Also it's compulsory to learn how to load and shoot a "six shooter." Yippycayeah Mother.......ers!
Texas Public Schools Required to Teach Bible This Year
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sammielee24
The Texas State Board of Education review committee is preparing to vote on a draft of proposed standards for history textbooks. Noting that the draft has “nothing about liberals,” the Houston Chronicle reported:
The first draft for proposed standards in United States History Studies Since Reconstruction says students should be expected “to identify significant conservative advocacy organizations and individuals, such as Newt Gingrich, Phyllis Schlafly and the Moral Majority.” Others have proposed adding talk show host Rush Limbaugh and the National Rifle Association.
The 15-member committee, stacked with 10 Republicans, is expected to vote along party lines. Earlier this year, a panel of right-wing “experts” produced a report urging the committee to remove biographies of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Stephen F. Austin, César Chávez, and instead add history about the “motivational role the Bible and the Christian faith played in the settling of the original colonies.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/21/texas-history-gingr... /
Snippets from Houston Chronicle
The first draft for proposed standards in United States History Studies Since Reconstruction says students should be expected “to identify significant conservative advocacy organizations and individuals, such as Newt Gingrich, Phyllis Schlafly and the Moral Majority.”
Gingrich helped lead House Republicans to their 1994 takeover of Congress and became House speaker. Schlafly founded the conservative Eagle Forum and became a leading opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment aimed at formalizing women's equality with men. The Moral Majority formed in the late 1970s as an evangelical Christian organization that influenced politics and public policy for decades.
Another board conservative, Ken Mercer, R-San Antonio, thinks students should study both sides to “see what the differences are and be able to define those differences.”
He would add James Dobson's Focus on the Family, conservative talk show host Sean Hannity and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to the list of conservatives. Others have proposed adding talk show host Rush Limbaugh and the National Rifle Association. -
BizzyBee
Sammieswife - at first I thought your post above was a parody! So, clearly this is not just about the Bible as literature. It is right-wing indoctrination.
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beksbks
Insanity
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sammielee24
Yes it is. The right wants to change the textbooks that are used and since there is a monopoly...geez where else have I heard that word - on the publishers and printers for the books, it means that once printed up, these books will be used all over the US -not just in Texas. If people are complacent on this issue, you can expect the same books to filter across all the States and start showing up in your public schools. George Washington? Abe Lincoln? Out of the history books? The US is beginning to rewrite it's own history and we get to watch. If we take Abe Lincoln out does that mean we can remove issues around slavery and the civil war? Then Martin Luther King can be removed because one doesn't exist without the other. Talk about a very slippery slope....sammieswife.