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2010-05-22 Home Front: Culture Wars

Texas schools to get controversial syllabus

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Posted by tipper 2010-05-22 01:55|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-05-22 02:27|| 2010-05-22 02:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Leftists complaining about politization in education. I thought I had seen everything.

Posted by JFM 2010-05-22 02:58|| 2010-05-22 02:58|| Front Page Top

#3 "The changes include teaching that the UN could be a threat to American freedom, and that the Founding Fathers may not have intended a complete separation of church and state."

-It could be a threat? ...The Founders never did intend a complete separation - SCOTUS eroneously used a private letter from Jefferson to the Conn. Baptists to form that opinion in the 70s - *and* they took that letter out of context. Laughable jurisprudence...I would have this BBC reporter see the 1st amendment - pretty easy to read.

"Critics say the changes are ideological and distort history."

-no different then what's been going on since abt 1960?

"Analysts say Texas, with five million schoolchildren, wields substantial influence on school curriculums across the US...publishers of textbooks used nationally often print what Texas wants to teach."

-bingo, which is why the libs are scared of this.

"Jefferson out"

-wrong, he was moved from one section to another - this is the biggest lie of the bunch. Parrot Press Corps.

"Students in Texas will now be taught the benefits of US free-market economics and how government taxation can harm economic progress."

-Finally!

"They will study how American ideals benefit the world but organisations such as the UN could be a threat to personal freedom."

-and the problem here is?

"And Thomas Jefferson has been dropped from a list of enlightenment thinkers in the world-history curriculum, despite being one of the Founding Fathers who is credited with developing the idea that church and state should be separate."

-except that TJ was never a euro enlightenment philosopher -- that would be Calvin, etc. He's still prevalent in the section abt the Amer Founding and given his due credit.

"The doctrine has become a cornerstone of US government, but some religious groups and some members of the Texas Education Board disagree, our correspondent says."
-anybody whose read the U.S. Const and understands how it was formed would disagree. ..."Congress shall make no law..."

"The board, which is dominated by Christian conservatives, voted nine-to-five in favour of adopting the new curriculum for both primary and secondary schools."

-and I might argue w/their creationist inputs but I agree when they added the rest of the story about Joe McCarthy now that the verona papers are out.

"But during the discussions some of the most controversial ideas were dropped - including a proposal to refer to the slave trade as the "Atlantic triangular trade"."

--Prolly a good call. NO need to reverse PC slavery - that's a lib move.

"Opponents of the changes worry that textbooks sold in other states will be written to comply with the new Texas standards, meaning that the alterations could have an impact on curriculums nationwide."

-would that it were so...

Posted by Broadhead6 2010-05-22 06:16|| 2010-05-22 06:16|| Front Page Top

#4 I agree with what I read. Sounds like a good move. Thomas Jefferson dropped? Not a good move. Why not teach who he was, what he stood for, and the influence he had on the development of our country? I thought that his take on separation of church and state was that there should be no state-adopted church such as the Church of England.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-05-22 10:18|| 2010-05-22 10:18|| Front Page Top

#5 wanna bet the activists want more emphasis on Cesar Chavez and Harvey Milk than on Thomas Jefferson?

Posted by Frank G 2010-05-22 11:03|| 2010-05-22 11:03|| Front Page Top

#6 The chavez milk has gone sour...

Posted by M. Murcek 2010-05-22 11:14|| 2010-05-22 11:14|| Front Page Top

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