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American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten recently proclaimed that her union members have a right to teach \u201chonest history<\/a>\u201d in government classrooms. But putting politicians, bureaucrats, and union zealots in charge of a curriculum is the worst recipe for candor. Rather than truth, the likely result will be vaccinating young Americans from recognizing how Leviathan imperils their liberty<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Weingarten\u2019s protests were spurred by the backlash in some states against Critical Race Theory (CRT), the latest politically correct fad from activist educators. CRT received a steroid boost from the New York Times\u2019 <\/em>1619 series, which ludicrously claimed that the American Revolution was fought to preserve slavery (AIER\u2019s Phil Magness debunked that charade in many articles and in this book<\/a>). According to Weingarten and other CRT proponents, American schools criminally ignore the racial abuses in American history. However, the vast majority of state curriculums already teach that slavery was an abomination and a national disgrace.<\/p>\n

Weingarten boasted, \u201cWe teach history, not hate<\/a>.\u201d But, for decades, teachers and government schools have dismally failed to teach students history. Surveys show that most public school students are historically illiterate, clueless on the key events and major issues of American history. Public schools have long disdained mere historical facts, preferring instead vapid narratives that resemble \u201cgood versus evil\u201d fairy tales. Because students are mostly clueless on history, they are blank slates ready to be indoctrinated with any claptrap that schools hustle.<\/p>\n

The real \u201chistory problem\u201d is that schools have done such a dreadful job of teaching reading that fewer children are able to discover the joys of history on their own<\/strong>. Student test scores in one Baltimore class show that almost half the juniors<\/a> in high school were reading at second- and third-grade levels, as Project Baltimore recently revealed. Jeffrey Zwillenberg of Reading Partners Baltimore commented: \u201cReading is that one fundamental skill<\/a> that unlocks all others.\u201d But the dismal failure of urban schools to teach reading practically assures that victimized students will be locked into a rut for their lives. Vast numbers of students will be forever unable to learn on their own and thus will be ready tools for propaganda.<\/p>\n

But that is not necessarily a problem for educator activists more enthused on shaping values than imparting skills. In the late 1970s, the National Education Association (NEA) denounced back-to-basics as \u201cirrelevant and reactionary<\/a>.\u201d Richard Mitchell noted in his 1981 classic, The Graves of Academe<\/em><\/a>, that the NEA corrupted public schools because its members \u201cwanted to be not teachers but preachers, and prophets<\/a> too, charging themselves with the cure of the soul of democracy and the raising up in the faith of true believers.\u201d Government schools suffice with making kids feel virtuous (or guilty, in the case of CRT) in lieu of making them literate.<\/p>\n

No knowledge of history is necessary for students to become obedient tools for teachers\u2019 agendas. Weingarten, in a 2019 speech to AFT members, proclaimed, \u201cAmerica\u2019s public school educators are change agents<\/a>.\u201d On the same day of her \u201chonest history\u201d speech, the AFT announced its new initiative \u2013 \u201cEducating for Democratic Citizenship,\u201d including \u201caction civics\u201d for children. As the National Association of Scholars\u2019 John Sailer observed, \u201caction civics\u201d is an \u201cincreasingly trendy form of civics pedagogy [which] requires students to find an issue, research the \u2018root cause,\u2019 and then advocate for their proposed<\/a> solutions,\u201d such as creating \u201ca political action plan to enlist local or state authorities to adopt their proposed policy.\u201d Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg is the prototype for such activism, and \u201caction civics\u201d could produce millions of students enraged that society is not speedily destroying capitalism (and everything else?) to meet their clueless yet righteous demands.<\/p>\n

Government history textbooks are not immaculate revelations handed down from Mt. Sinai. Instead, politicians appoint the bureaucrats who select the textbooks, and bureaucrats survive by keeping politicians happy. Thus, children learn that politicians are mostly honorable public servants devoted to benefitting people under their sway.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t expect school history texts to edify children on how the Roosevelt administration\u2019s socialist policies and other schizoid interventions prolonged the Great Depression. School textbooks portray the Korean War as a well-intentioned intervention to stop the onslaught of communism and minimize or completely ignore disclosures in recent decades of numerous U.S. massacres<\/a> of Korean civilians. School textbooks\u2019 portrayal of the Vietnam War give short shrift (if any) to the Pentagon Papers\u2019 revelations that every president from Harry Truman to Lyndon Johnson profoundly deceived the American<\/a> people about that futile conflict. Textbooks also omit the chilling insight from David Hackworth, a retired colonel and the most decorated officer in the Army, who declared, \u201cVietnam was an atrocity from the get-go\u2026. There were hundreds of My Lais. You got your card punched by the numbers of bodies you counted.\u201d Nor is it prudent to expect textbooks to accurately portray the perpetual pious shams<\/a> (\u201cWe\u2019re bombing to uphold the rights of women and girls\u201d) that sanctified the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Instead, school textbooks will portray well-meaning politicians who sometimes made honest mistakes, regardless of how many American soldiers and hapless foreigners pointlessly die.<\/p>\n

Government schools offer slanted versions of history that many students will perceive as a catechism. Though certain beliefs may not be formally mandated, disbelief will often be penalized. Will students who say that slavery was not the sole cause of the Civil War be flunked? Will pupils who condemn the Federal Reserve for destroying the purchasing power of the dollar be castigated?<\/p>\n

The perils of politicized narratives are even greater with history in the making. Weingarten declared that \u201claws restricting what we teach impinge on educators\u2019 professional obligations\u2026to teach current events, like the January 6 attack on the Capitol.\u201d Weingarten told her union members: \u201cI was in my office as the insurrectionists stormed the Capitol\u2026 some with the intention of harming and even killing elected officials.\u201d The only person who was gunned down that day was an unarmed female protestor killed by a Capitol policeman who shot her at point-blank range. The hard facts of January 6 are still being thrashed out in government audit reports and in more than 500 court cases (many of which are vexing federal prosecutors<\/a>, according to the Washington Post<\/em>).<\/p>\n

January 6 is the perfect example of why teachers should keep their political opinions out of the classroom. Teachers are not hired as pundits to blather on any and all subjects; instead, they are paid to convey specific skills to students. Unfortunately, many teachers nowadays are too busy proselytizing to correct their students\u2019 grammar errors.<\/p>\n

For teachers\u2019 unions, the CRT uproar is a welcome distraction from the debacles permeating public school. For many students, government schooling is akin to being lashed into a dentist\u2019s chair where the mind-numbing drilling never ends. President Biden has an easy solution: \u201cWe\u2019re going to provide four additional years<\/a> of school to everyone in America \u2014 two years of universal pre-school and two years of free community college.\u201d Schools\u2019 failure becomes a debit card entitling government to commandeer more years of citizens\u2019 lives.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trusting politicians to teach children honest history is like relying on plantation owners to teach slaves how to read. The best lesson young Americans could receive from studying history is a radical skepticism of officialdom and all its hokum. Virtue signaling is no substitute for learning how to defend one\u2019s rights and liberties.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16216,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16214\/revisions\/16216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}