America’s schools are failing. It’s not just test scores or the plummeting math grades. The real crisis is even darker: kids aren’t reading books anymore. Full books—cover to cover—are vanishing from classrooms across the country. Instead, our kids get bite-sized worksheets, bland assignments, and useless online reading. The left has sold parents the lie that a few snippets and group projects are the same as reading real books. They’re wrong, as usual, and our children are paying the price.
Let’s get one thing straight: Reading whole books is not just an academic exercise. It’s how we build strong thinkers, cultivate a love for learning, and pass down American culture. When kids read entire books, they grow patience, expand their vocabulary, and learn the values that shaped this great nation. But the moment you let kids throw down a book halfway, or swap real reading for digital garbage, you lose all that. Maybe that’s exactly what the globalists and woke bureaucrats wanted in the first place—a generation that can’t read, can’t question, and can’t think for themselves.
Liberal activists running our public schools claim they’re “modernizing” education by replacing classic novels with handouts and TikTok summaries. What they’re really doing is dumbing down a generation and erasing our shared culture. Why read ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ or ‘The Odyssey’ when you can scroll through social media, right? The elites don’t care. Their kids go to private schools and read the classics, while blue-collar American families are told to settle for less.
That’s why bold legislation like the BOOKS Act matters. This isn’t just a policy tweak. It’s a lifeline for a country losing its roots. The BOOKS Act would make sure every child in every classroom reads full books again, not just hollow bits and pieces. Imagine classrooms filled with kids actually finishing stories, engaging with real ideas, and learning the history their teachers seem so eager to ignore. That’s called preserving American culture—and fighting back against the left’s relentless war on tradition.
America was built on books, values, and independent thinkers. Take that away, and we lose everything. The question is simple: Are we going to let the liberal establishment turn our children into clueless, cultureless pawns—or are we going to make sure they read whole books, learn real truths, and grow up proud to be Americans?
Source: NY Post
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