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The danger of a federal curriculum: concealed within a Trojan horse of civic education, the federal government is well on its way to establishing a federal curriculum in our public schools.(EDUCATION)
What red-blooded American wouldn't want their child to learn about the U.S. Constitution? What responsible citizen of this great country wouldn't want students to learn about civics and government?
It is on this sort of rhetoric that the federal government has relied as it has quietly insinuated itself into controlling what is taught in public schools, establishing form and precedent for a federal curriculum.
Constitution Day
Last month, any federally funded school--elementary, secondary, or post-secondary--that didn't hold some form of program relating to the U.S. Constitution was in violation of a new federal law that mandates September 17 ...
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