If You Liked Common Core, You’re Going To Love Joe Biden’s Civics – The Federalist

Its deja vu all over again. A coalition of government- and billionaire-funded nonprofits has a bipartisan plan for national curriculum goals, this time concerning U.S. history and government. Today this state-led coalition is releasing a major report they hope will get the attention of the Biden administration and state governors to collaboratively enact their vision nationwide.

Remember, these sorts of national plans are supported by people on the right and left, so there can be no need for further investigation or any public questioning. The experts have got this problem all figured out. Your children and the nations future are in their hands. Trust them, these are experts under whose leadership the nations civic and historical knowledge not only hasnt improved but may be at the worst point in possibly all of American history, because of oops, I mean in spite of their best efforts!

More than 300 leading scholars have spent 17 months putting together a roadmap for what and how to teach integrated K-12 history and civics for todays learners. Its a cross-ideological conversation about civic learning and history at a time when our country needs it the most, so dont worry your pretty little heads about anything and let the experts sort it out! What could go wrong?

What, you heard that the Smithsonian is saturating its exhibits and materials with social-justice saturated fake history and forking over good taxpayer money for racist propaganda, and therefore youre a bit concerned about their involvement in this project? Whats wrong with you, the Smithsonian is an old and venerable American institution! Republican senators are putting billions of dollars behind its promotion of cultural Marxism!

Did we mention this project is also bipartisan? The education secretaries for Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama are all on board, of course. They presided over a massive decline in U.S. education quality and increase in bureaucracy, so you know its a good idea!

The DC uniparty has just the perfect solution for American kids dangerous ignorance about their nations founding principles, system of government, and history. Its making them into political activists! Its called action civics. Isnt that exciting? Sandra Day OConnor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg were big fans. Remember them? So are Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, those models of respect for the U.S. Constitution!

No, kids dont need to know anything to lobby their local, state, and national governments, that would ruin the effect.Everyone knows learning is boring! Whats fun is action! Action civics! You know, like the nation saw in the past year or so, all those refreshing young people protesting in the streets for racial justice.

Thats the kind of civic entrepreneurship were looking for, not the boring conventional entrepreneurship these civic entrepreneurs destroyed to the tune of an estimated $2 billion. Thats old news, just like the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Didnt you hear those were written by slaveowners like George Washington to keep black people in chains?

No, what we want is democracy. Thats why this project is called Educating for American Democracy. Out with that old constitutional republic stuff, its so racist. RAY-CIST. Whats new and hip is a living constitution, just like RBG fought for. The Educating for American Democracy Project has a brilliant new report, see, all about why the nations dearth of civic knowledge demands a solution from cooperative federalism, just like Common Core was the obvious solution to the nations shamefully poor-quality math and English education!

Even though this initiative is being created in almost exactly the same way the Common Core rules for math and English were created, this is nothing at all like Common Core. For one thing, it was created by committees of unelected participants funded partially by government and partially by private organizations not subject to transparency laws like open meetings and open records requests. Wait, thats just like Common Core.

But this is NOT, let me repeat, NOT a national curriculum at all. Its only a set of guidelines, lesson plans, curriculum design frameworks, and stuff like that just like Common Core. Um, I mean This is just like Common Core but its totally NOT AT ALL LIKE COMMON CORE. Just trust me, brand-name Republicans are involved. Just like with Common Core!

Why would anyone on the right oppose this almost every single committee for this project includes the one conservative guy we could find to put his name on this thing so we could introduce him to Republicans nervous about this idea. Okay, actually, its maybe 10 conservatives out of more than 300. Theyre not really always comfortable identifying themselves, not sure why, especially since they are paid to be cross-partisan, just like those super-useful Never Trumpers we rent out for special events at a great discount.

Regardless, 10 conservatives would never get steamrolled on a project like this, right? Just ask the five genuine subject-area experts who signed onto the Common Core project and then retracted their support after it in no way resembled defensible curriculum requirements. They werent used and then discarded in a cynical attempt to hide this projects flaws under the veneer of transpartisanship until it was too late. No way. Lefties never do that to conservatives. Ever.

No way action civics will get into place in states and then this project will be cited as the reason for far-left curriculum like that already happening in Massachusetts under the test run for this national project. That was touted as bipartisan, too, and run by the many of same people and organizations that are about to boost this national project.

Too bad, conservatives, you kicked at Leftist Lucys football again, ha! Thanks for playing! We love this game. Kick again, please! Were counting on it.

I mean, Common Core was foisted on states by the Obama administration in exchange for federal funds. Joe Biden was there when that happened, and he would never govern like Obama, now, would he? No way, hes way more aggressive than Obama was! And he yanked that divisive 1776 Commission Report on his first day in office, so you know his U.S. Department of Education supports what is best for children, not all that jingoistic loving your country crap!

Unity in hating America, thats the goal here, and weve almost achieved it. We just need a bit more tinkering, okay, we havent got the formula quite right yet, those insurrectionist Trump voters are clouding Republican senators view a bit too much still. Weve almost trained some to swat them away like gnats. John Cornyn, for sure. Just a few more years of cranked-up indoctrination combined with open borders in Texas, and Beto can finally replace him.

So for the sake of unity, just go along with reinforcing public schools as leftist indoctrination factories. Sing kumbaya with us and none of your precious little public school funds will get threatened. You wouldnt want anything to happen to that money, would you? Its for the children. And civics. Conservatives like civics, right? Pay no attention to all the leftists behind the curtain.

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