozens of affiliated K-12 schools for decades. It’s a content-rich curriculum covering American history, American government and civics – the complete story of our nation that is honest, inspiring and unifying."

The new curriculum promises to teach that "truth is objective," while also emphasizing that "individuals should be judged based on their specific actions tending toward a certain character instead of their label, group identity, sex, religion or skin color."

While it will acknowledge that the "United States of America is by no means perfect," it seeks to remind students that America "is unprecedented in the annals of human history for the extraordinary degrees of freedom, peace and prosperity available to its people and to those who immigrate to her shores."

The curriculum comes as many states have either banned or introduced legislation to ban the teaching of critical race theory in public schools, with 28 states launching efforts to curtail the controversial lessons.

O'Toole said American history should emphasize the ideas that have made America a force food good.

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While an overtly patriotic American history curriculum might be accused of downplaying sordid facts of the nation’s history, the 1776 Curriculum references slavery nearly 2,000 times. It is forthright in acknowledging the institution as a “glaring” example of America’s failure to live up to “its founding ideas.” To O’Toole and Hillsdale, the question isn’t whether to teach about slavery, but how to teach about it in the context of America’s lofty founding principles.

“[T]he more important thing in American history is that which has endured rather than that which has passed,” O’Toole wrote to teachers in a letter attached to the curriculum. “[T]hat is, America’s founding principles which have outlasted and extinguished from law various forms of evil, such as slavery, racism, and other violations of the equal protection of natural rights.”

In contrast to curricula riddled with impenetrable jargon, the 1776 Curriculum is written in an accessible style for students and teachers. It is also short on prescriptive guidance for teachers and encourages them to read primary-source materials alongside their students. O’Toole told RealClearEducation that the curriculum is open-ended by design and meant to foster an environment of mutual enrichment in the classroom.
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While an overtly patriotic American history curriculum might be accused of downplaying sordid facts of the nation’s history, the 1776 Curriculum references slavery nearly 2,000 times. It is forthright in acknowledging the institution as a “glaring” example of America’s failure to live up to “its founding ideas.” To O’Toole and Hillsdale, the question isn’t whether to teach about slavery, but how to teach about it in the context of America’s lofty founding principles

Good to see that they are practicing your version of CRT, lol

To O’Toole and Hillsdale, the question isn’t whether to teach about slavery, but how to teach about it in the context of America’s lofty founding principles

You can do that, and the 1619 Project can teach about America's founding principles in the context of slavery. 

Get the picture yet XX ?

They aren’t.  They are teaching our true history in its proper context unburdened by political baggage from any side.  As it should be done.  

No it can’t.  There is little to nothing legitimate or accurate in 1619 propaganda.  There is no legitimate place for it in the schools or the education of our precious children.  

There is little to nothing legitimate or accurate in 1619 propaganda.  There is no legitimate place for it in the schools or the education of our precious children.

Do "you people" teach children about Satan in Sunday school?

Yes or No?

No it can’t.  There is little to nothing legitimate or accurate in 1619 propaganda.

Of course, as we have demonstrated over and over when this subject comes up, you dont know what the fuck you are talking about. The 1619 Project is not historically false on a broad scale. The woman mischaracterized a few items in her essay. 

The New York Times reviewed the objections of the five historians who wrote a letter complaining about the 1619 Project, and nonetheless the newspaper kept almost all of the original essay intact. Because they accept its accuracy. 

You people?

Enough said .... fucked up attitude noted.

Do "you people" teach children about Satan in Sunday school?

Is Sunday school an attendance mandated program like school? Apples and tire irons comparison

Read your own commentary?

fucked up attitude noted.

Ditto.

Is Sunday school an attendance mandated program like school?

It is for the children who are forced to attend isn't it? Their parents take them there, right?

Apples and tire irons comparison

Is it? Or do you just feel compelled to contradict me for the sake of it?

Riddle me this. Is truancy against the law? Does it apply to Sunday school? Can parents be held legally accountable for not taking their kids to Sunday school?

