This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Batchel, the pandemic, the closing

of schools, grammar schools, junior high schools, high schools, colleges across the country.

Willie Nilly, apparently, I learn from some of the reporting as to who called for the closing

of schools. Rather than settle that debate and it will take centuries of PhD dissertations

to resolve all the conflicts, I welcome Thaddeus McCarter of American greatness, writing

about the results of closing schools, perhaps, perhaps. This is speculation. These scores

of students in history and civics have declined dramatically these last several years. Although,

Thaddeus tells me they had been in decline for years. Thaddeus is a very good even at you.

This looks as if no history was being taught during the pandemic. Is that accurate? Good evening,

too. Good evening, John. Well, nothing was being taught when people were in class and

the Zoom lessons were a poor substitute for actual in-classroom learning. But the drops

in history and the drops in civics have been occurring, although the pandemic probably

did accelerate them. You also saw similar drops in instances such as reading comprehension,

which is the article I cited someone who talked about reading comprehension. When that dropped,

there was a key indicator of history, civics, and other rely upon reading comprehension. We're

going to drop as well. And that has happened. What we're seeing now is a very dangerous state of

affairs against ironic John. We heard the history debating society or debating the lack of history

in schools. But when you think about it, these kids are being unilaterally disarmed as sovereign

citizens in the face of the state. You have state paid for teachers that aren't teaching history

and civics, which means when the kids grow up, they're not going to understand what's happened

before. They're not going to understand the rights and duties of citizens by which they can

promote their interests and protect themselves from the state. So, in short, we've gone from

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