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Texas ed board vote reflects far-right influences (total AP MELTDOWN!!!)
AP / Yahoo ^ | March 12, 2010 | April "Fidel" Castro

Posted on 03/12/2010 9:11:56 PM PST by bamahead

AUSTIN, Texas – A far-right faction of the Texas State Board of Education succeeded Friday in injecting conservative ideals into social studies, history and economics lessons that will be taught to millions of students for the next decade.

Teachers in Texas will be required to cover the Judeo-Christian influences of the nation's Founding Fathers, but not highlight the philosophical rationale for the separation of church and state. Curriculum standards also will describe the U.S. government as a "constitutional republic," rather than "democratic," and students will be required to study the decline in value of the U.S. dollar, including the abandonment of the gold standard.

"We have been about conservatism versus liberalism," said Democrat Mavis Knight of Dallas, explaining her vote against the standards. "We have manipulated strands to insert what we want it to be in the document, regardless as to whether or not it's appropriate."

Following three days of impassioned and acrimonious debate, the board gave preliminary approval to the new standards with a 10-5 party line vote. A final vote is expected in May, after a public comment period that could produce additional amendments and arguments.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: curriculum; education; lping; schoolbooks; texas
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Watch as leftist AP drone April Castro has a coniption fit within her own article.

Curriculum standards also will describe the U.S. government as a "constitutional republic," rather than "democratic,"

Oh...the horror!!!
1 posted on 03/12/2010 9:11:57 PM PST by bamahead
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To: bamahead

Wait AP wants us to lie to children? Who would have thought ... honestly I wish I’d gone to that school.


2 posted on 03/12/2010 9:13:07 PM PST by utherdoul
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To: bamahead

OOOOOh nOOOOOO, Mister Bill!!!!!


3 posted on 03/12/2010 9:14:46 PM PST by rbbeachkid
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To: bamahead

So they are going to teach the truth rather than the commie libs’ version of “the truth”? What a concept! That’s unusual for public schools.


4 posted on 03/12/2010 9:15:00 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (A proud American-American since 1949.)
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To: metmom

ping :)


5 posted on 03/12/2010 9:15:42 PM PST by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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Curriculum standards also will describe the U.S. government as a "constitutional republic," rather than "democratic"...

Well, freaking DUH!

6 posted on 03/12/2010 9:15:49 PM PST by BlessedBeGod (New Wizard of Oz: Pelosi as the Wicked Witch of the West & Michelle as the Wicked Witch of the East.)
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To: bamahead

I just love Texas. Must visit one day. “sigh”


7 posted on 03/12/2010 9:16:37 PM PST by Stoat (Sarah Palin 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
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To: bamahead
Sucks thought that they are taking out Jefferson & putting in Blackstone. Blackstone hated the republican form of government and was not shy about it. His works are full of disdain for republicanism.
8 posted on 03/12/2010 9:16:58 PM PST by patlin (1st SCOTUS of USA: "Human life, from its commencement to its close, is protected by the common law.")
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To: bamahead

What brutes! Won’t somebody think of the children?


9 posted on 03/12/2010 9:17:39 PM PST by Anti-Utopian ("Come, let's away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds I' th' cage." -King Lear [V,iii,6-8])
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Curriculum standards also will describe the U.S. government as a "constitutional republic," rather than "democratic," and students will be required to study the decline in value of the U.S. dollar, including the abandonment of the gold standard.

A glimmer of SANITY!!!



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10 posted on 03/12/2010 9:17:52 PM PST by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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Where the heck did this ditz study the U.S. form of gov’t.... it’s pretty clear we are a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. The only problem for these progressives is they are trying their very best to DESTROY that. What an idiot.


11 posted on 03/12/2010 9:18:01 PM PST by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: bamahead

The far left has wholly owned education from preschool to graduate school for the last half century. They’re terrified that this Texas decision is going to signal the end of their monopoly because conservatives seem to have finally figured out that they can defeat liberals on their own turf by stacking these far left dominated policy committees with conservatives.


12 posted on 03/12/2010 9:18:58 PM PST by apillar
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To: patlin

Taking out Jefferson is just not acceptable. He wrote the Declaration of Independence, for crying out loud!


13 posted on 03/12/2010 9:20:29 PM PST by DrGunsforHands
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To: apillar

Yes... conservatives (true lovers of the US Constitution) have figured out how to be COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS... well whadda-ya-know!


14 posted on 03/12/2010 9:20:55 PM PST by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: patlin

That does stink :(


15 posted on 03/12/2010 9:23:32 PM PST by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: bamahead

HA....that’s Texas for you.........


16 posted on 03/12/2010 9:24:19 PM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: DrGunsforHands

Where in this article did it say Jefferson would be not mentioned?


17 posted on 03/12/2010 9:25:07 PM PST by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: bamahead
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18 posted on 03/12/2010 9:25:11 PM PST by ansel12 (Social liberal politicians in the GOP are easy for the left to turn, why is that?)
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To: Stoat

“Texas is not where you were born, but a State of Mind, Heart and Attitude.”

“Leave us alone to live our lives in peace and we will get along fine, if that is not satisfactory, we will deal with it.”

TF


19 posted on 03/12/2010 9:28:06 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: bamahead

Thank you, Texas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W41tB1nkQtI


20 posted on 03/12/2010 9:28:57 PM PST by BAW (I'm right.)
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