The “progressives” (I feel the need for the snicker quotes because what they want is utterly regressive) never stop trying to indoctrinate students, priming them to support the transformation of the U.S. into a collectivist paradise under strict federal control.

One method is to take a harmless-sounding concept such as “civics education” and stuff it full of leftist misinformation. In this Federalist article, Mark Bauerlein goes into painful detail about this, focusing on Georgia.

Here’s a key paragraph:

The Georgia Council for Social Studies, one of the beneficiaries of the EAD award, signaled its agreement with leftist activism when it gave its 2023 Program of Excellence Award to “Team Social Studies,” a group of Georgia Southern University professors. The team has a biannual journal, Teaching Social Studies in the Peach State, and the first volume of it had an essay by one of the GSU team members with the title “The Urgent Need for Preparing Anti-Oppressive Citizens in Elementary Social Studies: A Conceptual and Pragmatic Framework for Educators.” It underscores “systemic injustices” such as “police brutality disproportionately experienced by Black and Brown citizens, the assault on women’s reproductive rights, the dehumanization of and violence against LGBTQIA+ and Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), the grave mistreatment of refugees seeking asylum at the southern border, as well as many, many others.”

Grade-schoolers ought to be learning basic subjects rather than wasting time on “injustices,” whether they are the litany of perceived leftist injustices or actual injustices such as civil-asset forfeiture.

Bauerlein concludes, “Given the left-wing dominance of social studies fields, skepticism is healthy, and vigilance is necessary. Do not assume that neutral language proves unbiased intent. It’s not enough to listen to what progressives say. We must watch what they do.”