FU*K the Texas Board of Indoctrination

[PadawanBater]

Texas board adopts social studies standards

AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas State Board of Education has preliminarily adopted new social studies standards after days of heated debate marked by race and politics, shaping what teachers will be required to cover in social studies, history and economics classes for millions of students for the next decade. In amendment after amendment, the board's ultra-conservative faction wielded their power to shape lessons on the civil rights movement, the U.S. free enterprise system, religion and hundreds of other topics. The board voted 11-4 to adopt the standards Friday, after almost three days of emotional debate. A final vote is expected in May.

Decisions by the board - long led by social conservatives who have advocated ideas such as teaching more about the weaknesses of evolutionary theory - affects textbook content nationwide because Texas is one of publishers' biggest clients.

“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."
Republican Terri Leo, a member of the powerful Christian conservative voting bloc, called the standards “world class" and “exceptional."

In earlier votes, the elected board - made up of lawyers, a dentist and a weekly newspaper publisher among others - rejected an attempt to ensure that children learn why the U.S. was founded on the principle of religious freedom.

But the board agreed to strengthen nods to Christianity by adding references to “laws of nature and nature's God" to a section in U.S. history that requires students to explain major political ideas.

They agreed to strike the word “democratic" in references to the form of U.S. government, opting instead to call it a “constitutional republic."

In addition to learning the Bill of Rights, the board specified a reference to the Second Amendment right to bear arms in a section about citizenship in a U.S. government class and agreed to require economics students to “analyze the decline of the U.S. dollar including abandonment of the gold standard."

Conservatives beat back multiple attempts to include hip-hop as an example of a significant cultural movement.

They argued over how historic periods should be classified (still B.C. and A.D., rather than B.C.E. and C.E.); whether or not students should be required to explain the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its impact on global politics (they will); and whether former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir should be required learning (she will).

Numerous attempts to add the names or references to important Hispanics throughout history also were denied, inducing one amendment that would specify that Tejanos died at the Alamo alongside Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie.

A day earlier, longtime board member Mary Helen Berlanga accused her colleagues of “whitewashing" the standards and walked out of the panel's meeting in frustration.

Berlanga also bristled when the board approved an amendment that deletes a requirement that sociology students “explain how institutional racism is evident in American society."


These people are not fit to serve on the Board of Education in Texas. If I were a citizen of that state, I would urge my representatives to handle this situation immediately.

[dukeofbaja]

Talk about shitting the bed

[max420thc]

whats a matter someone kicking your commie ideas out of TEXAS schools?If TEXAS leaves the union the USA will be done.
with Perry as governor it might happen. Screw these commies running washington

[max420thc]

you genius's bankrupted california with your stupid ideas now we have barbra boxer, fienstien waxman,it looks like the whole cast from the bar scene in star wars from cali in washington.
so much for the collective intelligence of cali.

[Rob Roy]

One of the problems with public schools is the curriculum, whitewashing history and the very real potential for mass indoctrinatin. The 10th plank of the Communist manifesto? Implement public schools.

[fitch303]

Yeah lets learn about hip hop and the people who wear their pants down their ass, don't speak proper english, refer to women as ho's and bitches, bragging about guns and killing niggas. No thanks.

Fuck these people who want to warp our history

"A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have" -Thomas Jefferson

They don't teach him in our public schools anymore. Not while the NEA is trying to groom "subjects" as opposed to citizens.

