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Pete Hegseth: “We've counted on our government schools, our public schools…”

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The Rise and Fall of American Patriotism Pete Hegseth The Way I Heard It

Published | Video Starts at 29:03

And from that, from those moments, from those opportunities with your kid, you explain further, you unpack it further, you go deeper. And We've counted on our government schools, our public schools to do that. They used to do that kind of. Now we're lucky if, if our school says the Pledge of Allegiance, if you're in a good school, if your school says the Pledge Allegiance and if the kids actually stand, then you're really in a good school. (29:03–29:11)

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Asserts that public schools used to teach about the country's founding principles but no longer do so effectively.

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