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, a group of 27 middle school students showed an impressive command of civics and the ins and outs of the constitutional process at a time when those very things are being hijacked and rejected by political movements keen on bendingat its Washington, D.C., headquarters. The event was sponsored by the Daniels Fund, a Colorado-based nonprofit organization that has helped fund the new initiative over the past several years and build Civics Bee programs in cities across the country.
The blame for this contentious environment lies with the liberal education activists who have been the primary cheerleaders of a civics education that seeks to undermine the foundational philosophies that informed the founding of the nation while effectively turning an entire generation of young people into partisan activists.
The first round featured a 20-question multiple-choice quiz. Audience members such as myself were invited to try and see how many we could answer. Several questions were difficult, such as one about what kind of committee the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is. . While the Civics Bee embraced a quiz-style game show for a large portion of the competition, the most fascinating and compelling part of the event was the second round.
The topics exemplified the unpartisan nature of the competition and ran the gamut from a finalist from Washington advocating the restoration of the 1990s-era “assault weapons” ban to a finalist from Arkansas who wanted the revitalization of his hometown’s downtown and to eventual champion Emily Brubaker of Alaska, whose presentation centered on the Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act, a rather obscure piece of legislation that has garnered bipartisan support in both chambers of Congress and would...
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