The Texas Board of Education voted 10 to 5 to on straight party lines to make some curriculum changes.
Recently the Texas BOE has been spearheaded by conservatives who doubt Darwin’s theory of evolution and feel the writers of the Constitution were directed by Christian ideals. In fact, Board member Cynthia Dunbar even got Thomas Jefferson removed from a list of writers who helped spur revolution in the late 1800s and the 19th Century, while keeping St. Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin.
Which just goes to show, there may be separation of Church and State, but there's no separation between Church and Texas.
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Just Write the Damn Thing #3
5 days ago
When I took it, American History was a joke here in the People's Republic of Maryland. We spent a week studying women factory workers in Massachusetts. It's a noble idea to study women in history, but we spent one whole class period on the Civil War. We were poorly informed on the conflict itself, almost criminally so. We received no instruction on the battle of Antietam. I study military history myself quite regularly; what we received from Magruder High School was completely inadequate. The evolution of infantry weapons during the Civil War deserves at least one 50 minute session alone! I have issues with Texas textbooks, too. They teach Southern revisionism; there are actually people who walk around thinking Abraham Lincoln was a war criminal. I fear millions of American history students will walk around thinking Lincoln an unconstitutional tyrant, and Andrew Jackson as the exalted defender of the people. Did I mention we also were never informed about the panic of 1837? Not one word came out of that wimp teacher's mouth about it. Here it is, fifteen years later, and I'm still angry. High School history is a joke only the Comedian would laugh at.
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Too bad it's easier to pick out a guy with a gun from a crowd than it is to pick out the gumby-haired liar behind a lectern. Both are equally dangerous to young minds.