Teachers have stood by and allowed our national discourse to be hijacked by those who would seek to radically alter our nation’s foundations and character. Since the 1960s, we’ve been teaching students that self-flagellation and outright hatred of our nation and its history is the more noble and preferred view. Any good our nation has accomplished is cast aside and forgotten, despite the fact that in the darkest of times, America has served as a beacon of light for many throughout the world.
We continually highlight the heinous errors of our collective past rather than celebrate our wondrous accomplishments in spite of them. We seem to be throwing the idea of judging people by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin onto the ash heap of history, replacing it with a laser focus on ethnicity and feels over all that would unite us.
We no longer teach civic education rightly understood – the tenets of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S Constitution, and the importance of civil engagement. Rather, too many teachers disparage our founding documents as fundamentally racist and xenophobic and pass this biased view on to students. In rejecting the nobility of those documents, teachers sow division rather than love of country, the three most loathsome words in modern education today. The notion that one should espouse a love of country is no longer considered merely quaint; it is outright rejected. Supposedly, a love of country harkens back to the beginning of the twentieth century, where it caused two world wars, countless insurgencies, and rampant western imperialism.
