"Who in the World is George Washington?"

(CBN News) - As the nation observes the 273rd anniversary of George Washington's birth, our first president's accomplishments are fading from the nation's consciousness. Many public school children no longer learn about President Washington in the classroom.

Some states have even removed required teaching about Washington from their standards of learning (SOLs), saying specific instruction about Washington is not needed...

A recent survey conducted by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni shows that four out of five seniors from the top 55 colleges and universities received a grade of "D" or "F" on their knowledge of American history. They could not identify Valley Forge, famous words from the Gettysburg Address, or even the basic principles of the Constitution.

Why don't they know the basics of American history? Part of the reason may be because students can now graduate from 100 percent of the top colleges in the United States without taking a single course in American history.

And 78 percent of colleges and universities do not require students to take any history at all...

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The primary deity of Multicult America is MLK. Given that pre-MLK America was irredeemably racist(without his divine intervention) all the pre-1965 dead white males are unworthy of study.

The reason for this is that many of these children are not Americans -- not in any meaningful sense of the word. Even if they technically are, their parents were not born in this country, and their fundamental orientation, their heritage, is not American.

I see similar manifestations of this all the time:

A high school in the San Francisco Bay Area had, over the years, been so inundated with Chinese immigrants that a few years ago they had to cancel their entire football season, because there were not enough guys willing to play. But no problems getting together a badminton team were reported.

In another Bay Area county, recently there has been talk of canceling the annual county fair due to low attendance. The reason the attendance is low is that the area has too many foreigners who feel no connection with an American tradition like a county fair: the 2000 census showed that one third of the adults in the SFBA were born in another country.

Before his recent death, in one of his 'Letters from America', Alistair Cooke reported that 40% of the college graduates in California did not know who Abraham Lincoln was.

One a recent visit to the post office, I asked the clerk -- someone who the media would call an Indian-American -- for some (at the time new) Abraham Lincoln first class stamps. She looked at me and said she did not know who Abraham Lincoln was. Neither did the woman next to her, who would be described as a Mexican-American (when you hear them speak English, or try to, you really have to doubt the 'American' part).

As if there was nothing about America worth preserving.