And no I wasn't contradicting you for the sake of it. Just pointing out that it MAY have been a false equivalence.

Ditto.

Nope, not even close.

That the New York Times accepts its accuracy over the objections of true historians is no accomplishment considering the obvious bias and other internal problems and issues with the news not fit to print.  

Indeed.  Couldn’t have said it better!  

A good enough reason for many of us here…

More than just “may” 

I believe it is one of the few schools that doesn't take Federal aid.

The federal government, which funds schools, is inundated with the CRT agenda and training, About a year ago President Trump took steps to end it with Executive Order 13950.

It stated:

"The destructive ideology is grounded in misrepresentations of our country's history and it's role in the world. Although presented as new and revolutionary, they resurrect the discredited notions of the Nineteenth Century's apologists for slavery who, like President Lincoln's rival Stephen A Douglas, maintained that our government "was made of the white basis"...by white men, for the benefit of white men. Our Founding documents rejected these radicalized views of America, which were soundly defeated on the blood-stained battlefieds of the Civil War. Yet they are now being repackaged and sold as cutting-edge insights. They are designed to divide us and to prevent us from uniting as one people in pursuit of one common destiny for our great country."

On January 20, 2021, as part of a new Executive Order titled “Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government,” President Biden revoked Executive Order 13950.

I dont care whether or not schools take federal aid, why would I? 

side note

from the Hillsdale College wikipedia page

Notable Administrators and Promoters [ edit ]

• Pat Sajak , Wheel of Fortune host, President of the Hillsdale College Board of Trustees ^[126]
• Rush Limbaugh , political commentator, media personality
• Hugh Hewitt , political commentator
• Mark Levin , radio personality

You are fully correct.  Fortunately there is action in at least 28 states to either prevent CRT and 1619 being taught and or bringing in 1776 curriculum for their schools. I’m grateful to Hillsdale College for taking the lead in this effort and the fine scholarly work they produced.  

Sajak is a well known right winger, and of course the names Limbaugh, Levin and Hewitt are well know right wing extremists. 

Levin even screams at his own audience every day. 

Let me quote from a speech given by a Claremont Institute hack at Hillsdale College in 2018

The Immigration Act of 1965 was a kind of affirmative action plan to provide remedies for those races or ethnic groups that had been discriminated against in the past. Caucasian immigrants from European nations had been given preference in past years; now it was time to diversify the immigrant population by changing the focus to Third World nations, primarily nations in Latin America and Asia. The goal, as some scholars have slowly come to realize, was to diversify the demographic composition of the American population from majority white to a majority of people of color. Hillsdale Commentary: Immigration A Plot To Make Whites Minority And Secure Welfare State | Right Wing Watch

They are or were all mainstream conservatives, nothing extreme about any of them.  

Right wing watch?  Lol!  No bias there….

Vic, the great thing is that the 1776 commission Trump created did not disband after Biden’s executive order but stayed together and got private sponsors and funding and are continuing to produce 1776 materials.  I don’t know if the Hillsdale effort is related to that commission or if they did it on their own. 1776 is in great hands regardless.  

And your point is?

I found out that the original 1776 Presidential commission now private and the Hillsdale 1776 curriculum are two separate and independent groups working on this glorious goal and effort.  

He thinks that by labeling someone as conservative it makes anything they say or do somehow questionable or not legitimate because of it. It’s like our views and ideas are not to be seriously considered. 

the original 1776 Presidential commission now private and the Hillsdale 1776 curriculum are two separate and independent groups

trumpers and thumpers are one and the same, christo-fascists.

Personally, if someone wants to label me label me conservative, I'll wear it proudly!

The other nut jobs I get, but Pat Sajak...like wow.

Another perspective on the topic: 

Hillsdale College’s 1776 Curriculum

On July 19, Hillsdale College released the 1776 Curriculum , a package of American history and civics materials for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The curriculum offers students and teachers a more traditional and patriotic approach to American history than the critical alternatives now prevalent in the nation’s primary and secondary schools.

