Lessons for children insist that an engaged citizen ‘can only effect change through demonstration’
By WND Staff
State education bureaucrats routinely set “standards” for schools to include certain things in their classrooms for students to learn.
But too often, they are reflecting an agenda or ideology, not the simple facts, according to a report at the Federalist.
For instance, even in Republican majority Alaska, its latest iteration of requirements, dated just last year, have no mention of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and even Christianity.
“Alaska’s new social studies standards don’t mention the Nome Gold Rush. They don’t mention the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. They don’t mention William Egan, the state of Alaska’s first governor, and they don’t mention Sarah Palin, who ran for Vice President of the United States. There’s a lot more that’s missing in the Alaska social studies standards, but you can tell right away that something is wrong when Alaska’s social studies standards leave Alaska’s children ignorant of the headlines of Alaska’s history and the most famous Alaskans,” the report explained.
“The names of Christopher Columbus, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln are absent. But so are words like Christianity, Protestantism, and Catholicism; any hint that technological advance might have improved Americans’ standard of living; and virtually all of the narrative, events, and heroes of America’s wars.”
The report noted those bureaucrats appear to be on “radical autopilot” for those social studies standards.