More Bible stories in public schools, changes to history lessons before Texas education board

[EvilCat Breath]

Sure you are, Comrade.

Yes. The descendant of slave holding native Americans.

 

[Hypatia415]

The State is your superstition.

Suck on that.

Christianity and Islam are.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

As those examples show, lunatics and fanatics are not unique to Islam.

Those who kill for allah are neither lunatics nor fanatics. They are the faithful of Islam around the world.

 

[candycorn]

Texas Board of Education is moving to add biblical passages to public education studies. I am sure it will be fine and not devolve into discussions about the hypocrisy of the political class vs. morality as set down in the Bible.



More Bible stories in public schools, changes to history lessons before Texas education board

Texas may require more Bible stories, change history lessons in public schools

The State Board of Education will vote on incorporating more Christian stories into public classrooms as well as on deemphasizing race and cultural diversity in history lessons.

www.texastribune.org

The State Board of Education will vote on incorporating more Christian stories into public classrooms as well as on deemphasizing race and cultural diversity in history lessons.

Texas students may soon attend social studies and reading classes that minimize racial, geographic and cultural diversity while emphasizing the Bible.

The State Board of Education has two pivotal votes slated for this week that would usher in these changes: one on a rewrite of Texas’ social studies lessons, the other on a reading list for all public schools that includes teaching Christian stories.

On Monday, board members heard from teachers, students and community members in support of and concerned about the lessons ahead of scheduled preliminary votes this week. A final vote on the changes is expected Friday.

Nearly 500 people signed up to testify in a hearing that at several points turned contentious, with heated exchanges between speakers and the removal of at least one person deemed out of order by the board chair.

The social studies proposal represents a dramatic transformation in how Texas schools have long administered lessons on history, geography, economics and government. It eliminates the current sixth-grade world cultures course, deemphasizes world history outside of European tradition and dedicates more focus to Texas and the United States.

The statewide reading list would require, among other literary works, that schools teach Bible stories to children as young as 6 years old up to young adults preparing to receive their diplomas.

If approved by the education board, both changes would take effect during the 2030-31 school year.

Conservative Republican leaders and activists champion the new lessons, which they view as “the final battle” in a push to rid Texas schools of instruction they say paints America in a negative light and trains students to hate the country.

Sociology classes, for example, currently require students to understand “the impact of race and ethnicity on society” and “analyze the varying treatment patterns of minority groups.” But that standard does not exist in the newly proposed social studies plan.

You think families are having trouble now...wait until you start pushing this nonsense down the throats of kids so they can question their single parents.... “Well, my teacher said you can’t have sex until you’re married...”

 

[martybegan]

You think families are having trouble now...wait until you start pushing this nonsense down the throats of kids so they can question their single parents.... “Well, my teacher said you can’t have sex until you’re married...”

Get rid of the LGBTQIAwhatever forced acceptance and the DEI crap and maybe I will try to care about some bible stuff in public schools.

sow the wind, reap the whirlwind

 

[Hypatia415]

Those who kill for allah are neither lunatics nor fanatics. They are the faithful of Islam around the world.

Their actions are regularly condemned by other Muslims.

 

[candycorn]

Get rid of the LGBTQIAwhatever forced acceptance and the DEI crap and maybe I will try to care about some bible stuff in public schools.

As history has confirmed time and again...if a blob supporter is asked to muster any effort whatsoever that doesn’t involve cruelty to a minority; they don’t participate.

sow the wind, reap the whirlwind

I think the yokels in Texas are not prepared for the sort of shit this sort of ramming the bible down people’s throat is going to produce. Especially when the teachers are violating the very bible verses they are teaching....

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Their actions are regularly condemned by other Muslims.

So you never heard of taqiyya. Was there ever an apology for Bataclan? The San Bernardino massacre? Charlie Hebdo? The Westgate Mall attack? Hotel Mumbai? The attacks of September 11 and October 7?

If you are trying to sell peaceful Islam, i am impervious.

 

[martybegan]

As history has confirmed time and again...if a blob supporter is asked to muster any effort whatsoever that doesn’t involve cruelty to a minority; they don’t participate.

I think the yokels in Texas are not prepared for the sort of shit this sort of ramming the bible down people’s throat is going to produce. Especially when the teachers are violating the very bible verses they are teaching....

Yeah, overriding parent's lawful teachings to their children than homosexuality is sinful isn't cruel at all..hypocrite.

LOL, you taking about throats and ramming things, you poseur bottom.

 

[Dragonlady]

Sounds good. Especially when it will be used to counter islam.

Another one who doesn't believe in the American Constitution.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

instruction they say paints America in a negative light and trains students to hate the country.

The right’s war on the First Amendment continues.

