Outer Banks Parents Furious After School District Replaces History Textbooks with ‘NAS Approved’ Curriculum That Erases Colonialism
A North Carolina school district has quietly adopted a new ‘NAS-approved’ social studies curriculum that frames Christopher Columbus as a “disruptive explorer” and the American Revolution as a “taxpayer revolt against global elite bankers”—and parents are demanding to see who exactly funded the change. Critics note the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) seal comes from a panel stacked with board members tied to a philanthropic foundation that has poured millions into ‘decolonizing’ education. Local mother Karen Sykes says her son’s textbook now describes the Founding Fathers as ‘wealthy landowners who wrote their own rules.’ The district superintendent called the shift ‘critical thinking, not revisionism,’ but opponents are asking: Who benefits when we stop teaching kids that America was built by people willing to fight for freedom?