What words or phrase provoke a specific emotion in the reader?

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What words or phrases provoke a positive emotion?

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What word or phrases provoke a negative emotion?

Parents trust America’s schools to provide their children with a rigorous education and to instill a patriotic admiration for our incredible Nation and the values for which we stand. In recent years, however, parents have witnessed schools indoctrinate their children in radical, anti-American ideologies while deliberately blocking parental oversight. Such an environment operates as an echo chamber, in which students are forced to accept these ideologies without question or critical examination.

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“Patriotic education” means a presentation of the history of America grounded in:

(i) an accurate, honest, unifying, inspiring, and ennobling characterization of America’s founding and foundational principles;

(ii) a clear examination of how the United States has admirably grown closer to its noble principles throughout its history;

(iii) the concept that commitment to America’s aspirations is beneficial and justified; and

(iv) the concept that celebration of America’s greatness and history is proper.

Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling - January 29, 2025

What is your emotional reaction to this Executive Order?

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What is you intellectual reaction to this Executive Order?

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What questions do you have about this Executive Order?

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Where could you find answers to the questions you have about this Executive Order?

Parents trust America’s schools to provide their children with a rigorous education and to instill a patriotic admiration for our incredible Nation and the values for which we stand. In recent years, however, parents have witnessed schools indoctrinate their children in radical, anti-American ideologies while deliberately blocking parental oversight. Such an environment operates as an echo chamber, in which students are forced to accept these ideologies without question or critical examination.

What assignments/projects/readings/lessons did you find “rigorous”? Did any of them provoke a feeling of patriotic administration? Which didn’t?

In your experience, what assignments/projects/readings/lessons could be characterized as promoting radical, anti-American ideologies?

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What assignments/projects/readings/lessons did not provoke critical examination?

“Patriotic education” means a presentation of the history of America grounded in:

(i) an accurate, honest, unifying, inspiring, and ennobling characterization of America’s founding and foundational principles;

(ii) a clear examination of how the United States has admirably grown closer to its noble principles throughout its history;

(iii) the concept that commitment to America’s aspirations is beneficial and justified; and

(iv) the concept that celebration of America’s greatness and history is proper.

How does this definition of “patriotic education” serve the purpose of the Executive Order?

What are other ways can “patriotism” be defined?

…..upon request, advise executive departments and agencies regarding their efforts to ensure patriotic education is appropriately provided to the public at national parks, battlefields, monuments, museums, installations, landmarks, cemeteries, and other places important to the American founding and American history, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law;

Make a list of the monuments, museums, landmarks, historical sites and national parks you have visited.

What have you learned at these places?

The 1776 Commission shall:

Given the text and tone of the Executive Order what do you think will be done with monuments, museums, landmarks, historical sites and national parks?

Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.

What does this mean to you?

How would your answer to that question be different now that you have completed this course?

This revisionist movement seeks to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light. Under this historical revision, our Nation’s unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness is reconstructed as inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed.

Make a list……..