President Trump announced today that he is signing an executive order to create a 1776 commission in order to promote patriotic education and fight back against the 1619 Project which is a false version of US history being taught in schools:
Here’s more from Daily Caller:
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order seeking to reform how U.S. schools teach American history, Trump announced Thursday. The project will reportedly be called “The 1776 Commission.”
President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and a panel of education and history experts spoke in front of America’s founding documents inside the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Trump and education and the panel, headed by Hillsdale College President Dr. Larry Arnn, derided what they called a cynical public school system that teaches students to be ashamed of American history.
Trump had particularly strong words for the 1619 Project, a revisionist version of U.S. history produced by The New York Times Magazine that seeks to put slavery at the center of the American founding.
“Critical race theory, the 1619 Project, and the crusade against American history is toxic propaganda — an ideological poison that, if not removed, will dissolve the civic bonds that tie us together,” Trump said. “The only path to national unity is through our shared identity as Americans. That is why it is so urgent that we finally restore patriotic education to our schools.”
It’s really a shame that it takes a commission to promote teaching children the truth of our founding. Or as Trump calls it, ‘patriotic education’.
Education has really changed from when I was growing up. When I was young I didn’t give a flip about US history, but I do remember being taught proper history and not this toxic, socialistic version that these radicals are pushing. I also remember being taught that evolution was a theory, but according to kids today it’s a FACT.
You can watch Trump’s full comments below on his announcement today: