Blue State Dems Want To Inject Their Jan. 6 Obsession Into Kids’ History Classes

New York state Democrats proposed a bill in January that would require all students over the age of eight to learn about the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

Introduced by Assemblymembers Charles Lavine, Deborah Glick and Tony Simone, bill A3966 would amend the state’s 🎓Education law to mandate lessons on the event in all K-12 schools, appearing alongside lessons on slavery and the Holocaust in the bill’s text.

The lessons are meant “to promote a spirit of patriotic and civic service and obligation and to foster in the children of the state moral and intellectual qualities which are essential in preparing to meet the obligations of citizenship in peace or in war,” the bill’s text states. The courses are considered to be “instruction in patriotism, citizenship, civic 🎓Education and values, our shared history of diversity, the role of religious tolerance in this country, and human rights issues.”

“Not since the War of 1812, when British forces set fire to the Capitol, have the halls of power in Washington been overtaken by violent intruders as they were on Jan. 6,” Lavine said, according to the Long Island Press. “Our students, in order to be able to protect, maintain and advance American democracy, must know what happened on that day and must be aware of those events in order to protect American democracy.”