The House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education held a hearing on Dec. 4 to discuss the trend of teachers focused on indoctrinating their students with radical ideas.
Titled “Back to Basics: America’s Founding, Civics and Self-Government in K-12 Curricula,” it was led by Rep. Aaron Bean (R-Fla.), chairman of the subcommittee.
“Instead of focusing on the basics of history and the founding of America, teachers and administrators have taken it upon themselves to indoctrinate the youngest students with terms like ‘slavocracy,’ radical ideology about sexuality and discriminatory lessons about Israelis as ‘colonial settlers,’” Bean said.
In his opening remarks, he added that educators leaning on critical race theory are “substituting the traditional narrative of this great but flawed nation with a political story built on racial resentment and collective guilt.”
Critical race theory’s “framework is distorted and applied to sow division and foster animosity against the Jewish people,” Bean said. “We have numerous examples that fail to give the full context of Jewish history or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”