Fight the woke indoctrination of children

A fifth-grade social-studies teacher in Philadelphia recently forced students to celebrate Black History Month by honoring “black communism” and Angela Davis, a communist activist and former Black Panther. The news created a stir on social media but should come as no surprise to those who have followed the radical agenda infecting every level of America’s public education system. Citizens must resist this toxic trend by combating it in their school boards, state legislatures, and children’s classrooms.

We believe our children’s education should be based on scholarship and facts, and should nurture their development into the happy, resilient, free-thinking, educated citizens every democracy needs. Our classrooms should include rigorous instruction in history, civics, literature, math, the sciences, and the ideas and values that enrich our country.

Efforts like the New York Times’ 1619 Project, which dates America’s founding to the arrival of the first slave ship in Virginia, have spread this ideology nationwide. The project seeks to “reframe” American history through the lens of slavery, teaching readers to reject our founding and principles as racist and fraudulent.

Such views of American history are based on Critical Race Theory, which uses Marxist techniques to divide Americans and pit them against one another, framing some as oppressors and others as oppressed. It judges people not by their individual abilities, talents, and accomplishments but by physical characteristics. It breeds discord among Americans by stoking resentments among the groups, making them ripe for manipulation.