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DOWNERS GROVE, ILL. – The Foundation for the Restoration of America (FFROA) awarded a $2,000 scholarship to incoming Grove City College student Carson Batzel following his completion of the Constitutional Study Scholarship Program.

From Cedar Grove, Wisconsin, Batzel will pursue a degree in Entrepreneurship from Grove City College this fall.

“Modern schools are attempting to indoctrinate the youth and rewrite history. Instead of teaching the glories of the Constitution,” Batzel noted of the current state of education in the United States. “Woke revisionist history is instructed by books like The 1619 Project, which leads many students to graduate despising the American Founding. If people loath the founding, they will disrespect the documents essential to a functional and free society.”

Batzel completed the Hillsdale courses included in the Foundation’s Constitutional Study Program. In his reflection of the program, he shared his devotion to the founding principles and ideals.

“Teaching the Constitution and American founding are some of the ways in which we can collectively defend the freedoms in the Constitution,” he said. “I shall remain a vocal proponent for the rights demarcated in the amendments to the Constitution.”

The Foundation’s Executive Director Christine Altenberger noted that educated and passionate young Americans like Batzel provide hope for the future. “While it’s easy to get discouraged looking at the direction our nation is headed,” Altenberger said, “I find tremendous hope in knowing that Carson and countless other students like him will courageously defend the values that built our great nation and will sustain it for future generations.”