We have not only a severe lack of pride, gratitude, and love for country, but a shocking level of ignorance regarding basic US history. We complain about socialism, wokeism, beta males, radical feminists, anti-american college students, but they don’t just suddenly become that way when they sign up for their freshman classes.
Public schools do not teach basic solid civics courses. They don’t learn what it really meant to risk everything, start a revolution, and found a new country. Half of them think Benjamin Franklin was a president and the other half don’t know who he was at all. They don’t know the constitution, the bill of rights, and probably have never heard of the federalist papers. They think separation of church and state is in the constitution. They think the US alone is the only country guilty of slavery and was founded for that purpose, and therfore should be condemned totally as an evil rascist country with no opportunities. The sacrifices of the American Revolution, the Civil War, WWI amd WWII, Korea, Vietnam - all forgotten or scorned.
At some point we stopped teaching the youth what it means to be an American citizen, what was sacrificed for them, and why America, while not perfect, IS the greatest nation on earth.
- All public schools should be required to teach a civics course that fully covers the founding over the nation in a truthful way that:
A. Inspires Ideas, Gratitude, and Hope
B. Nurtures love of country
C. Creates excitement for opportunity - Public schools should teach the Constitution and Bill of Rights exploring the importamce of those documents in our modern society and what makes them unique.
- Public schools should teach US flag etiquette and the story and meaning behind the national anthem.
- Public schools should teach why immigrants seek to come to the US and what makes our country so different from those in other hemispheres.
If students are taught foundational US civics and national pride, they will have a better foundtion when they head to college and may very well become and remain patriotic and do their best to preserve, protect, and improve this country rather than tear it down and destroy it.