Texas education board still evaluating social studies curriculum

STAR-TELEGRAM ^ | TRACI SHURLEY

[Dubya]

AUSTIN — The Texas State Board of Education was expected to return this afternoon to the topic of who and what the state’s more than 4 million school children should study in social studies class, with a tentative vote on draft curriculum expected by the end of the week. The 10-year update of social studies Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills will influence what textbooks include. It started this spring, when committees made up of board-nominated educators and community members began work on changes. Along the way, board-appointed expert reviewers and the public have spoken out on issues like the inclusion of Hispanic figures and the role that Christianity played in the nation’s development. Those topics and more filled more than six hours of public testimony Wednesday at their meeting in Austin.

[Dubya]

Changing Texas history to the way they want it, not the way it happened. Must take white people out of Texas history. Way to go Gov. Perry.

[RobbyS]

Not only that. I doubt that they will have a picture of the Virgin of Guadalupe in the textbook, so that they don’t even present the Mexicans in a true light. Still back to true history, I wonder of they will tell the true story of the Comanches. My German grandmother remembered at age five of hiding under the bed because of rumors that the Comanche were on the loose and might raid the area. This is a few years after Sherman had crushed their power in the Panhandle and sent to them Oklahoma but a band escaped and was raiding Texas. Can’t think of a group of Indians less accurately to be described as victims. And they raided all the way into Mexico, so the Mexicans hated them as much as we did. But doubt the kids will read about the Lords of the South Plains.