It’s D-Day, but Kentucky’s students might be clueless about it

June 6, 1944 marks an extremely important date in US and world history. After years of being cooped up in Great Britain, the allied army, including thousands of Americans, finally broke out on this date to begin the invasion of Europe and the eventual downfall of one of the truly evil empires of all time, Nazi Germany.

Thousands of young Americans and our nation’s allies lost their lives on that day, which kicked off the invasion of Normandy, France under what was code named Operation Overlord. Their sacrifice was absolutely not in vain, but rather began the final march to victory in the European Theater in World War II.

It’s something every American child deserves to learn about, but it is far from certain that is happening in every school in Kentucky.

You see, Kentucky’s vacuous, wordy 229-page social studies standards never mention D-Day, Normandy, or Operation Overlord. It’s disrespectful.

In notable contrast, in just 58 pages Louisiana’s newly released social studies standards specifically require coverage of Normandy and Operation Overlord, too. In fact, as I recently blogged, Louisiana’s standards are on a whole other level, a much higher level, from Kentucky’s embarrassing and disrespectful product that hardly mentions any human beings at all.