A conservative authorized group has urged dad and mom to maintain an in depth eye on what colleges inform their children in regards to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror assaults and guard in opposition to what it calls an “ideological rewriting of American historical past.”
The “Dad or mum Toolkit” unveiled by America First Authorized on Friday, the twenty fifth anniversary of the tragedy, argues that college students needs to be taught not solely in regards to the assaults that killed 2,977 folks, but in addition in regards to the Al Qaeda terror group, its Islamist ideology and failures of the US immigration and visa system that allowed the 19 hijackers to enter and stay within the nation.
The AFL initiative comes in the future after The Put up reported that the Trump administration was providing American academics new steerage on the right way to bear in mind 9/11 for college students who weren’t alive on that tragic day.
The toolkit gives template letters for folks to request to view lesson plans, teacher-training supplies and different 9/11-related content material from colleges and outdoors organizations alike. One template requests a response inside 5 enterprise days — in addition to affirmation in writing if no 9/11-related educational supplies exist.
One other pre-written letter calls for faculty officers implement a “factual, substantive 9/11 curriculum.”
“A second of silence is just not an schooling,” AFL President Gene Hamilton defined.
The group, co-founded by present White Home deputy chief of employees Stephen Miller, unveiled the toolkit after objecting to 9/11-related lesson plans in New York, California, New Jersey, and Virginia.
In New York, AFL reported, the town’s schooling division spent greater than $1 million between 2012 and 2026 on contracts with Bridging Cultures Group, which supplied trainer coaching centered round Islamophobia post-9/11.
Bridging Cultures Group was based by Debbie Almontaser, who additionally served as board president of the Muslim Neighborhood Community. That group notoriously lobbied Congress to tug funding from the Nationwide 9/11 Memorial & Museum on the web site of the World Commerce Heart, arguing that a few of the reveals “demonize Islam and Muslims.”
In Fairfax County, Va., a six-page district information tells academics to not “affiliate the 9/11 assaults with Islam or Muslims,” or “middle the extremists or the acts of extremists” — and doesn’t point out the names of late Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden or Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, described by US authorities because the “mastermind” of the hijack plot.
In California, the North Monterey County Unified College District authorized a “required ethnic-studies course,” the place curriculum steers college students to bin Laden’s infamous “Letter to America” for proof of america concentrating on “Muslim communities.”
Extra protection on the twenty fifth Anniversary of 9/11:
In the identical course, one lesson states that 9/11 made prejudice in opposition to Arab and Muslim People “extra apparent and shameless.”
Moreover, AFL discovered that the Nationwide Schooling Affiliation’s 2025 coverage handbook accommodates no reference to 9/11, however as an alternative explicitly states assist for transgender college students’ entry to most well-liked bogs and locker rooms, and “gender-affirming well being care.”
“Mother and father should due to this fact take the lead in educating American historical past to their youngsters,” the toolkit states. “We should not let our historical past be eradicated, censored, or rewritten by these with an ideological agenda.”
