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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Foolish, foolish, foolish conservatives!!! They are fighting a raging Marxist forest fire with a water pistol!
Why can't conservatives see that they **MUST** MUST** MUST*** work to close every government K-12 school in this nation! They must work to see that every child has access to a low cost ( or tuition-free), conservative, and private education that **thoroughly** integrates Judeo Christian principles and our nation's founding principles into every course subject and every school policy?
1) Don't conservatives see the danger here? So?...What happens when the left gains control of the school board either through honestly winning the elections or by fraud? If the government owns the schools they there is always the opportunity for liberal to gain control. The best solution is to have no government schools for the liberals to control! ( Is a “duh” necessary?)
2) Our government schools are thoroughly infested from top to bottom by Marxists and by teachers who have been trained in Marxist dominated colleges of education. Does it matter what the textbook says, if the Marxist teacher or Marxist trained teacher can frame the argument?
3) When are conservatives going to realize that simply by attending children learn that the government has the power to take money from their neighbor to pay for a service that their parents want tuition-free. THIS IS A DAILY LESSON IN BEING COMFORTABLE WITH SOCIALISM!!!! If the government can take money from a neighbor for school, why not a thousand other socialist wants and needs?
Within one to three generations of children educated in socialist-funded, single payer, compulsory government schools it was INEVITABLE that we would have:
**the IRS
**the federal reserve
**Unions
** the feminist movement
** One World movements in the form of the League of Nations and the abominable U.N.
** FDR and his New Deal ( four times!)
** Johnson's Great Society
** the abolishment of the gold standard.
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS MADE OBAMA INEVITABLE!!!!
The reverse is also true:
PRIVATE CONSERVATIVE K-12 schools that thoroughly integrate Judeo Christian values and our founding principles would MAKE FREEDOM INEVITABLE!!! ...in one to three generations!!!
If our nation's college classrooms were full to the brim with youth well prepared to defend their faith and our nation's founding principles, their Marxist professors would wither before their righteousness! Within one generation these youth would take their places in the media, the arts, the universities, business, and government.
If we started now we could see significant change in 10 short years!!! In two to three generations we would **WIN** the culture war and the fight against Marxism.
I am very distressed that so few conservatives see the danger of government schooling to our very existence as a nation.
**MARXISM IS OUR NATION'S MOST SERIOUS THREAT! GOVERNMENT K-12 SCHOOLS ARE THE MARXISTS’ MOST POWERFUL WEAPON!!
Too few conservatives even recognize that government schools are our enemy. Of those that do, too many believe that socialist, single payer, government schools can be reformed. They can't! It is impossible to reform socialism! Simply by attending children learn to be comfortable with accepting socialism!
( Yes, I am shouting! When will conservatives “get it”?)
Correcting “what the school teaches wrong” is far, far, far, MORE work that simply doing it right the first time.
Please think about this.
It means reading all the textbooks, reviewing every day with the child, reviewing all assignments, keeping up with the assemblies and after school programs, reading all or most books and essays assigned for literature. Even textbooks that you would think would be neutral are NOT! ( For example math and science textbooks).
If a parent **really** does a proper job of correcting what goes on in the government school it is practically a full-time job!
It is far easier and more predictable to:
1) homeschool
2) use a private school that you can trust.
Hoo-ray for our side!
I agree with that. Home schooled kids always seem to do far better then there counter parts. It’s well worth the time and effort to do that. Many can’t afford private school. And single mom’s can’t do home school.
Many do. It is worth attending a homeschool group meeting to find out how they manage.
You can see the results at the TEA page which I have provided a link for below. This has not yet gone far enough to the right...keep going. How about a mandated in depth study of the CONSTITUTION, BILL OF RIGHTS, AMENDMENTS, ECONOMICS (How you can’t make chicken salad out of chicken stuff and how those that work can’t and should not be obligated to support those who don’t and how some can only get something for nothing for only so long).
Texas education vote reflects far-right views [Liberal AP “news” writer can’t mask disappointment]
April (April Castro, writer of the article in the Minnesota Paper):
Too bad you are a product of public education sweetie. If you had a proper education you might know that the original intent of the founders was to provide competitive tension between the states. People get to vote with their feet and the feet of some conservatives may bring them to Texas instead of Minnesota.
As for Ms. Knight...she looks like another community organizer product of the Great Society. Just too damn bad she got miffed and walked out of the meeting.
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index4.aspx?id=3691
Texans can comment on the new standards before they are adopted in May.
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index4.aspx?id=8235
James C. McKinley, Jr.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._McKinley,_Jr.
Jimmy:
Don’t let the door hit you in the A__ when you leave Texas. Trundle on back to New York and Cornell and whatever.
Quoting from the article, this is terrible (sic), [The changes] “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.”
Oh my, how awful! What will we do, what will we do?
Second, if you think the only way to educate your kids are through homeschool you are dead wrong. Here in Texas we do have schools that embrace traditional values, the teachers are not all wearing hitler mustaches and God is mentioned over the PA system.
The Pravda Media keeps dredging up "evolution" in this discussion about SOCIAL STUDIES coursework. It's not the SCIENCE curriculum.
Someone working for the State issued a statement last week calling Fox News a LIAR for pointing this out.
Also, I'm seeing liberal loons in Texas blaming this curriculum on Rick Perry "because these are his guys doing it!". They are elected, not selected.
I'm no fan of this just as I oppose all of the labor leaders and teaching of Marxism that they already have in the curriculum. Marx's name is listed in 3 different courses and does not appear in the same course as Joe McCarthy (neither is Stalin). That's a problem if they look at "McCarthyism" without exposing Communism and 100million dead in the 20th Century.
Stalinist lie. It's what makes political debate pointless.
It took Pete Seeger 40 years to admit that Joe Stalin had done some evil things. Human lives mean nothing to a committed Communist. Every bit as vile a Nazism.
The same people who deny any mention of God from our elected politicians also try to argue that execution meets the standard of “cruel and unusual punishment” except the death penalty has been around since that phrase was coined. Life in prison was considered cruel and an unfair burden on taxpayers.
The evolution issue is a red herring. I think one of the board members may believe in young Earth but few in Texas push that “science”.
What isn’t getting press is that man-made global warming is also pushed as established fact.
And on the concept of “creationism”, anyone who believes in a god has to either hold the view that God created everything or else “god(s)” evolved from the Big Bang as well and must be as dumbstruck by all the life on our planet as we are.
How can we teach theories about when life began when there is no discussion in biology class about WHEN a life begins in pregnancy?
You can try to deprogram your kids but some teachers these days play a subversive role trying to undermine parental authority.
I’ve seen articles (articles, not just postings) where teachers tell students “Your parents don’t know everything”, “Your parents are racist”, “Your parents are homophobic”, and “Your parents are wrong”. They do this on social issues and global warming.
They get them for 8 hours a day and have Hollyweird celebrities making indoctrination propaganda videos (on global warming, Howard Zinn’s refresher in AntiAmericanism, etc.).
Houston’s last Republican candidate for mayor was Cuban born Orlando Sanchez. He ran several times.
I know what you mean. I’m just glad I don’t have any little ones now. I’d be homeschooling if I did.
The fraud of Global Climate Change and the homosexual psychiatrists’ reclassifying homosexuality as normal point out the agendas within the “science” communities.
Yes, liberals’ mantra is “politicize everything”. And too many people let them.
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