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“To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country…if we don’t, someone else will run our country.”
– Richard Dreyfuss

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“To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country…if we don’t, someone else will run our country.”
– Richard Dreyfuss

[link to www.thedreyfussinitiative.org]


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Great video, Troitcity. Thanks for posting it. While I don't agree with everything that was said by Tucker and Dreyfuss in the segment, I think it was an excellent discussion of real issues.

While I don't agree with sanctuary cities and believe they need to be gone, I really don't believe with the federal government threatening to withhold federal funds from states. This has been done through the years to force states to raise the drinking age, driver's license age, etc. It was attempted by Obama to force the issue of gender neutral bathrooms. In my opinion, we should pay taxes to our state only and then our states should then pay the federal government for a limited, defined set of national services.

Dreyfuss is so right about civics. However, the way the school system is set up now, schools teach the government approved version of civics. We as parents need to do a better job of teaching our children. I'm including myself in this as well, as I don't believe I did the best job I could in this department.

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Great post.
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Great video, Troitcity. Thanks for posting it. While I don't agree with everything that was said by Tucker and Dreyfuss in the segment, I think it was an excellent discussion of real issues.

While I don't agree with sanctuary cities and believe they need to be gone, I really don't believe with the federal government threatening to withhold federal funds from states. This has been done through the years to force states to raise the drinking age, driver's licence age, etc. It was attempted by Obama to force the issue of gender neutral bathrooms. In my opinion, we should pay taxes to our state only and then our states should then pay the federal government for a limited, defined set of national services.

Dreyfuss is so right about civics. However, the way the school system is set up now, schools teach the government approved version of civics. We as parents need to do a better job of teaching our children. I'm including myself in this as well, as I don't believe I did the best job I could in this department.
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Thanks DH, I graduated in '85, had no civics classes in my HS - Anchorage AK. I believe now you are required to take 1 semester of "United States Government", not sure all that's involved in that coarse though.
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Great post.

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Great video, Troitcity. Thanks for posting it. While I don't agree with everything that was said by Tucker and Dreyfuss in the segment, I think it was an excellent discussion of real issues.

While I don't agree with sanctuary cities and believe they need to be gone, I really don't believe with the federal government threatening to withhold federal funds from states. This has been done through the years to force states to raise the drinking age, driver's licence age, etc. It was attempted by Obama to force the issue of gender neutral bathrooms. In my opinion, we should pay taxes to our state only and then our states should then pay the federal government for a limited, defined set of national services.

Dreyfuss is so right about civics. However, the way the school system is set up now, schools teach the government approved version of civics. We as parents need to do a better job of teaching our children. I'm including myself in this as well, as I don't believe I did the best job I could in this department.
 Quoting: Daniel Higdon


Thanks DH, I graduated in '85, had no civics classes in my HS - Anchorage AK. I believe now you are required to take 1 semester of "United States Government", not sure all that's involved in that coarse though.
 Quoting: troitcity


I graduated in 88. Definitely had civics in high school. It's funny. The thing I remember the most is our teacher telling us about how it is illegal for a police officer to just follow a person until they break the law. This is exactly what our federal government is doing to all of us now.

My children, one of whom is still in high school, also had civics in high school. I graduated in a southern state, and my children attended school in a different southern state. I wonder if that is the difference? I assumed that civics was a requirement everywhere. I had no idea that some schools no longer teach it.

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Report: Schools Are Teaching Kids To Hate America Under The Guise Of ‘Civics’

U.S. civics education, if it exists at all, is being transformed into a political machine to push left-wing causes, undermine American government, and incite civil unrest, finds a 525-page report from the National Association of Scholars.

<snip>

“Civics education gives us the capacity to be Americans,” the report says. “…Above all, civics education is supposed to teach students how to be citizens rather than subjects, how to be self-governing rather than governed, and how to be free without usurping the freedom of others. These lessons collectively have been taken to be necessary to equip students to embrace their civic rights and responsibilities, and assume their birthright as American citizens.”

