Posted on 03/11/2010 11:17:09 AM PST by a fool in paradise
Here's the press release:
...Here are the facts. The direct quotes come from the March 10 broadcast of Fox & Friends.
Fox: "Texas board of education begins hearings today on proposed changes to textbooks..."
The truth: The State Board of Education today is expected to take a preliminary vote on updated social studies curriculum standards... New social studies textbooks are not scheduled to be selected until 2011.
Fox: "So one of the proposed changes is to start history class in the year 1877."
The truth: Texas has and always will teach U.S. History from the beginning until present day....
Fox: Abraham Lincoln and George Washington have been removed from the textbooks.
The truth: The standards, not textbook, are before the board this week. Lincoln is required to be included in the first and eighth grade history classes, as well as in the U.S. government class. Washington is required to be taught in kindergarten, first grade, fifth grade and eighth grade... Additional modifications are still possible to both lists as the board debates the standards during its March and May meeting.
Fox: Independence Day and Veteran's Day are being deleted from the textbooks.
The truth: Again, the new history textbooks have not been written yet but they will be based on the curriculum standards adopted by the board...
Fox: References to Christmas have been deleted.
The truth: A TEKS review committee briefly recommended removing Christmas from a list that mentioned one major holiday for each of the world's religions...
Fox: Textbooks adopted in Texas will be used classrooms across the country.
The truth: Each state has its own textbook selection process. Publishers may offer other states the Texas edition of a book but they are not required to select it...
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.chron.com ...
Alphabetized list of names to be included in circulum:
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/teks/social/AlphabetizedList_including.pdf
A list of suggested names to be added:
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/teks/social/AlphabetizedList_such_as.pdf
TEA Standards:
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=3643
Webcast of meeting (begins at 11am CST) here:
http://www.texasadmin.com/cgi-bin/tea.cgi
All discussions I've heard about some of the controversies casts it as "proposals" nothing is settled yet. TEA got their panties in a wad.
The truth: Texas has and always will teach U.S. History from the beginning until present day....”
The US was not here In The Beginning...
Sorry. I don;t beleive it and I believe FOX.
I think they got caught with their fingers in the cookie jar and were planning to do just this but FOX spoiled their party.
I don;t trust Educators and I don’t give a damn WHERE they came from.
They are, for the most part, anti-Western, Anti-Judaeo-Christian, ant-American, and pro-cultural relativism.
Some of their “truth” answers are very slippery.
Sounds like the TEA is doing the Texas two-step around the issues here.
Cabeza de Vaca was stomping in this state pre-U.S.
If you listen to the Left, the big controvesies are all about “young Earth”.
No discussion of whether they are pushing the myth of man-made global warming or a fetus is not life.
Myth:
Dead white men/women were going to be removed from history lessons.
Truth:
There will be chapters devoted to the teachings of Karl Marx and the beliefs of Margret Sanger.
Wrong.
They are using the technique perfected by Snopes.
They found room to include Oprah Winfrey.
Which part and why?
Texas is better than most, but no states are immune from the insidious leftwardization of school textbooks. And the censoring or rewriting of history is high on their list.
It is North Carolina not Texas that has proposed teaching US History from 1877 to present in high school.
TEA: “U.S. History since 1877 is taught in 11th grade.”
Hmmm what a dilemma...
believe Fox, or believe a bunch of “educators”..
Sorry, Fox wins.
By a long shot.
In NC the plan was not to teach any high school history prior to 1877.
Given a choice between believing a teachers’ union versus any other entity (Fox News, MSNBC, the New York Times, Joe Isuzu, Baghdad Bob, Barack Obama, etc.) I think it’s a safe bet that the union is lying.
It does look like that is the plan for Texas as well—the pre-1877 is taught at the grade school rather than the high school level. Even the high school standards for the post 1877 course look like they have major lacunae. For example, Teddy Roosevelt is not on the mandatory list of figures to include but the suggested list.
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