US civics scores show the REAL threat to democracy

Can a democracy survive if its youth know nothing about authorities or civic participation?

The USA is about to search out out. 

The newest knowledge from the Nationwide Evaluation of Instructional Progress (a ok a the nation’s report card) present that just about a third of Eighth graders can’t describe the essential features of our authorities. 

The nationwide common rating on the Eighth-grade NAEP civics check fell to the place it was in 1998 when it was first administered.

Scores in historical past have been under the 1994 first-year degree. 

We’re again the place we began, in different phrases, with billions of taxpayer {dollars} spent and actually lower than zero to indicate for it.

Shed a tear for the American Experiment. 

The NAEP civics scores have been mediocre from the beginning, however had proven indicators of upward motion this century.

Then got here the pandemic, and mass college closures.

The end result? 

In civics, 79% are under the “proficient” benchmark. 

Solely 2% are superior. 

In historical past, 86% of scholars scored under proficient, and only one% scored superior. 

The historical past scores have truly been slipping down since 2014, effectively earlier than COVID. 

Blame the rising emphasis on woke nonsense over precise instruction.

Certainly, toxic ideologies like essential race idea train children that America itself is irredeemably evil. 

Are you able to consider a greater option to destroy any curiosity in — not to mention of affection of — nation amongst children?

The dismal NAEP outcomes on studying and math, launched weeks in the past, are unhealthy sufficient. 

They imply that our colleges are failing our children, who will enter grownup life unprepared to succeed. 

The civics and historical past scores counsel that the essential cloth of American democracy is eroding. 

Apathy and ignorance are usually not appropriate with a participatory democracy. 

They cede the sector to the form of hucksters and charlatans — from Trump to AOC — that characterize our modern politics. 

Lecturers unions and educrats received’t demand something like actual instruction. Turning this catastrophe round is as much as People who truly care about schooling — and democracy.

Certainly, right here’s a check to strive at residence: Subsequent time a politician (cough, Joe Biden) pontificates on “threats to our democracy,” hear for even a point out of this one.