🚨 America’s next education battle isn’t over STEM.
It’s over civics.
Who gets to teach your kids what America is — a land of freedom, or a “system of oppression”?
A growing movement of conservatives is fighting back with a civics revolution.
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2/ For decades, civics was forgotten.
After the 1960s, schools pushed STEM, while teaching kids very little abt the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, or the Bill of Rights.
Result? Millions of students graduated with no idea how government works or how to be good citizens.
3/ The Left filled that vacuum.
🔹 1619 Project
🔹 SPLC’s “Teaching Tolerance”
🔹 BLM at School
🔹 Ethnic studies rooted in CRT
Their goal: recast America as irredeemably racist, sexist, and oppressive.
Instead of learning citizenship, kids were taught hate and resentment.
4/ But now, civics is making a comeback.
Conservatives are reviving classic civics education — the Constitution, Lincoln, Douglass, King — while updating it with rigorous debate, philosophy, and primary sources.
No nostalgia. No cynicism. Just truth.
5/ For example: at the Jack Miller Center, teachers spend a week studying:
📜 Aristotle & Cicero
📜 The Founders
📜 Lincoln & Douglass
📜 MLK, W.E.B. Du Bois, even Malcolm X
Real history. Real debate. Real America.
6/ Here’s why it matters:
The Left says America was founded on oppression.
Civics rooted in the founding reminds kids America was founded on universal principles — liberty, equality, natural rights.
Not perfectly applied - nothing ever is - but worth fighting to extend.
7/ This was exactly Martin Luther King's point. He didn't hate America. He called America to live up to its founding principles.
He thought those principles were the foundation of liberty and human dignity.
He was right.
8/ Civics programs are exploding:
✅ 28 states now have civics assessments
✅ 14 use the national citizenship test
✅ 45 states debated 198 civics bills this summer
✅ Universities are opening civics schools with real funding
The movement is growing fast.
9/ And it works.
When kids read the Declaration or Federalist Papers for themselves, they learn America’s story wasn’t written by slogans — but by struggle, argument, and ideals.
Teach them that, and you form citizens, not activists.
10/ Make no mistake: the Left knows this is the battlefield.
That’s why they scream “white supremacy” when you teach the Constitution.
They don’t want kids to know their rights, or how they got them. They want kids to smoulder on their grievances.
11/ The civics revolution is here.
Conservatives are rebuilding education on America’s founding truths, the truths that made us the greatest nation in the world.
Because if our kids don’t learn freedom, they’ll lose it.
And if they do learn it? The Left loses everything.
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