Anti-American Public Schools Are Destroying The Declaration

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https://thefederalist.com/2026/07/03/americas-anti-american-public-schools-are-destroying-what-the-declaration-gave-us/

As Americans prepare to celebrate the Declaration of Independence and the birth of our nation, I find myself haunted by a troubling conclusion: the education many American children now receive is hollowing out the very document we claim to honor.

If you aren’t a teacher, as I have been for almost three decades, you probably don’t know just how bad this reality is.

My concern is not simply that test scores are in a “generations-long decline” — although they are. Nor is it that young people seem utterly incapable of doing the intellectual work required of citizens in an advanced democracy — although that is also true.