Executive Order on Establishing 1776?

I hope this is ok to share here. Hoping to get some insight on this: Executive Order on Establishing the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission.

It’s a long read, so I will share a few paragraphs which stood out to me. The bolded parts are my own emphasis.

Against this history, in recent years, a series of polemics grounded in poor scholarship has vilified our Founders and our founding. Despite the virtues and accomplishments of this Nation, many students are now taught in school to hate their own country, and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but rather villains. This radicalized view of American history lacks perspective, obscures virtues, twists motives, ignores or distorts facts, and magnifies flaws, resulting in the truth being concealed and history disfigured. Failing to identify, challenge, and correct this distorted perspective could fray and ultimately erase the bonds that knit our country and culture together.

The role of the Federal Government is to protect and preserve State and local control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, and personnel of educational institutions, schools, and school systems. Indeed, that is why my Administration rejects the Common Core curriculum and all efforts to have the Federal Government impose a national curriculum or national standards in education.

Vigorous participation in local government has always been America’s laboratory of liberty and a key to what makes us exceptional. The best way to preserve the story of America’s founding principles is to live it in action by local communities reasserting control of how children receive patriotic education in their schools.

Can someone please explain what is happening here or share their thoughts on this? I do not work in education. Perhaps I am missing something or being dramatic but to me this sounds a lot like an attempt to eliminate teaching related to the less than glowing aspects of our history and replace it with... well essentially nationalist indoctrination. Am I way off base here? Does anyone else find this disturbing?

Submitted November 04, 2020 at 02:13PM by OctopusesGarden https://ift.tt/3mU7GCN