Thread by @bansisharma

1. McConnell's Stinging Letter to Education Secretary Cardona
cnn.com/2021/04/30/pol…

2. "Our nation's youth do not need activist indoctrination that fixates solely on past flaws and [sows divisiveness]. Taxpayer-supported programs should emphasize the shared civic virtues that bring us together, not push radical agendas that tear us apart."

3. "Your Proposed Priorities applaud the New York Times's "1619 Project." This campaign to "reframe the country's history, understanding 1619 as our true founding" has become infamous for putting ill-informed advocacy ahead of historical accuracy."

4. "Actual, trained, credentialed historians with diverse political views have debunked the project's many factual and historical errors, such as the bizarre and inaccurate notion that preserving slavery was a primary driver of the American Revolution."

5. "One renowned historian called the project "so wrong in so many ways." Citing this debunked advocacy confirms that your Proposed Priorities would not focus on critical thinking or accurate history, but on spoon-feeding students a slanted story."

6. "Americans do not need or want their tax dollars diverted from promoting the principles that unite our nation toward promoting radical ideologies meant to divide us. This trend is already sweeping through K-12 schools nationwide in absurd ways."

7. The Oregon Department of Education has advertised an "anti-racist math" workshop run by an organization which teaches that "white supremacy culture shows up in math classrooms" when "the focus is only on getting the 'right' answer."

8. "California's new statewide model curriculum urges teachers to lead students in a "Unity Chant" that prays to Aztec deities for "decolonization." Curriculum documents from New York discuss "cis-gender privilege" and "disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family.""

9. "Families did not ask for this divisive nonsense. Voters did not vote for it. Americans never decided our children should be taught that our country is inherently evil."

10. "If your Administration had proposed actual legislation instead of trying to do this quietly through the Federal Register, that legislation would not pass Congress."

11. "We request that you withdraw these Proposed Priorities and refocus on civic education and American history programs that will empower future generations of citizens to continue making our nation the greatest force for good in human history."

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