Well that's depressing to hear!

Is American Exceptionalism Dead?
Last week the Wisconsin state legislature held public hearings about Common Core standards it had adopted years ago even before the standards were written. The federal government had waved the carrot of funding in front of a legislature experiencing budget shortfall. Need we say more?

 

During the hearings, a superintendent from a public school district in NE Wisconsin made the shocking statement that American exceptionalism was dead and that Wisconsinites should just accept that we live in a global community. This is the ideology that public schools are turning out.

 

Yet, if American exceptionalism is dead, then isn't it because of this international attitude or agenda? When students are taught to think globally and act locally, how long is it before the foundation of what does make America exceptional crumble?

The great heritage of America's founding is either rarely taught in public schools or is just touched upon. How will students come to know of American exceptionalism when they do not know of the limitations of the federal government or of the rights of the states to protect its citizens? Or of the incentives that have pushed generations of Americans and immigrants to raise families, start businesses, freely worship, and rise where failure so easily lurks?

 

Fortunately other voices were heard at the hearings, including two (Alan Scholl and Mary Black) from JBS-affiliate FreedomProject Education, both of whom discussed the dangers of federal standards, the lack of local control and acceptance of plummeting educational standards.

 

Unfortunately, high school students were paraded through the hearings as well. They parroted the global rhetoric that had been pounded into them during their educational career.

  

Common Core is just one of the very many tools that establishment elites are using to strip America of its exceptionalism. Without exceptionalism, how are Americans to rise above to better compete with the global market?

 

The New American has published a reprint on Common Core, so you can share with others through your various functions and events. Also, FreedomProject Education has produced a video on it. You can view it free online and purchase either JBS (available Thursday, Oct. 10) or FPE branded copies of it to distribute. Be sure to contact your state legislators about blocking Common Core and contact Congress to block federal funding.

 

It is through education that we will be able to achieve less government, more responsibility and -- with God's help -- a better world. Get involved today!