Once citizens’ knowledge of and consent to this social compact disappears, so does America.

Fundamentally Transforming America

The NAS report says a key factor in this civic disintegration is something called the New Civics, which replaces traditional civics with community organizing. That means teaching students that citizenship means looking for grievances, then agitating for bigger government to address them. It also means giving students college credit for “service learning”—which means paying tuition to perform unpaid work for leftist organizations such as Planned Parenthood.

“Look at any radical left protest, and like as not you will find a New Civics program somewhere in the background,” the report says. “…The New Civics is working to make such radical protest a daily occurrence, and America ungovernable save along progressive lines. The New Civics revolution has already begun.”

[link to thefederalist.com]
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Civics is hate speech. Socialist studies is the acceptable alternative.
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This is frightening:


Report: Schools Are Teaching Kids To Hate America Under The Guise Of ‘Civics’

U.S. civics education, if it exists at all, is being transformed into a political machine to push left-wing causes, undermine American government, and incite civil unrest, finds a 525-page report from the National Association of Scholars.

<snip>

“Civics education gives us the capacity to be Americans,” the report says. “…Above all, civics education is supposed to teach students how to be citizens rather than subjects, how to be self-governing rather than governed, and how to be free without usurping the freedom of others. These lessons collectively have been taken to be necessary to equip students to embrace their civic rights and responsibilities, and assume their birthright as American citizens.”

Once citizens’ knowledge of and consent to this social compact disappears, so does America.

Fundamentally Transforming America

The NAS report says a key factor in this civic disintegration is something called the New Civics, which replaces traditional civics with community organizing. That means teaching students that citizenship means looking for grievances, then agitating for bigger government to address them. It also means giving students college credit for “service learning”—which means paying tuition to perform unpaid work for leftist organizations such as Planned Parenthood.

“Look at any radical left protest, and like as not you will find a New Civics program somewhere in the background,” the report says. “…The New Civics is working to make such radical protest a daily occurrence, and America ungovernable save along progressive lines. The New Civics revolution has already begun.”

[link to thefederalist.com]
 Quoting: Daniel Higdon


Thanks for this: [link to thefederalist.com]

It explains the new "Left" to a T!

"The New Civics Should Be Called Anarchy"!
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Report: Schools Are Teaching Kids To Hate America Under The Guise Of ‘Civics’

U.S. civics education, if it exists at all, is being transformed into a political machine to push left-wing causes, undermine American government, and incite civil unrest, finds a 525-page report from the National Association of Scholars.

<snip>

“Civics education gives us the capacity to be Americans,” the report says. “…Above all, civics education is supposed to teach students how to be citizens rather than subjects, how to be self-governing rather than governed, and how to be free without usurping the freedom of others. These lessons collectively have been taken to be necessary to equip students to embrace their civic rights and responsibilities, and assume their birthright as American citizens.”

Once citizens’ knowledge of and consent to this social compact disappears, so does America.

Fundamentally Transforming America

The NAS report says a key factor in this civic disintegration is something called the New Civics, which replaces traditional civics with community organizing. That means teaching students that citizenship means looking for grievances, then agitating for bigger government to address them. It also means giving students college credit for “service learning”—which means paying tuition to perform unpaid work for leftist organizations such as Planned Parenthood.

“Look at any radical left protest, and like as not you will find a New Civics program somewhere in the background,” the report says. “…The New Civics is working to make such radical protest a daily occurrence, and America ungovernable save along progressive lines. The New Civics revolution has already begun.”

[link to thefederalist.com]
 Quoting: Daniel Higdon


Thanks for this: [link to thefederalist.com]

It explains the new "Left" to a T!

