Posted on 12/13/2012 7:46:25 PM PST by wesagain
In the 70 percent of Texas public schools where a private curriculum has been installed, students are learning the “fact” that “Allah is the Almighty God,” charge critics of a new online curriculum that already is facing condemnation for its secrecy and restrictions on oversight.
The program, called CSCOPE, is a private venture operating under the umbrella of the Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative, whose incorporation documents state its independence from the State Board of Education of the Texas Education Agency.
Other reports previously have raised alarm over the curriculum’s depiction of the Boston Tea Party as a terrorist act on par with the 9/11 attack.
According to documentation that has leaked out, the program describes the Boston Tea Party this way: “A local militia, believed to be a terrorist organization, attacked the property of private citizens today at our nation’s busiest port. Although no one was injured in the attack, a large quantity of merchandise, considered to be valuable to its owners and loathsome to the perpetrators, was destroyed. The terrorists, dressed in disguise and apparently intoxicated, were able to escape
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You forgot fire ants, the real Texas plague.
Many Texas Freepers seem to believe that Texas is somehow exempt from the socialism blitz. Check out your public schools, look at what your public libraries are offering, listen to your politicians. The biggest tragedy in Texas is that so many believe they are not being set up for socialism. Guess again.
Other reports previously have raised alarm over the curriculum’s depiction of the Boston Tea Party as a terrorist act on par with the 9/11 attack.
Well... if you're a statist then that's absolutely true; statism is the opposite idea of those described in the Declaration of Independence -- therefore there are no rights except the ones the state bestows/allows and there is thus no obligation to the people, not for the people to revolt in any circumstance. (Even ancient China, with its "Mandate of Heaven" recognized that the government could lose that mandate... our current drive toward statism is nothing less than the drive to place all our fellow citizens under absolute despotism.)
I live in lefty Austin and the so-called progressives are infiltrating every government office while establishing several ‘non-profits’ directed at ‘aiding the children’.
These lefties are targeting the recent wave of illegals in order to build a future democrat voter base.
Surprisingly, not all of these lefties are California transplants or relocated northerners but born and bred Texans.
When you become as successful as Texan there will be some folks who suffer from guilt either from race or from ‘feeling’ to wealthy and ‘wanting to give back to society’.
Do not shun Austin like so many of you conservative Texans do, but infiltrate and attack this cancer before it spreads elsewhere.
I can fight in Austin on my own,folks!
Thanks for the ping, and thanks for providing a short background and history lesson for the non-Texans and those unaware of the way we do things here.
From time-to-time, we have to clean house (politically). Looks like it’s about time to do some ‘spring cleaning’, LOL.
I really, really want our current effort at dumping Straus as Speaker of the House to succeed. Gotta get rid of the RINOs and libs in Texas politics.
Like I said - time to clean house.
This idea that Texas is the great hope is a bit over blown I belive. They’ve got some serious problems too.
I sadly might have to agree. As a 7th generation Texas who loves the state dearly, I know that there are absolute Floods of immigrants from Mexico, South America, Asia, Arab, India and also as mentioned in a post above, many, many transplants from NE and California. While small towns and some suburbs might still have their heads on straight, the bigger cities and many suburbs are being inundated (most people I know who live in my suburb, if they grew up in Texas are pretty conservative still, but when half your suburb is either foreign or from liberal states, the flavor of things changes. Where I live has changed drastically in just the past 10 -15 years. I don’t mind some immigration but SLOWLY with specific plans that immigrants will take on the values and culture of our country, rather than coming in with the purpose of changing our country to the place they came from. It is really, really sad.
I think the only way to stop the flood is to of course crack down on illegal immigration, but also STOP the massive flood tide of legal immigration and send many of them back home. Also, cut off the welfare and medicaid candy fountain that attracts so many.
The chances of that happening? None
Why is religion being taught in schools at all?
You forgot Mexican riverine cartel pirates. Heavily armed.
The hype was superior teaching in mathematics, and sciences. It had nothing about it that said Islamic. Except ... come to find out the organization offering this school were Islamic based. Very under the table. Seems like I remember it being lower cost than most. The local 24 hour a day ‘God’s learning Channel’ began to expose the truth regarding this private school. I have no children in school so I do not know if it is still in existence or not. Haven’t heard or seen any thing regarding it.
We have noticed there is sharia law in America honored by judges. STUPID! It is not American law, and has no power or right to be here.
God help America, remove evil. We want nothing to do with Islamic law, suppression of all women, or the right to kill family for dishonoring their belief.
Because beady-eyed low-profile jihadists are pushing it.
Don't worry, we'll sic Abe Foxman and the humanist-Communist secularized Jews at B'Nai B'rith and the ACLU on them.
Then they come back five hours later and hunt for coyotes over the dead hogs using night-vision rifle scopes and infra-red laser illuminators.
Turrible! Jus' turrible! If I was from Yale or Harvard, I'd NEVER come here!
How about classroom admonitions that "allah" condemns homosexuality?
What do you Texans have to say about this? Those of you who always say “Don’t Mess with Texas” or “That would never happen in Texas”, or blah, blah, blah.
Allah is not a personal name for God. It’s just the word “God” in Arabic.
yasou’ al masih ibn allah is what Arab Christians call Jesus Christ ( the Messiah), the Son of God.
Now if the Texas schools start to make theological arguments, that’s when I’d start to object.
Sanctuary cities:
Austin, Texas
Baytown, Texas
Brownsville, Texas
Channelview, Texas
Denton, Texas
Dallas, Texas
El Cenizo, Texas
Ft. Worth, Texas
Houston, Texas (1992)
Katy, Texas
Laredo, Texas
League City, Texas
Mcallen, Texas
Port Arthur, Texas
San Antonio, Texas
What is the status of Texas' anti sanctuary cities bill? I believe it died.
“They should not even think about showing up in Texas, it’s just awful.”
You forgot to mention the huge grasshoppers. I once had a layover in Dallas and went outside to get some air and stretch my legs. It was humid and hot and there were these giant, horrifying, orange-green grasshoppers everywhere! It was like a horror movie.
If you are bug-a-phobic, stay out of Texas.
We don’t have the California welfare state though. Of course it’s a problem, but I’d much rather have the illegals than the transplants from California who come here and vote Democrat. At least you can deport the illegals.
and did you know Texas when joining the Union reserved the right to break into 5 different states.
If? Not they do? Not likely. Big difference in "Do" and "If"
Parents were left out of the picture when schools began serving up these programs as Opt out, rather than Opt in.
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