Biff_Poindexter
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Texas Senate Votes to Remove Required Lessons on Civil Rights
The Texas Senate on Friday passed legislation that would end requirements that public schools include writings on women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement in social studies classes.
news.bloomberglaw.com
"The Texas Senate on Friday passed legislation that would end requirements that public schools include writings on women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement in social studies classes. Among the figures whose works would be dropped: Susan B. Anthony, Cesar Chavez, and Martin Luther King Jr., whose “I Have a Dream"speech and “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” would no longer make the curriculum cut. The bill (S.B. 3), which was passed on a vote of 18 to 4, now is stalled because the House can’t achieve a quorum while a breakaway group of Democrats is out of the state.
That law included a list of historic figures, events and documents required for inclusion in social studies classes; but would remove most mentions of people of color and women from those requirements, along with a requirement that students be taught about the history of white supremacy and “the ways in which it is morally wrong.” “Parents want their students to learn how to think critically, not be indoctrinated by the ridiculous leftist narrative that America and our Constitution are rooted in racism,” Lt. Gov. Patrick said.
Well, that is kind of odd -- you would think students learning about Susan B. Anthony and how women earned the right to vote is a good thing...and as much as conservatives reduced MLK to one single speech -- to even strike that from school cirriculum under the guise of "ANTI-CRT" is pretty revealing...
I hope the conservatives don't try to return back to their original position they held on MLK; about him being a race-baiting Communist agitator, blah blah blah....they had made so much progress on coming to terms with how wrong they were about that time period....sad....