Democrats Want $30 Million for ‘Civics’ Bill That’s Really About Funding Student Protests
“the real goal of the new ‘civics’ is to get students protesting and lobbying for leftist political goals on school time”
This bill is being pushed as ‘civics’ education. It’s really about funding protests to influence politics.
Stanley Kurtz writes at National Review:
Dems Want $30 Million for Student Protests
House Democrats are offering a bill ludicrously titled the “Civics Learning Act of 2021” to fund the likewise misnamed enterprise of “action civics.” The price tag is $30 million a year. Whether it’s called “action civics,” “civic engagement,” or “project-based civics,” the real goal of the new “civics” is to get students protesting and lobbying for leftist political goals on school time, and now on the federal dime.
The Civics Learning Act has 49 co-sponsors to date, all Democrats. That tells you a lot. Just last week I slammed three former Republican secretaries of Education for endorsing the “Educating for American Democracy” initiative, a supposedly bipartisan project in fact controlled by the country’s leading leftist proponents of action civics. Too many Republicans are lulled by bogus calls for national unity via “civics” into endorsing a movement that sponsors one-sided political protests in our schools. Meanwhile the same action-civics advocates who send students out to protest and lobby for policies they’ve never studied from both sides are busy pushing divisive Critical Race Theory at America’s teachers.
If you read the various components of the “Educating for American Democracy” (EAD) report, you’ll see that action civics (where students protest and lobby for things like gun control and the Green New Deal) and “service learning” (where students intern with leftist community organizations) are mentioned, but downplayed. You find these practices endorsed but relegated to appendices, or buried in the studies the report relies on but keeps to end-notes. The authors of EAD are the leading advocates of action civics in the country. They know it’s controversial, however, so they play it down.
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We need a well crafted law to make it illegal for taxpayer funded educational institutions, especially those that people have to attend such as K-12, to provide official support to political activism. Do that stuff on your own time, with your own money, in your own place!
The civil rights and anti-Vietnam war movements (simultaneous) had a good cause, but most student-led protest is in the direction of communism.