At nearly 2,500 pages, the 1776 Curriculum is a mammoth collection of teaching materials, offering grade-specific guidance for teachers, assignments and exams for students, and a trove of primary sources from the American founding and beyond. In a press release, Hillsdale’s assistant provost for K-12 education Dr. Katherine O’Toole contrasted what she described as Hillsdale’s “truly American” curriculum with its “partisan” competitors.

“Our curriculum was created by teachers and professors – not activists, not journalists, not bureaucrats,” O’Toole said. “It comes from years of studying America, its history, and its founding principles, not some slap-dash journalistic scheme to achieve a partisan political end through students. It is a truly American education.”

The curriculum includes teaching materials on American civics, government, the American founding, and the Civil War. Hillsdale says that its curriculum will be expanded by the end of 2021 to cover colonial America, the early days of the republic, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, the Great Depression, World Wars I and II, the Cold War, and modern America.

The curriculum’s release comes as schools across the United States adopt teaching materials inspired by the tenets of critical race theory and the New York Times’s 1619 Project, which claims that America’s “founding ideals were false when they were written.”

RealClearEducation asked O’Toole whether the 1776 Curriculum was intended as a response to the 1619 Project. She denied that Hillsdale had any such motivations when creating the program.

“Unlike the 1619 Project and its politicized curricula, the Hillsdale 1776 Curriculum doesn’t use history as a weapon to fight current political battles. Instead, the Hillsdale 1776 Curriculum is a reflection of the honest study of history that has been going on at Hillsdale College and its dozens of affiliated K-12 schools for decades. It’s a content-rich curriculum covering American history, American government, and civics – the complete story of our nation that is honest, inspiring, and unifying,” she said.

While an overtly patriotic American history curriculum might be accused of downplaying sordid facts of the nation’s history, the 1776 Curriculum references slavery nearly 2,000 times. It is forthright in acknowledging the institution as a “glaring” example of America’s failure to live up to “its founding ideas.” To O’Toole and Hillsdale, the question isn’t whether to teach about slavery, but how to teach about it in the context of America’s lofty founding principles.

“[T]he more important thing in American history is that which has endured rather than that which has passed,” O’Toole wrote to teachers in a letter attached to the curriculum. “[T]hat is, America’s founding principles which have outlasted and extinguished from law various forms of evil, such as slavery, racism, and other violations of the equal protection of natural rights.”

In contrast to curricula riddled with impenetrable jargon, the 1776 Curriculum is written in an accessible style for students and teachers. It is also short on prescriptive guidance for teachers and encourages them to read primary-source materials alongside their students. O’Toole told RealClearEducation that the curriculum is open-ended by design and meant to foster an environment of mutual enrichment in the classroom.

“The beauty of our curriculum is that it respects the authority and the role of the teacher as the vehicle through which the students come to understand the material,” she said. “Rather than giving teachers a script to read from – which is demoralizing to the teacher and fails to respect the dignity of the profession – we give teachers the tools to do their own studying and preparation. This ultimately comes to life in a classroom where the curriculum, the teacher, and the student join in pursuit of truth.”

The 1776 Curriculum is also free for public use, according to Hillsdale’s vice president of Washington operations Matthew Spalding.

“[The curriculum is] 85 lessons,” Spalding told Breitbart ’s Alex Marlow. “It’s a full set. It’s free to anybody who wants to use it: homeschoolers, private schools, public schools . . .  states if they want to use it. It’s absolutely free to anybody who wants it.”

The decision to make the curriculum free was rooted in Hillsdale’s view of the importance of civic education. O’Toole told RealClearEducation that nothing less than the future of the American republic hangs in the balance.

“As today’s students are tomorrow’s future leaders, a robust civic education is necessary to ensure students can rise to the challenges of the years to come. They must also be properly equipped with the knowledge of not just their rights and freedoms in our republic, but their duties and responsibilities as well,” she said. “Thankfully, this is precisely what our curriculum seeks to do.”

