Posted on 09/08/2020 8:02:24 PM PDT by bitt
President Trump on Sunday said the Department of Education was investigating whether California public schools will teach a curriculum based on the New York Times’ controversial “1619 Project” — and threatened to defund them.
“Department of Education is looking at this. If so, they will not be funded!” the president wrote on Twitter, linking to a post that said California had implemented the program.
The New York Times Magazine ran the series in 2019 to mark the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first slave ship in America, purporting to “reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.”
The newspaper was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for its collection of essays, and the Pulitzer Center was named an education partner to develop resources for schools to teach the project.
But the series has come under fire by some scholars for factual errors.
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Thank you, Pres Trump!
Stuff like this is why I support Trump.
I hope Trump does not walk back or modify this.
He will be heavily criticized for days at a time.
I hope Trump does not walk back or modify this.
He will be heavily criticized for days at a time.
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Better to be criticized for playing offense on the issues than for tweeting personal attacks.
Same here.
No funding for lies??? What??? Truth exposed!!!
Thank you Mr. President!
Colleges should also be subjec to this. Let’s face it, the brainwashing begins in primary school, but is completed at colleges. Dry up grants and loans, and they’ll get their own houses in order quite quickly.
The philosophical doctrines consulted for founding this country already placed master and slave on the same natural plain of existence. Following the beginning of the rebellion, the country had already seen six of thirteen colonies free slaves and two others abolish the international slave trade when the Constitution was written. Such colonial initiatives were prohibited under British rule, which preserved this system of bondage as applied worldwide since antiquity.
Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, suffered a painful ordeal as the Continental Congress made his work their own. His draft at 1704 words was 366 words longer than the final. The Congress proceeded to add 253 words, and remove or change the phrasing for 792 words, so he saw about 60% of his work transformed. Among passages removed was a ;long section that complained the mercantile system imposed on the colonies demanded the importation of slavery to the New World.
What is going on in colleges is far worse than what is going on in K-12 (which is bad enough).
Somewhere out there is a federal judge just waiting to rule against the president and force the administration to fund those schools. Wait and see...
How about taking the school’s certification also?
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