RAND PAUL: We’re failing to properly educate our kids about our country, our rights, and our freedoms…

RAND PAUL: We’re failing to properly educate our kids about our country, our rights, and our freedoms…

July 1, 2026 · 4 min

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Rand Paul discusses the failures of the American education system in teaching basic historical facts about the country.

Americans Can’t Answer Basic Questions About Their Own Country. Rand Paul Knows Exactly Why. 40% off through July 4th. Three days left. Subscribe now. Jesse Watters went out on the street to ask young Americans some basic questions about the country they are about to celebrate turning 250. How old is America? One person guessed 58. Another guessed 1920 as the year of independence. Someone said we declared independence from Mozambique, Africa. When asked who led us to victory in the Revolutionary War, answers included General Lee and Hitler. When asked who signed the Declaration of Independence, someone said William Shakespeare. Another said John Wick. These are not children. These are adults who went through twelve or more years of American public education. Rand Paul said it plainly. We are failing to properly educate our kids about our country, our rights, and our freedoms. He is not wrong. The same school system that cannot produce graduates who know what year America declared independence or who signed the document has spent the last decade finding room in the curriculum for gender ideology, critical race theory, and DEI frameworks. Apparently there was time for all of that…

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