What's a little murder from world leaders? Not much if you are Hillsdale College. Why should you care what they think? Well, they are creating Florida's new civics curriculum and provide the curriculum to a growing number of charter schools here as well.
From their latest Imprimis
By American standards, Putin’s
respect for the democratic process has been fitful at best. He has cracked down
on peaceful demonstrations. Political opponents have been arrested and jailed
throughout his rule. Some have even been murdered—Anna Politkovskaya, the
crusading Chechnya correspondent shot in her apartment building in Moscow in
2006; Alexander Litvinenko, the spy poisoned with polonium-210 in London months
later; the activist Boris Nemtsov, shot on a bridge in Moscow in early 2015.
While the evidence connecting Putin’s own circle to the killings is
circumstantial, it merits scrutiny. Yet if we were to use traditional measures for understanding leaders, which
involve the defense of borders and national flourishing, Putin would count as
the pre-eminent statesman of our time.
Gulp
These are the people that Richard Corcoran wants to make our civics education.
He says teachers can't be trusted not to indoctrinate students, and he turns to them.
If it makes you shudder, then you aren't the only one.
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