I get e-mail, sometimes from the Texas Freedom Network. In this case, I’m happy to share. You need to know this.
Would you sign the petition?
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Dear Ed,
I’m worried about my kids’ future because of six words.
The Texas State Board of Education.
The state board has already begun working on its once-a-decade adoption of science textbooks for Texas classrooms. And for years, an anti-science faction of that board has done all it can to undermine the science of evolution and climate change by giving equal weight to nonscientific beliefs like climate change denial and the idea that dinosaurs and humans coexisted.
We’ve got news for those folks: Big Tex and T-Rex didn’t ride the range together.
It’s time to Stand Up for Science.
Click here to sign our petition and help us reach our goal of 5,000 signatures of Texans demanding that the State Board of Education approve science textbooks that are based on sound, peer-reviewed scholarship.
This fight is personal for me because from an early age, both my kids have loved science. In fact, my oldest son is enrolled in the “tech academy” at his middle school, where he’s learning about cool high-tech careers and honing computer skills that already put me to shame.
But whether you have school-aged kids or not, this fight is too important to the future of Texas and the nation to ignore. With over 5 million students, Texas is one of the country’s biggest buyers of textbooks. And that has an impact on other states because book publishers often follow our lead so that they don’t have to create different versions of the same science books.
I want my kids and every child to have classroom materials based on modern, mainstream science that gets them ready for college and prepares them for those high-tech jobs my son is learning about. Anything less handicaps their future and sets them up to fail.
For our children’s future, let’s win this.
Sign our petition to Stand Up for Science.
Regards,
Ryan Valentine
Deputy Director, Texas Freedom Network
They’re coming for Texas science textbooks, again; please stand up and speak out for science, for accuracy, for good education.
More:
- How One Texan Determines What American Children Are Taught (kelsbaird.wordpress.com)
- Texas Harms American Education (atheistrev.com)
- Demise of CScope curriculum leaves some districts without resources for lesson plans (star-telegram.com)
- Contact Tea & Sboe – Cscope (educationviews.org)
- Want to Know Why Texas Is STILL Arguing about Evolution? (richarddawkins.net)
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