Next Fourth of July, America will turn 250. In the lead up to this celebration, the Trump administration has the coming school year to ensure every American child has an education that celebrates America and a future citizenry that will uphold free self-government.
Trump’s Department of Education recently kicked off its preparation for this commemoration with an announced grant program for seminars on history and civics. The idea is to invite universities with “civic thought centers” — codeword for “conservative beachheads in large leftist state universities” — to receive federal funds to put on seminars in history and civics. Following upon this success, the White House launched “The Story of America” video series for schools on the historical events leading up to the American Founding. Fine opening salvos for placing American K-12 education on a war footing.
“Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.” So did the American Founders decree in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, predating the Constitutional Convention itself by several months. America’s schools are publicly supported, even by the federal government, to ensure good government, and always have been.
Even as the president sunsets the Department of Education, he can fulfill his original executive orders on patriotic, back-to-basics education for resisting and overcoming radical ideology bent on destroying the American experiment in representative self-government. And he can do so to celebrate America’s 250th Birthday. Here’s how.
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