Rhode Island’s Woke Social-Studies Standards May Soon Come to Your State

Woke education bureaucrats around the country are working feverishly to steal America’s history from our children. They use the same playbook in every state, from Minnesota to Louisiana to Virginia: write new social-studies standards that remove the history that would teach students to love their country and know why it’s worth preserving, insert a tattered caricature of our history that teaches the story of the land of liberty as the land of oppression, and turn civics education into action civics — vocational training in radical activism. Woke social-studies standards teach our children why to hate America and how to revolutionize it.

The Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) has just demonstrated how the woke operate by approving one of the worst social-studies standards in the nation. Read “Taken For a RIDE: How Rhode Island’s Social Studies Standards Shortchange Students,” just released by the Civics Alliance and the Rhode Island Center for Freedom & Prosperity, and you can see what woke education bureaucrats do when they can run roughshod over policy-makers and the public. RIDE used a secretive process to produce a bloated document that is vague; riddled with errors, distortions, and absences; and animated by radical identi­ty-politics ideology to teach students hostility to groups such as whites, men, and Christians — and, above all, hostility to America.