As if the situation in Texas wasn’t bad enough already.
In a move to create an American citizenry indoctrinated in Christian fundamentalist extremism, Don McLeroy has introduced additional revisions to the state’s social studies curriculum with the intention of usurping the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
I regret that he will not be tried and executed for sedition, because that is what this idiocy will most certainly result in.
You can read more about it here at Religion Clause.
Read the proposed changes here.
Also see Aronra’s video on the Texas State Board of Education here.
Baconsbud
May 16, 2010 at 4:29 pm
This is the problem with elected school boards. Many times people elected to them aren’t there for the actual education of the students but are attempting to impose some belief on them. State school boards shouldn’t decide which books should be used but it should be people in the actual fields that the books are needed for. I don’t believe they should be elected by the people of the state but elected by the school teachers themselves.
godlessmonster
May 16, 2010 at 4:32 pm
I second that.
Ralph
May 17, 2010 at 6:49 pm
A cousin who lives in Texas alerted me to this a few weeks ago. She is a devout christian, but thinks this is outrageous.
godlessmonster
May 17, 2010 at 6:59 pm
If they succeed, this could be real trouble for the rest of the country. Since Texas has such a large population, the schoolbook publishers base their textbooks on the curriculum requirements of the Texas State Board of Education.
bowl
May 9, 2013 at 8:27 am
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