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We can still teach children the myths of yore. Children still love the stories of Johnny Appleseed and stories about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. I teach pre-kindergarten and I can assure you that children I have not changed. We simply don't ask our teachers or even encourage our teachers to teach any of that anymore. And in some places a teacher might be disciplined for teaching it. Instead, they are asked to teach children about racial identity and/or gender identity. In most public schools at the elementary level, children have heard about racial discrimination and have heard something about gender identity before they know the name George Washington. Because we no longer teach any history in elementary school unless it's racial justice oriented or environmentalism oriented or gender oriented. We do not have history books. We do not have geography. We do not teach content anymore unless it's ideologically based period.

Parents need to start asking their local schools why their fourth graders NEVER bring text books home to read or to study. Not even articles to study. Not ever. If parents do not care enough to demand schools teach content, real academic content, it will never come back.

And soon, there won't even be teachers who know any of it to teach it at all. We're not too far from that point.

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