[redivider]

whether or not you like it, mr. fitch, hip-hop music IS the most INFLUENTIAL genre on the airwaves today. the hip-hop we listen to today is not hip hop. it's club music. listen to some old school hip-hop and you'll see how it really voiced the issues and concerns of african americans in the late 80s, early 90s. i don't think Ice-T's "Cop Killer" is an admirable song, yet it does speak of the hate felt by minorities towards abusive police. IT IS A PART OF HISTORY, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.

and there were tejanos fighting alongside gringos at the alamo too, whether you like it or not.

and thomas jefferson was one of the founding fathers, whether he was christian or deist...

and all that stuff you know but you take for granted won't be taught in school anymore.

i'm an atheist, but i grew up in a christian house, i was taught since i was a kid about the bible and I know it. i didn't appreciate that until i met a teen who grew up atheist, didn't even know what the bible was.... i felt sorry for him because he wasn't as fortunate as me to have been taught about religion, and then when i grew up i made my choice, an informed choice... i took that knowledge for granted....

it's one thing to be taught about everything, and then to create a point of view. this is what we should be doing.

it is another to subject our kids to voluntary ignorance, and expect them to grow into more enlightened and knowledgeable people.

this type of playing around with what kids learn is hurting the US educational system, making american students dumber and dumber, and will contribute to the decline of the US state.

[londonfog]

are the kids still going to be taught that Christopher Columbus discovered America....????

[PadawanBater]

whats a matter someone kicking your commie ideas out of TEXAS schools?If TEXAS leaves the union the USA will be done.
with Perry as governor it might happen. Screw these commies running washington

Dude, fuck Texas, I'll help it succeed from the union! The 75% of people currently breeding are only damaging the current system by introducing harmful genetic material into the gene pool with all the cousin lovin' goin' on... Clearly, otherwise how the fuck do you explain the stupidity of this board of indoctrination? The other 25%, the smart ones, will pick up and move their shit when Texas leaves.

Dictionary.com - look up the word "communist".

Thomas Jefferson was such a commie, what with his "separation of church and state"...

Yeah lets learn about hip hop and the people who wear their pants down their ass, don't speak proper english, refer to women as ho's and bitches, bragging about guns and killing niggas. No thanks.

Fuck these people who want to warp our history

"A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have" -Thomas Jefferson

They don't teach him in our public schools anymore. Not while the NEA is trying to groom "subjects" as opposed to citizens.

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it never happened. Choosing what history our youth learns about is indoctrination. The objective of these asshats is to get their conservative bullshit into the kids minds, essentially BRAINWASH them so that in 10-15 years when someone brings up something important Jefferson said, the kids of the future with such educations will place lower emphasis on these people. Thomas Jefferson is arguably the most influential founding father, to replace the man with John Calvin is a slap in the face to honest education and honest educators alike.

whether or not you like it, mr. fitch, hip-hop music IS the most INFLUENTIAL genre on the airwaves today. the hip-hop we listen to today is not hip hop. it's club music. listen to some old school hip-hop and you'll see how it really voiced the issues and concerns of african americans in the late 80s, early 90s. i don't think Ice-T's "Cop Killer" is an admirable song, yet it does speak of the hate felt by minorities towards abusive police. IT IS A PART OF HISTORY, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.

and there were tejanos fighting alongside gringos at the alamo too, whether you like it or not.

and thomas jefferson was one of the founding fathers, whether he was christian or deist...

and all that stuff you know but you take for granted won't be taught in school anymore.

i'm an atheist, but i grew up in a christian house, i was taught since i was a kid about the bible and I know it. i didn't appreciate that until i met a teen who grew up atheist, didn't even know what the bible was.... i felt sorry for him because he wasn't as fortunate as me to have been taught about religion, and then when i grew up i made my choice, an informed choice... i took that knowledge for granted....

it's one thing to be taught about everything, and then to create a point of view. this is what we should be doing.

it is another to subject our kids to voluntary ignorance, and expect them to grow into more enlightened and knowledgeable people.

this type of playing around with what kids learn is hurting the US educational system, making american students dumber and dumber, and will contribute to the decline of the US state.

+rep

[medicineman]

are the kids still going to be taught that Christopher Columbus discovered America....????

In 1492, columbus sailed the ocean blue, hit a rock, split his cock, and pissed all over the crew. They taught that in 5th grade I believe.