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FREEP This Poll! Do you support the Texas Board of Education's curriculum changes?
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Posted on 05/20/2010 12:28:23 PM PDT by Thurston_Howell_III

The Texas Board of Education is poised to enact a new social-studies curriculum that portrays America as a nation rooted in Biblical values and promotes the virtues of low taxes, limited regulation and free enterprise. Those standards have provoked heated debate in the state similar to the one that broke out last year when the board overhauled the science curriculum. What do you think? Are Texas' new standards appropriate? Or are they changing the curriculum in a way that is not representative of the rest of the country?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: schoolfreep; texas; textbooks
Currently:

107 YES 204 NO

1 posted on 05/20/2010 12:28:24 PM PDT by Thurston_Howell_III
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To: Thurston_Howell_III

Voted yes but this thing needs some serious help.


2 posted on 05/20/2010 12:29:46 PM PDT by Grunthor (Faster than the speed of smell.)
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To: Thurston_Howell_III

Is there a way to vote without having to register and join a group?


3 posted on 05/20/2010 12:30:56 PM PDT by 84rules ( Ooh-Rah! Semper Fi!)
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To: Thurston_Howell_III

Needs more information about what is being presented in the textbooks.


4 posted on 05/20/2010 12:32:06 PM PDT by Codeflier (Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama - 4 democrat presidents in a row and counting...)
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To: 84rules

Just voted.

This needs help.

Only 40% support the heros of the modern day Alamo here.

The rest support the current anti-western, anti-American pablum being spoonfed to young minds at present.


5 posted on 05/20/2010 12:34:11 PM PDT by ZULU
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To: Thurston_Howell_III
[...] that portrays America as a nation rooted in Biblical values and promotes the virtues of low taxes, limited regulation and free enterprise.

Ummm... like, the TRUTH? How novel is that?

6 posted on 05/20/2010 12:34:36 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit)
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To: Thurston_Howell_III

Thanks

Now 49.5% Yes 50.5% No


7 posted on 05/20/2010 12:41:33 PM PDT by ricmc2175
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To: 84rules

It didn’t ask me to register


8 posted on 05/20/2010 12:45:33 PM PDT by Thurston_Howell_III (Ahoy polloi... where did you come from, a scotch ad?)
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To: Thurston_Howell_III

Over 50% say YES.


9 posted on 05/20/2010 12:47:25 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: Thurston_Howell_III
That is about the most incomplete and misleading poll question I've ever seen;
about an inch away from "have you stopped beating your wife?
10 posted on 05/20/2010 12:48:52 PM PDT by norton
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To: norton

I, for one, have not stopped beating her.


11 posted on 05/20/2010 12:51:44 PM PDT by Thurston_Howell_III (Ahoy polloi... where did you come from, a scotch ad?)
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To: Thurston_Howell_III

Love it, which is why I’m going to be going down and teaching there!


12 posted on 05/20/2010 1:21:29 PM PDT by BenKenobi (I want to hear more about Sam! Samwise the stouthearted!)
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To: BenKenobi

62% YES vs. 38% no


13 posted on 05/20/2010 1:23:54 PM PDT by Axelsrd
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To: Thurston_Howell_III

Bump


14 posted on 05/20/2010 1:29:45 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: Thurston_Howell_III

Yes is up to 65% now. Told all my friends to go and vote. Need to keep this % going up.


15 posted on 05/20/2010 2:41:21 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Thurston_Howell_III

as of now

Do you support the Texas Board of Education’s plan for social studies curriculum changes that portray America as a nation rooted in Biblical values?

Yes: 66% 551 votes

No: 34% 284 votes

Total votes: 835


16 posted on 05/20/2010 4:44:31 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Thurston_Howell_III

“The Texas Board of Education is poised to enact a new social-studies curriculum that portrays America as a nation rooted in Biblical values and promotes the virtues of low taxes, limited regulation and free enterprise.”


Anyone with a walnut for a brain can read out constitution and declaration of Independence and conclude this. And the Left is acting like it’s propaganda.


17 posted on 05/22/2010 4:00:07 AM PDT by CommieCutter (Obamanomics :Privatize Gains, Socialize Losses.)
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