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Every day, for years, you have posted something with the words 1776, or founding, or founding fathers attached to it. Every day. Are you that unsure of the true history of this country that you have to convince yourself of it every day? 

CRT is  American suicide. It's proponents want to take us back in time to the Pre civil war south where one's race determined one's  identity.  We cannot survive a return to  racial determinism. 

CRT is  American suicide.

Let's not get carried away.

He’s not.  It is a clear and present danger to our future.  

Trump except in direct relation to 1776 policy and his followers are off topic to this seed.  It is about education policy and curriculum. 

That’s not true.  The President of the nations largest teachers Union said it was and that she wanted it taught in every single school district in all 50 states.  

He’s not.  It is a clear and present danger to our future.  

It just isn't.

If we're to believe that something being taught in schools is a clear and present danger to our future, we must first believe that the schools in question are capable of actually teaching anything. 

There is overwhelming evidence to indicate such a belief would be utter folly.

If you're worried about a clear and present danger in American schools, start with the fact that none of the students can do any math at all.

I'm not. This racialist nonsense will have incredibly pernicious results over the decades as the generations who are immersed in it grow to adulthood.  If you think America functioned better when race defined people and that we should just reject  the gains of the civil rights movement, than CRT probably won't bother you. 

If . Tell me, if you as an American adversary, wanted to destroy America from within, how would you do it?  Getting people to believe their racial identity defines them is the start. Teach them that the evil American government and concepts like "capitalism, democracy, meritocracy" were put in place to rig the system against minorities. Teach kids that justice is only achieved on a racial basis. Emphasize every negative thing possible about America and just make up things to make it even worse (country was founded to protect slavery being a perfect example)

It's the most effective way to turn kids against their country. Who would ever sacrifice for the bizarro America CRT indoctrinates kids about. 

We just want honest history. What is taught to kids should be age appropriate, but all students should be taught that America has a long history as a racist nation.  That is the truth beyond any shadow of a doubt.  Children should not be taught otherwise for the sake of someone's idea of patriotism. 

White children can handle the truth although it appears that many of their parents and grandparents cant. 

e just want honest history

the idea that  "progressive" history is not being taught is preposterous.  Liberals have dominated the academy for generations. As I pointed out in our discussion weeks ago, polling  from a  decade ago show that American students found   Harriet Tubman and MLK to be the most admirable Americans.   Ask anyone with kids in school what American they spend the most time on and the answer will be  MLK.  The idea that kids have been  taught some white's only version of history glorifying the founders is a myth.

ts should be taught that America has a long history as a racist natio

That's all you want to teach. That's what you come back to in every discussion. It's not about an honest history, it's about indoctrinating them about the primacy of race. It's a racialist version of history you want to teach kids . It's the mirror image of everything you claim Tucker Carlson wants. 

If . Tell me, if you as an American adversary, wanted to destroy America from within, how would you do it?

I would try to undermine the quality of education in our schools, specifically with regard to math and science, so we graduate people who say shit like "you just pay for it".

Oh...wait.... I wouldn't need to do that, because it's already terrible.

Getting people to believe their racial identity defines them is the start.

So hang on.... you're talking about this destroying America.  You just said it's how America used to be.  You said....

If you think America functioned better when race defined people

If it didn't destroy us back then, why would it be different now? 

Teach them that the evil American government and concepts like "capitalism, democracy, meritocracy" were put in place to rig the system against minorities. Teach kids that justice is only achieved on a racial basis. Emphasize every negative thing possible about America and just make up things to make it even worse (country was founded to protect slavery being a perfect example)

You keep saying "teach".

You clearly assume that:

1. This nonsense is more than a ridiculous fad like teaching "ebonics" classes as an alternative to English.
2. We're teaching kids anything in public schools instead of simply warehousing them until their parents get off work.
3. Young people are politically indoctrinated in school as opposed to just rejecting anything and everything about their parents like kids have done for generations.
4. Public schools could teach something even if they gave it their best effort.
5. Kids are just going to believe any old bullshit the school tells them.

