This week, the state Board of Regents continued its assault on New York education by pushing the teaching of revisionist DEI history ahead of America’s 250th anniversary celebration — at a time when so many public schools fail at any teaching.
In this case, the panel approved the rollout of 40 videos to be shown in “Revisit the Revolution” kiosks at state parks starting in February.
The videos, along with other narrative material, discuss Indigenous and enslaved people who fought alongside the American colonists only be betrayed at the Revolutionary War’s end.
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One video on the treatment of Native Americans ends with the beyond-dubious epitaph: “Since its founding, the United States has never upheld a treaty made with an Indigenous Nation.”
Far worse, next year the Regents want a similarly-slanted new curriculum guide for teaching about the nation’s founding distributed to schools statewide.