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The nation’s public school curriculum may be in for a Texas-sized overhaul, if the Lone Star state’s influential recommendations for changes to social studies, economics and history textbooks are fully ratified later this spring. Last Friday, in a 10-to-5 vote split right down party lines, the Texas State Board of Education approved some controversial right-leaning alterations to what most students in the state
Originally posted by Vindaru
I thought I would post this, seeing as how I couldn't find it anywhere else. History should be a non-biased subject.
It's all swings and roundabouts. No country is innocent and our next generations, being taught history should be made aware of the facts without prejudice.
Succeeding at this would help them toward their ultimate goal of reshaping American society. As Cynthia Dunbar, another Christian activist on the Texas board, put it, “The philosophy of the classroom in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next.”
Originally posted by Hadrian
which liberals control america?
Did I say anything bad about Thomas Jefferson?
Originally posted by Scramjet76
reply to post by butcherguy
What is your post supposed to mean? That teaching kids about Thomas Jefferson is "vanilla?"
You can thank Jefferson for the fact that this country is great. If they wouldn't have seperated State & Religioun from the beginning, we'd most likely have a gov't similar to Iran. Is that what people want?
This is just sad sad pathetic news.......