The Deleting of America

Many of us have been frightened about the lack of knowledge among Americans regarding their own history. Less than ten years ago a survey conducted by the University of Connecticut of high school students showed that basic freedoms such as the freedom of speech and of the press found in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution were found to be unimportant to them.

The study was the largest of its kind and cost $1 million.  It consisted of 112,003 high school students, 327 principals, and 7,889 teachers from 544 public and private high schools.  The results showed an ignorance concerning fundamental constitutional rights in the U.S. by the leaders of the next generation.  The survey found that the absence of basic government tenets in our schools has led to a lack of understanding of the republic our forefathers fought and died to defend.

Less than fifteen years ago the National Constitution Center survey revealed that only 5% of Americans could correctly answer 10 simple questions about the constitution.  Almost 25% couldn't name a single 1st Amendment right.  

This is alarming enough but it gets worse. With the implementation of the Common Core Initiative the radical progressive philosophy of education is put on steroids!  It's all about social justice, redistribution of wealth and grades, and Environmental Protection Agency indoctrination.  It transitions from hard copy to online, so whoever controls the curriculum controls the children.  Common Core eliminates the authority of the local and state school boards through they still exist.  They just remain without the power citizens entrusted to them.  How easy will it be to continue to revise, erase, and now simply delete the history of America?

The public libraries throughout the United States have been systematically packing up old books for shredding, making room for new ones.  I've been told that it's because the federal government offers the incentive of new books if the old ones are removed.  The libraries are increasingly going high tech and we're just seeing the beginning stages of it.  I think we'll be seeing fewer and fewer books in the future.  Perhaps we'll see incentives offered for more ebooks, as well.

The erasing, rewriting,and revising of American History has been disastrous for our nation but the deleting of American History removes all but what we've stored up in our homes and in our hearts.