cause , “ white supremacy culture ,” as part of professional development . The effort to re-educate the nation ’ s teachers in the left ’ s radical image will also likely be accelerated due to the protests .
The same national union runs a division solely dedicated to advancing Black Lives Matter and encouraging identity politics in schools . During that same meeting , the National Education Association failed to pass a resolution pledging to “ re-dedicate [ the union ] to the pursuit of increased student learning ,” ostensibly its purpose for existence .
Out of the 100 largest school districts , precisely none have the words “ America ” or “ patriotism ” in their mission statements . This fact is even more shocking when one considers the public school system was originally created to teach American citizens how to preserve the republic they had been bequeathed .
Noah Webster , one of the country ’ s earliest textbook publishers and education advocates , wrote of a future American public school system : “ begin with the infant in the cradle , let the first word he lisps be ‘ Washington .’” Now the public school system teaches students to view the “ indispensable man ” as , foremost and unforgivably , a slaveholder .
Two thirds of millennials believe that America is a racist and sexist country and close to 40 percent think the United States is “ among the most unequal societies in the world .”
MARXIST COLLEGE GRADS DESCEND UPON SOCIETY If elementary and secondary schools lay the foundation , colleges and universities , now attended by 40 percent of young Americans , provide the activist training to turn passive beliefs into action . The cultural revolutionaries produced by our education system then advance into corporations , tech startups , Hollywood , sports , and of course , media .
If conservatives ever believed the canard that safe-space social justice warriors would implode on impact with the “ real world ,” now ’ s the time to forget that happy notion . They ’ re not John Mayer , waiting on the world to change ; they ’ re remaking the world as they see fit , consistent with what they ’ ve been taught from K-12 to the highest echelons of learning .
Is it any surprise that we ’ re now seeing 1619 in the streets ? The anti-American ideas of the radical left have already won nearly everywhere else .
Where the right finds itself today is a direct consequence of its appalling failure to take culture , and the institutions that shape it , at least as seriously as it takes tax cuts , deregulation , and economic growth . I like taking home more of my paycheck as much as the next person , but minor economic reforms will not change the overall trajectory of the country if its schools and academies continue to preach disunion instead of e pluribus unum .
Two thirds of millennials believe that America is a racist and sexist country and close to 40 percent think the United States is “ among the most unequal societies in the world .” Not just racist and sexist , but uniquely so : this is the historically-illiterate worldview of the graduates of our nation ’ s education system .
Some Americans might comfort themselves with the notion that this is a passing madness , but it is instead the inescapable consequence of what is being taught from kindergarten through graduate school . A nation that teaches its children to hate their country cannot endure . A nation that pays out $ 700 billion a year , and trillions in taxpayer-financed student loans , to train future citizens to see their country as hopelessly and irreparably racist cannot continue .
If the justice at the heart of the American project is no longer taught in the education system , there will be no peace . ■
Inez Feltscher Stepman is a senior contributor at The Federalist . She is also a senior policy analyst at Independent Women ’ s Forum and the Thursday editor of BRIGHT , a women ’ s newsletter . Find her on Twitter @ inezfeltscher .
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