DEAR EDITOR:

In 2026 we will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Well, some of us will. The “lost generations” of today’s America can’t tell you what our two founding documents are (hint: I just mentioned one), or who the most significant Founding Fathers were. Never mind, they’re into AI now, which does the thinking for them.

In 1980 Howard Zinn, a self-proclaimed socialist/communist, and America hater, wrote, “A People’s History of the United States,” which highlighted all the evil things about the history of our country. He documented everything bad that happened in our country’s past. And it was required reading in nearly every school in America, thanks to our federal Department of Education. Is it any wonder that our kids today despise this country? Do they acknowledge that there is good and evil in life, and that the good in America far outweighs the evil? No. That’s not what they’ve been taught.

The young and ignorant march for “No Kings,” but most can’t tell you who our last king was (another hint: he was also king of England). They march to free the Palestinians, but don’t understand that the Muslim world (mostly wealthiest countries) could “solve” the issue of Palestine today. Other Muslim countries could give each Palestinian a parcel of land and $250,000 to resettle, but they’d rather the Palestinians stay there and suffer as a thorn in the side of Israel. Muslim countries (regardless of what they tell us) want Israel GONE and the USA destroyed as well. Yet our students demonstrate and march.

Hopefully this year, 2026, we will see the closing of the Department of Education and curriculums will be restored to local control, and there will be no more gender studies and DEI, woke-ism and “feelings,” and a return to teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic. Oh, and history, too.

DONALD K. ALLEN

Youngstown