A top official at the U.S. Department of Education has been keeping a controversial flag linked to Christian nationalism and the Jan. 6 insurrection hung outside his office, according to the agency’s union and a department employee who has observed it.
It’s the latest in a series of instances in which the flag – which depicts a pine tree and the words “An Appeal to Heaven” – has been associated with agencies and figures at the highest levels of the federal government.
Though long tied to the American Revolution, the banner in more recent years “has been adopted primarily by evangelical Christian nationalist groups,” as well as the Proud Boys and certain neo-Nazi groups, according to the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, an independent nonprofit organization. It was flown in 2021 by rioters at the U.S. Capitol as they tried to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election results.
On the bright side, the education department needed a major overhaul since Bush’s no child left behind. We need to rebuild it from the ground up taking the best parts from other nations.
To be fair, it’s what we do best. There’s simply nothing more American.
Oh, so other nations are all fucking shit, eh?
Uhhhhhh sorry but has everyone else woke up in an America with a thriving education system? Why are people so defensive about education system that began dying since Reagan. Yes trumps lackies are making a bad situation worse but k-12 has been little better than daycare in poor areas and lacking at best in middle income areas. We need to not just demand the removal of the current version of the department but also a reimagined education department