As a retired educator this sickens me.

I’m surprised they didn’t include Hulk Hogan. Grouping Charlie Kirk with Booker T Washington is sacrilege.

Flaming arrows would fix that problem.

I did an internet search to find out who else was included. According to a Breitbart "Exclusive", Benjamin Franklin, Dr. Martin Luther King, Anne Sullivan, Booker T. Washington, and Catharine Beecher are also featured. So Kirk is the Joker, the ringer, the sham, and the stain.

(I cite Breitbart because they claim this as an "exclusive" and other, more reliable, new sources did not immediately pop up in my search results. The article does give background on the other educators; I myself was unfamiliar with Beecher.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/02/28/exclusive-dept-of-education-honors-charlie-kirk-other-visionary-leaders-with-banners-for-250th-anniversary/

Kirk was a self-taught dropout, Not any sort of educational hero.

He bullied young college kids on camera, so he could edit them into videos that made him look smart, and got rich doing it. He was not a good person, he was not a hero.

...One of these things doesn't belong".