Is our children learning? Republicans hope the answer is 'no.'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Opinion by Dana Milbank

Pretty much everything the Trump-occupied Republican Party has been doing these days violates the basic tenets of democracy that American schoolchildren are taught.

But the Trumpy right has come up with an elegant remedy to relieve the cognitive dissonance: They want to cancel civics education. If the voters don’t know how the government is supposed to function, they’ll be none the wiser when it malfunctions — which has been pretty much all the time.

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How do they get away with such fundamental violations of America’s democratic traditions? Well, maybe it’s because only a quarter of U.S. students are proficient in civics, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress. And apparently, the right wants to keep it that way.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/17/is-our-children-learning-republicans-hope-answer-is-no/

[BootinUp]

1. Education is a lynchpin

Of society. They need to stop f’in with it.

[elleng]

2. They've been doing it for years.

[Harker]

4. Yep. From textbooks to curricula to vouchers. n/t

[littlemissmartypants]

3. Not about grammar, apparently. nt

[Harker]

5. How will these children, as adults, put food on their families?

I still loathe Bush. Making him look better by comparison isn't working with me.