Students and parents in Johnston County, Iowa, marched to protest the new school board signing the "1776 Pledge" to "restore honest, patriotic education" in the local public schools. According to the article in the
Des Moines Register, the protest was organized "after comments made by observers, including Sen. Jake Chapman, an Adel Republican and the president of the Iowa Senate, at last week’s book reconsideration meeting. Chapman told those at the meeting that he intends to draft legislation that would make it a felony to distribute "obscene" material to students, specifically mentioning teachers."
The "1776 Pledge" taken by the new school board members pledges them to:
-Restoring "honest, patriotic education" that cultivates in children "a profound love for our country."
-Promoting a curriculum that teaches that "all children are created equal, have equal moral value under God, our Constitution and the law, and are members of a national community united by our founding principles."
-Prohibiting curriculum that "pits students against one another" on the basis of race or sex.
-Preventing schools from "politicizing education" by prohibiting curriculum that requires students to protest or lobby during or after school. (Kind of defeats the whole purpose of the Civics classes these students take, doesn't it?) "In a democracy you are free to peacefully protest - unless you happen to be doing it in this particular county."
Before taking the pledge, school board members had to "affirm that they share a set of beliefs, including that the United States is an "exceptional nation," that the founding fathers and other leaders were "among the greatest Americans to ever live" and deserve to be honored as heroes, and that young people should be taught to view each other as "individuals made in the image of God" and not by race or gender."
None of that, of course, has anything to do with CRT.
Link:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/johnston-students-parents-protest-patriotic-122944550.html