Thread by @JuddLegum

1. A Pennsylvania school district has implemented a new social studies curriculum that requires teachers to incorporate right-wing propaganda

The curriculum was developed in part by a $125/hour "educational consultant" who describes himself as a "fox in the hen house"

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2. The curriculum was developed by Jordan Adams, who has no degrees in education & no experience developing curriculum for public schools

Adams graduated from @Hillsdale College and was employed by Hillsdale to promote its controversial 1776 Curriculum

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@Hillsdale 3. The curriculum developed by Adams requires teachers to incorporate numerous lessons from @Hillsdale's curriculum

One required lesson emphasizes the Founding Fathers, including Madison and Washington, "expressed regret and fear of divine retribution for slavery in America"

@Hillsdale 4. Not mentioned: Madison chose to “not free his slaves in his will,” instead leaving them to his wife, who “sold them off to pay debts."

Washington “ordered an enslaved man to be whipped for walking on the lawn” and “aggressively pursued runaway” slaves.

@Hillsdale 5. Another Hillsdale lesson required for 9th graders argues that the phrase "all men are created equal" actually referred to men AND WOMEN, despite the fact that women were denied the right to vote and had limited property rights.

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@Hillsdale 6. The required Hillsdale lesson waives away these concerns saying “[w]hat was unique to America was the right to vote at all and then the relatively rapid rate at which the right to vote was expanded to” women.

This is highly misleading.

@Hillsdale 7. According to Pew Research Center, in 1893, New Zealand granted women the right to vote, and “[a]t least 19 other countries also did so prior to the U.S. passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.”

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@Hillsdale 8. The new curriculum also rationalizes withholding the right to vote from women, insinuating that it was logical because only men “would be called to give their lives up for their country” and “had a high personal stake in what the country did."

@Hillsdale 9. This is why Hillsdale's 1776 Curriculum has been the subject of intense criticism by academic experts.

“What they also are trying to do is replace an approach to teaching that teaches students how to think with an approach that teaches the students what to think.”

@Hillsdale 10. Adams, meanwhile, appeared at a private forum for hosted by @Moms4Liberty and bragged that the "the right people are freaking out" about his contract with Pennridge Schools.

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@Hillsdale @Moms4Liberty 11. REMINDER: If you value accountability journalism, you don't need to rely on a platform controlled by a right-wing billionaire and conspiracy theorist to get it.

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