And conservatives are lying about instruction that ‘paints America in a negative light’ and ‘trains students to hate the country.’

 

[riseabovethis]

Hitler, Stalin and Mao among others all created their own educational systems and look what happened.

 

[candycorn]

Yeah, overriding parent's lawful teachings to their children than homosexuality is sinful isn't cruel at all..hypocrite.

LOL...your fever dreams are hilarious.

LOL, you taking about throats and ramming things, you poseur bottom.

Trump rammed you so much you can’t even spell right... “taking about”?

 

[martybegan]

LOL...your fever dreams are hilarious.

Trump rammed you so much you can’t even spell right... “taking about”?

Good old denial. You have nothing.

Pride isn't about tolerance, it's about forced celebration and acceptance.

 

[playtime]

 

[SweetSue92]

Texas Board of Education is moving to add biblical passages to public education studies. I am sure it will be fine and not devolve into discussions about the hypocrisy of the political class vs. morality as set down in the Bible.



More Bible stories in public schools, changes to history lessons before Texas education board

Texas may require more Bible stories, change history lessons in public schools

The State Board of Education will vote on incorporating more Christian stories into public classrooms as well as on deemphasizing race and cultural diversity in history lessons.

www.texastribune.org

The State Board of Education will vote on incorporating more Christian stories into public classrooms as well as on deemphasizing race and cultural diversity in history lessons.

Texas students may soon attend social studies and reading classes that minimize racial, geographic and cultural diversity while emphasizing the Bible.

The State Board of Education has two pivotal votes slated for this week that would usher in these changes: one on a rewrite of Texas’ social studies lessons, the other on a reading list for all public schools that includes teaching Christian stories.

On Monday, board members heard from teachers, students and community members in support of and concerned about the lessons ahead of scheduled preliminary votes this week. A final vote on the changes is expected Friday.

Nearly 500 people signed up to testify in a hearing that at several points turned contentious, with heated exchanges between speakers and the removal of at least one person deemed out of order by the board chair.

The social studies proposal represents a dramatic transformation in how Texas schools have long administered lessons on history, geography, economics and government. It eliminates the current sixth-grade world cultures course, deemphasizes world history outside of European tradition and dedicates more focus to Texas and the United States.

The statewide reading list would require, among other literary works, that schools teach Bible stories to children as young as 6 years old up to young adults preparing to receive their diplomas.

If approved by the education board, both changes would take effect during the 2030-31 school year.

Conservative Republican leaders and activists champion the new lessons, which they view as “the final battle” in a push to rid Texas schools of instruction they say paints America in a negative light and trains students to hate the country.

Sociology classes, for example, currently require students to understand “the impact of race and ethnicity on society” and “analyze the varying treatment patterns of minority groups.” But that standard does not exist in the newly proposed social studies plan.

This does not seem difficult to me at all. They're talking about social studies; that's how humans socialize and usually includes history. History is factual. You can teach religions as a fundamental aspect of humanity without favoring one or the other. This is already laid down in the law.

You don't need to favor the Woke Era of "everything is oppression", nor do you need to teach from a Christian perspective.

Social studies "grows larger" as children do, btw. That is: very young children talk about families, neighborhoods, etc. Middle elem school expands to their town, county, and state. Eventually they get to the nation as a whole, and THEN the world. This is developmentally appropriate; learning "widens" as children are able to absorb it. My point being: it is educationally sound to focus on children's immediate environment, at least in elementary school.

 

[SweetSue92]

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And yet Hypatia415 clearly prefers this over Christianity.

 

[Hypatia415]

And yet Hypatia415 clearly prefers this over Christianity.

What evidence from my posts has led you to that conclusion?

 

[SweetSue92]

What evidence from my posts has led you to that conclusion?

Your perseveration on Christianity and defense of Islam, of course.

 

[Hypatia415]

Your perseveration on Christianity and defense of Islam, of course.

I am not defending Islam. I find many of its practises vile but similar ideas exist among some figures within the US Christian community.

He might be an outlier on the extreme periphery but let us not forget what Vincent James Foxx stated in a webcast "We are the Christian Taliban and we will not stop until The Handmaid's Tale is a reality". One assumes Mr Foxx has some supporters within the USA and is not preaching to empty air.

If the likes of Mr Foxx or the late Mr Kirk, along with "pastor" Doug Wilson and those who share their views had their way American women would be disenfranchised, they would, as Mr Kirk advised Taylor Swift, submit to their husbands (whatever that might entail) and be discouraged, if not actively prevented, from having careers. Instead they would be at home, where to use a phrase they would remain "bare foot and pregnant in the kitchen".

When I look at those western men and their views I find it very hard to draw a distinction.