I just don't see any actual evidence to support any of those ideas.

We just want honest history.

Horsefeathers.

You want "history" that confirms your feelings and helps you wallow in your white liberal guilt.  

You have no idea what I do or not want to taught in schools. 

But to be clear its not just school kids. Just look at XX Jefferson. His view of American history is absurd. Multiply him by millions. 

You are exactly right about CRT and 1619.  They are propaganda designed to destroy our nation and to the delegitimization of MLK Jr and his peaceful protest/ civil disobedience and his dream as well.  CRT’s dream is that we will never be judged by the content of our character but will forever and always be judged by the color of our skin at birth.  

The Hillsdale 1776 curriculum is honest history and that is what our kids are going to get.  Period.  

The CRT advocates take time away from teaching the 3 R’s so to speak in elementary school to push their crap on our kids.  In high school all the CRT and transgender propaganda takes away from time to teach math and science. Some states and districts maintain that high end math and lab related science classes are themselves racist.  

You are correct that well in excess of 100,000,000 Americans believe in the traditional 1776 history of our exceptional nation and my goal is to see to it that those numbers only increase and never again decrease.  Thus the stand we’re taking now.  We are grateful to President Trump for taking such a strong stand on this issue and ignoring the blowback resistance to Biden trying to reverse it at the national level.  

The CRT advocates take time away from teaching the 3 R’s so to speak in elementary school to push their crap on our kids.  In high school all the CRT and transgender propaganda takes away from time to teach math and science.

They're not short of time.  They waste mountains of it.

Some states and districts maintain that high end math and lab related science classes are themselves racist.  

Yes.  It's a convenient excuse for not teaching it for the last 20 years.

none of the students can do any math at all.

And can hardly string a coherent sentence together - forget grammar and spelling...

"America's largest teachers' union has announced it backs the teaching of critical race theory in schools, wants to hire staff to 'fight back' against those who oppose CRT, and has called for an October 14 rally to be held in honor of  George Floyd 's birthday." 

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It's that time again. Profess.

That's it. Shoot the messenger instead of admitting you were wrong.

It's that time again.

Great post.  They would have CRT taught everywhere if only they could.  

Nope.  No alcohol for you! 

Nope, that would be R's and Trumpturds.  The stunt yesterday with the Magat in the truck with a bomb is proof of that.

No, that would be Huffington Post.

The Bidencraos are the true danger to our present existence.  

I’m not unsure of anything.  This is about the education of young and future Americans, a cause that I’m fully willing to engage in the culture wars in an all out effort to preserve it (1776 as we know it) come what may. 

And you dont think America's young can be properly educated without you bringing up the founding fathers every day ?   lol. 

I’m just doing my small part to advance 1776 and destroy 1619 as much as one person can.  

I just find it shocking that so many on the left don’t admire our founding fathers and the writings they left us including our Declaration of Independence and constitution, or the independence they declared on our behalf on July 4, 1776, or the aspirational goals they set and the tools they provided so that we over time could be a more perfect Union.  I and like minded will always and forever more honor and venerate what they said and did and will contribute to the continued memorials and memorialization of them.  If today’s secular progressives become offended by that just as the ones at the beginning of the 20th century such as Woodrow Wilson were then so be it.  We won’t yield on this.  

Not every day, just in the proper context for the rest of our history and how they set it all in motion the building of the more perfect Union.  

I just find it shocking that so many on the left don’t admire our founding fathers and the writings they left us including our Declaration of Independence and constitution, or the independence they declared on our behalf on July 4, 1776, or the aspirational goals they set and the tools they provided so that we over time could be a more perfect Union.

Most people that I have heard of admire the Declaration Of Independence and Constitution but recognize those documents had shortcomings related to unequal treatment of racial minorities and women.  

The fact is that you cant stand anyone criticizing your precious founding fathers. Your sense of US history is out of touch with reality. 

