College releases '1776 Curriculum' to fight back against critical race theory
By: Michael Lee
This is great news in the struggle to stop socialism and big brother controlling the curriculum of our children with CRT and the 1619 project. Nanny state school boards in some districts are totally ignoring and running roughshod with no dissent allowed in imposing statist historical revisions and propaganda upon our children. They are trying to create a new reality as to who we are, what we were, and the values and traditions we will be allowed to follow and uphold. The 1776 effort is a pro America pro American effort to keep our history true and free from big brother propaganda. America is an exceptional nation, a beacon of light shining upon a dark world, a nation that is out of many one, one nation under God, indivisible that recognizes the divine Providence in our founding and that we were crated equals in His sight and that He is the source of all our inalienable rights including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. God bless America!
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Hillsdale College released what it is calling the "1776 Curriculum," which is designed to give K-12 teachers the tools to teach students a more patriotic approach to American history.
"Our curriculum was created by teachers and professors – not activists, not journalists, not bureaucrats," Dr. Kathleen O’Toole, the assistant provost for K-12 education at Hillsdale, said in a press release . "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 offers nearly 2,500 pages of materials, broken down into grade-specific lessons, while offering guidance to teachers.
The materials stand in stark contrast to the New York Times' 1619 Project, which has gained popularity at some schools as a movement toward more race-based education has gripped the country.
"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.
"The more important thing in American history is that which has endured rather than that which has passed," O’Toole wrote in a letter to teachers attached to the materials. "That 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."
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Hillsdale College is a right wing school affiliated with the far right Claremont Institute. Enough said.
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 ]
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
And your point is?
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.
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.
Let's not get carried away.
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.
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.
So hang on.... you're talking about this destroying America. You just said it's how America used to be. You said....
If it didn't destroy us back then, why would it be different now?
You keep saying "teach".
You clearly assume that:
I just don't see any actual evidence to support any of those ideas.
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.
They're not short of time. They waste mountains of it.
Yes. It's a convenient excuse for not teaching it for the last 20 years.
And can hardly string a coherent sentence together - forget grammar and spelling...
It's that time again. Profess.
That's it. Shoot the messenger instead of admitting you were wrong.
It's that time again.
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.
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.
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
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.