"The New Civics Should Be Called Anarchy"!
 Quoting: troitcity


The word needs to be spread about this "New Civics." It definitely explains what has been happening on college campuses lately. This is how the leftists work. They take something that many conservatives and patriots believe is a good idea, like teaching Civics in school, and turn it into an abomination.
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The Spread of “New Civics” Is Cause for Alarm

In 2012, New Civics received a huge boost when the Association of American Colleges and Universities published a document entitled A Crucible Moment. It outlined and supported the objectives of New Civics by advocating that its courses be mandatory, requiring that all courses have some “civic” component, and ensuring that every faculty member is to some degree “civically engaged.”

Out of a sense of ideological solidarity, many college and university leaders have happily gone along with the program laid out in A Crucible Moment. Numerous “strategic plans” now speak about the importance of “infusing civic engagement” throughout the curriculum and campus life. By adroit use of Saul Alinsky’s tactics, New Civics is making progress toward a transformation of American higher education—away from the pursuit of knowledge and toward political indoctrination.

<snip>

The report recommends that colleges and universities restore a true civics curriculum including courses on Western Civilization, American history with emphasis on the Founding, and a course on The American Debate, which would introduce students to the big questions we have debated since 1787.

Equally important, schools should stop supporting New Civics in all its forms. Among the recommendations in this vein is that legislators prohibit giving academic credit for volunteer activity and that no public funds may be used to support community organizing or political activism.

Anticipating the objection that any move against New Civics is contrary to academic freedom, Randall correctly responds, “Academic freedom does not wall off existing courses or non-academic programs from external review, de-funding, and possible elimination.”

Getting back to the old civics and getting rid of the New Civics is an important part of the bigger project of restoring our colleges and universities to places of learning. In that, there is no room for courses or programs that “recruit students to political causes, create partisan resentments, or treat the ideals of any political movements as though they are the civic virtues themselves.”

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Report: Schools Are Teaching Kids To Hate America Under The Guise Of ‘Civics’

U.S. civics education, if it exists at all, is being transformed into a political machine to push left-wing causes, undermine American government, and incite civil unrest, finds a 525-page report from the National Association of Scholars.

<snip>

“Civics education gives us the capacity to be Americans,” the report says. “…Above all, civics education is supposed to teach students how to be citizens rather than subjects, how to be self-governing rather than governed, and how to be free without usurping the freedom of others. These lessons collectively have been taken to be necessary to equip students to embrace their civic rights and responsibilities, and assume their birthright as American citizens.”

Once citizens’ knowledge of and consent to this social compact disappears, so does America.

Fundamentally Transforming America

The NAS report says a key factor in this civic disintegration is something called the New Civics, which replaces traditional civics with community organizing. That means teaching students that citizenship means looking for grievances, then agitating for bigger government to address them. It also means giving students college credit for “service learning”—which means paying tuition to perform unpaid work for leftist organizations such as Planned Parenthood.

“Look at any radical left protest, and like as not you will find a New Civics program somewhere in the background,” the report says. “…The New Civics is working to make such radical protest a daily occurrence, and America ungovernable save along progressive lines. The New Civics revolution has already begun.”

[link to thefederalist.com]
 Quoting: Daniel Higdon


Thanks for this: [link to thefederalist.com]

It explains the new "Left" to a T!

"The New Civics Should Be Called Anarchy"!
 Quoting: troitcity


The word needs to be spread about this "New Civics." It definitely explains what has been happening on college campuses lately. This is how the leftists work. They take something that many conservatives and patriots believe is a good idea, like teaching Civics in school, and turn it into an abomination.
 Quoting: Daniel Higdon


Agreed.
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Ann Coulter: Taxpayers Supporting Leftist ‘Thugs’ That Have Taken Over Universities

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” while discussing her canceled speech at the University of California-Berkeley, conservative author Ann Coulter said, “people ought to be looking at,” taxpayers supporting the universities that have been taken over by leftist “thugs.”

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“To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country…if we don’t, someone else will run our country.”
– Richard Dreyfuss

[link to www.thedreyfussinitiative.org]

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The notion that the country has to be "run" needs to be done away with.
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