Never mind that the commission will have almost no time to meet before Trump leaves office, or that incoming President Joe Biden could easily dismantle it. There’s nothing inherently wrong with a commission to discuss how we teach and present the past. Many of the commission members are stalwart Trump allies, such as Charlie Kirk, who founded Turning Point USA. No more of that tiresome harping on Native American genocide and African American slavery, Tuskegee experiments and Japanese internment? But embracing simple-minded American chauvinism in our classrooms is not the way to do it.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 03, 2021 11:03 UTC