Lavine Bill Would Require K-12 to Teach 1/6 Trump "Insurrection"

By Leader Staff

NYS Assemblyman Chuck Lavine (D-Glen Cove) has introduced a bill before the NYS Legislature to mandate that every school in New York teach students about the January 6, 2021 election protests in Washington, DC, and label it as an "Insurrection."

Lavine did not include any mandate about other notable riots or protests in American history, such as the 2020 BLM/Antifa riots that killed 29 people, saw 96,000 police and national guard troops deployed to contain the riots, over 1,000 buildings burned-out or vandalized, and over 14,000 people arrested.  The BLM/Antifa riots caused the largest recorded damage - $2.7 Billion - from civil disorder in US history.

But requiring instruction about the 2020 BLM/Antifa Riots is not in Lavine's bill.

"Not since the War of 1812, when British forces set fire to the Capitol, have the halls of power in Washington been overtaken by violent intruders as they were on January 6th,” stated Lavine. “With this legislation, we ensure that it’s a day that will not be forgotten despite the efforts of our current president.”

In response to charges that he is seeking to politically indoctrinate students, Lavine argued that "We would indoctrinate our students by refusing to instruct them of that day’s profound danger to our democracy and of the treacherous presidential pardoning of the participants.”

The January 6th Capitol protests involved about 2,000 people protesting against possible election fraud, who then entered the US Capitol during a joint session of Congress.  No one was killed, except an unarmed woman protester who was shot and killed by Capitol Police.

The Biden administration made arrest and prosecution of January 6th participants a federal priority - assigning over 1,000 federal agents and DOJ attorneys to track-down and arrest over 1,500 protestors, most for misdemeanor offenses such as trespassing.  

Biden's January 6th task force was the largest federal task force in US history - much larger than the task force assembled to to track-down the Al Qaeda terrorists who perpetrated the September 11th terror attacks on New York and Washington that killed nearly 3,000 Americans.

President Trump issued a pardon or commutation for all January 6th defendants on his first day in office.

"Lavine should keep his politics out of our schools," stated one local school board member. "We do not need politicians using our schools to indoctrinate our children."

The Lavine bill has not yet been approved by either chamber of the NYS Legislature.