No, it’s not.  They are our founding fathers and nothing can change that.  One can not study the history of America with out including the colonial pre independence period 1607-1775 as well as the struggle for and achievement of Independence, the declaration of it, and then the constitutional convention leading to the constitution which became the framework for the most exceptional nation ever born.  The father of the nation who led the revolution, presided over the constitutional convention, became our first President and setting precedent walked away from it all after two terms making him as King George III said, the greatest man in the world at the time.  

This is 2021 , not 1821. Daily reverence for George Washington is neither necessary , or in the cards. 

No one is saying that history students shouldnt be taught about the colonies, the American revolution, the constitution and all of it.  You are the only one objecting to what people want to teach. Whether you like it or not, America has an undeniable history as a racist nation, and young people should learn about that fact as they grow up so it can be prevented in the future. If that sheds a little shade on Washington or Jefferson, too damn bad. 

People who don’t study history don’t benefit from knowing good things that happened that we could learn from or avoid repeating the mistakes made. All of our history needs to be taught from the beginning onward no matter if it’s 1821 or 2221.  Forgetting about our founders and founding means forgetting the foundations of who and what we are as a nation. I and like minded in the 1776 commission or curriculum plan on never ever at any point allowing that to happen.  Our national monuments to our founding fathers and the statuary of them will stand forever.  

 Forgetting about our founders and founding means forgetting the foundations of who and what we are as a nation. I and like minded in the 1776 commission or curriculum plan on never ever at any point allowing that to happen.  Our national monuments to our founding fathers and the statuary of them will stand forever.  

I dont know of anyone who wants to eliminate the Founding Fathers from teaching curriculum. You dont want the other truth about the history of this country taught, because it is embarrassing to many of our national myths. 

That is flat out false.  I want all of our history to objectively be taught in our schools.  That you refer to so much of our history we revere and hold dear as national myths speaks volumes of the intent of 1619 and CRT proponents.  

The progressive history.  Anything America or Americans of the past did that was wrong or a mistake must be thoroughly analyzed and given a complete anal examination and be picked over so that the scab can never heal from the constant rectal obsessions over them.  Meanwhile everything that America or Americans did that was good or beneficial or made us exceptional as a nation particularly the founding fathers actions and words are all national myths.  

So glad I live in Arizona, which is one of 9 states to have totally banned CRT curriculum in the schools in public school systems.

You realize that the actual theory is a legal construct that applies to all of your heritages, right?

It's not exclusive to black heritage.

I beg to differ with you. CRT is a social construct, not a a legal one. Said social construct was the brainchild of a group of leftist liberal academics and legal scholars. Saying that CRT is a legal construct is a contradiction in terms as a theory is a unproven idea and thus has no legal connotation or standing.

Sorry Ed, the American Bar Association disagrees.

americanbar

Now, is there a bastardized connotation of CRT being spread that is all hyperbole and panic?

Absolutely.  But it should not have hijacked the acronym CRT.

(2) examples of legal theories - Bing

You are very lucky to be in such a state.  Where I live whatever mandates on that are largely ignored or kept to a minimum while providing a healthy dose of 1776 oriented history. 

I asked you before and I don't believe you ever answered.

Do Redding schools teach anything about the native Winot Indian farmers in your area ?

and the treachery they suffered at the hands of the new settlers?

THAT is what objectivity is.

Hillsdale College ..... a great Michigan "educational" institution with an interesting history.

It was the first American college to prohibit in its charter any discrimination based on race, religion, or sex, and became an early force for the abolition of slavery.

It was also the second college in the nation to grant four-year liberal arts degrees to women.

Great points.  I’ve been impressed with it since I began receiving their Imprimus publication 30 years ago.  I like it that they take no federal funds at all including student grants/loans of federal origin and thus the federal government has no strings to pull regarding their policies and curriculum.  Independence is a great thing. 

the first American college to prohibit in its charter any discrimination based on race, religion, or sex, and became an early force for the abolition of slavery. It was also the second college in the nation to grant four-year liberal arts degrees to women.

secular progressives don’t care about any of that because just as then they are generally of a conservative nature.