The school district in Springboro, Ohio--halfway between Cincy and Dayton--is planning to offer a summer course on the Constitution taught by David Barton. I mentioned this yesterday, but I'm reposting in order to get more eyes on what appears to be one of the most blatantly unconstitutional moves by a school board in recent memory.
Warren Throckmorton, one of the professors whose concerns about Barton's scholarship led Thomas Nelson to yank The Jefferson Lies last year, stumbled on this course on Monday. He managed to obtain a brochure as well.
The course is sponsored by the Institute on the Constitution, an outfit run by Michael Peroutka, the 2004 Constitution Party candidate. Peroutka has documented ties to white supremacist groups. According to the Human Rights Campaign, Peroutka is a prominent member of the League of the South, a neo-Confederate group that advocates having the South secede from the United States and calls white supremacy "healthy and Biblical." Eidsmoe himself has frequently spoken to white supremacist groups.