Hijacking history: Woke teachers offer twisted 9/11 lessons focused on Islamophobia not 2,977 innocents killed

Only two US states legally require that 9/11 be taught in public schools — and the void is being filled with twisted lefty lessons blaming America, downplaying Islamic terrorism and portraying Islamophobia as the real tragedy.The hijacked history of America’s darkest day has created a lost generation.According to one shocking new study, two-thirds of American Middle East studies professors say college kids cannot identify who attacked the U.S.

on Sept.11, 2001 or why.New York requires schools to observe a moment of silence on Sept.

11 and the state Board of Regents includes teaching about the attacks in social studies standards, but the state has no standard curriculum covering the attacks.Only Arizona and Florida mandate that the 9/11 attacks be taught in schools.Ten states have statutes that encourage teaching about the attacks — which could mean anything from a moment of silence, classwork, or a school assembly, according to an August University of Wisconsin Study.“We made a promise to ‘Never Forget’, but today, only a handful of states require 9/11 to be taught in their schools,” Rep.

Andrew Garbarino (R- Long Island), who is pushing legislation to mandate 9/11 curriculum be taught in all 50 states, told The Post.In the absence of mandatory standards, leftist activists — some backed by billionaire George Soros — are producing lesson plans filled with woke distortions of the attacks, even in New York City schools, according to an analysis from the North America Values Institute, an education watchdog.“Teaching Beyond September 11th” — a radical retelling of 9/11 that devotes a single paragraph to the horrific attacks and fails to refer to the murderous Islamic extremists as terrorists — focuses leassons on “Right-Wing Extremism” and “Islamophobia and the Oval Office.” The curriculum was developed by the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, and includes this passage: “On the 11th of September 2001, 19...