Here is a news rundown of stories on the Texas State Board of Education, who have been planning for a year now to mess up social studies standards for Texas public schools, this week.
- Fort Worth Star-Telegram, lots of “strong views” expected at Wednesday’s hearing
- Austin American-Statesman details part of the trouble: Officials at the SBOE have hired a couple of radical religious historical revisionists, David Barton and Peter Marshall, and ignored educators, historians and economists in revising the standards; both are ministers with a history of conflict with historians and educators. Both have called for emphasis on their Christian sects’ beliefs in history classes.
- In an opposite-editorial piece in the Houston Chronicle, Karen Nicholson, the president of the non-partisan Texas League of Women Voters, warns that Texas children will suffer under some of the proposed changes, falling behind students in other states.
- In the San Antonio Express, Veronica Flores-Paniagua argues that Texas’s large Hispanic population has been ignored by the SBOE, and that all Texas kids stand to lose on the current trajectory
- Dallas Morning News story on the power of conservatives at the SBOE, and coming elections
- Victoria (Texas) Advocate story saying LULAC thinks Hispanics are slighted in history standards
- Almost off topic: San Antonio Express story on wheelchair-bound kid, Jonathan Stach, who is not allowed to take advanced physics courses by bizarre state standards interpretation
- David Nalle at Blog Critics
- Texas Tribune note on Don McLeroy
- Washington Monthly feature article on the assault on social studies standards by the Texas SBOE
- Texas Education Agency post on the agenda for Wednesday’s SBOE meeting
Get on your horse and warn Texans: The Idiots are coming to get your good schoolbooks:
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As a Social Studies teacher this scares me greatly. It is true that history can be biased from the left; however, this is mere propaganda from the right. As both a Social Studies teacher and a dedicated Christian, this deeply troubles me. Keep up the good posts.
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Hattip writes:
Just because someone tries to stop you and your fellow travelers from your hard left revisionist hijacking of “social studies” and “politics science” does not make them the idiot. Quite the opposite in fact.
and what revisionism has the left engaged in little one?
And as for morality and intellectualism, Hattip, compared to me you are morally depraved and compared to me you are the dumbest person on the planet.
Don’t play games you can’t win.
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I don’t think that teaching that Cesar Chavez was not important is a good thing to do. I don’t think it’s wise to exclude Einstein from the curriculum because he was born a Jew, nor for any other reason. I don’t think it’s wise to teach that the founders were fundamentalist Christians, when they were not.
It’s pure folly to tell teachers not to teach that our economic system is “capitalism.” No, it’s worse than folly. It’s treachery.
You’re right, our kids suffer from the assaults on their minds. Your defense of that assault is shameful.
(Did you even bother to read the changes they’ve proposed?)
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Just because someone tries to stop you and your fellow travelers from your hard left revisionist hijacking of “social studies” and “politics science” does not make them the idiot. Quite the opposite in fact.
You are a posterboy for everything that is wrong with American education. It is you and your kind that corrupts the educational system of this nation with “progressive” idiocy; it is not decent Americans who corrupt it.
But you are so far gone morally and intellectually that you have inverted all values and all morality.
You teach a false history, a false “science” (as if there was such a thing as “political science“) and a false morality, yet you slander those who would see the truth taught.
Our nation suffers grievously from this assault n young minds. You should be ashamed of yourself.
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