Posted on 03/13/2010 10:48:02 AM PST by Titus-Maximus
AUSTIN, Tex. — After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers’ commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light.
The vote was 10 to 5 along party lines, with all the Republicans on the board voting for it.
The board, whose members are elected, has influence beyond Texas because the state is one of the largest buyers of textbooks. In the digital age, however, that influence has diminished as technological advances have made it possible for publishers to tailor books to individual states.
In recent years, board members have been locked in an ideological battle between a bloc of conservatives who question Darwin’s theory of evolution and believe the Founding Fathers were guided by Christian principles, and a handful of Democrats and moderate Republicans who have fought to preserve the teaching of Darwinism and the separation of church and state.
Since January, Republicans on the board have passed more than 100 amendments to the 120-page curriculum standards affecting history, sociology and economics courses from elementary to high school. The standards were proposed by a panel of teachers.
“We are adding balance,” said Dr. Don McLeroy, the leader of the conservative faction on the board, after the vote. “History has already been skewed. Academia is skewed too far to the left.”
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I like the Venona addition - finally acknowledging the hard evidence of deep communist infiltration which the Left and Sean Penn have denied for years (they were all innocents), the Italian and German internment (of which I have won countless bets from utterly bewildered liberals), and the separation issue - which of course is not in the Constitution. ('Separation' got its legs out of the hate spewed upon Irish Catholics and their building of Catholic Schools - the device was picked up and used like a bludgeon by the nativists.)
Let's turn the country around page by page.
Glenn Beck said something yesterday that I thought was profound but, at the same time it was just so simple. Just simply use the letters, documents, diaries, ect, first hand accounts, from that time. That would put an end to a lot of rewording, twisting and rewriting.
Thank you, Texas.
This is the type of cultural shift that is going to have to take place in American institutions that have been overrun and tainted by the left - with education and academia being a major one.
Yay for Texas !
No doubt this is a nice change from the anti-US, white man=bad stuff that has polluted text books. I don't understand why the battle with Darwin. High school kids are savvy enough to deal with Biology. Obviously not all of us who studied Darwin have been indoctinated. Censorship is rarely a good strategy.
Sort of a Henry Commager Steele treatment of the Civil War. Unfortunately the pserson(s) who get to select the documents can bias the presentation so that doesn’t guarantee anything.
You kind of get the impression that the NYT thinks this is a bad thing. :)
Textbooks pre-1970 had a different view than the socialist'lite crap pushed for the past couple decades.
Oh, the nightmare of leftism is about to begin!!!
They thought they were winning wars. The imbecile fools! These are battles and skirmishes ONLY.
The words of Admiral Yamamoto rings in our ears:
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
What a price to pay for privilege of government paid doctors visits!!!
Well, it's about time!
They also voted to leave out the word “Capitalism” and replace it with “Free enterprise”.. which is silly since there is no such thing as “free” enterprise anymore.
I suppose your right. Better to just teach them at home if you can, and if you can’t, correct what the school teaches wrong. I think most parents that are involved with there kids, do a pretty good job of that.
Right they need to make sure to include what Darwin said about how blacks are less evolved than whites. That would certainly shake things up.
[W]ri[gh]ting the wrongs that were put in by the Libs in the first place!
Huffingtonpost has a different take on this, of course. Such a hit piece....I could cry. This is the type of stuff my liberal friends read and blindly believe.
How to post a link?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glenn-w-smith/conservatives-re-write-de_b_495293.html
Can’t tell you the story as such but there have been several articles posted over the last few days about the Education Board and the rewrites. You may take a look at a few of them for different takes. Scroll down this page and you’ll find them:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=texas
Pig sqeelings from the Libs, LOL!
“In the recent Texas primary elections, Republican Hispanic candidates won only three of 30 GOP primary contests (four others are in runoffs). Incumbent Republican Railroad Commissioner Victor Carrillo was beaten by an unknown, un-funded candidate named David Porter. The GOP ballots must have been printed on race cards.”
LOL-It takes guts to leave someone out who was also a railroad commissioner. I wonder if its because he’s black and being supported by Jim DeMint-thus destroying that articles entire point...
LOL-It takes guts to leave someone out who was also a railroad commissioner. I wonder if its because he’s black and being supported by Jim DeMint-thus destroying that articles entire point...
If you are referring to Williams his term isn’t up and thus he wasn’t on the ballot this time around.
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