Posted on 03/17/2010 8:32:07 AM PDT by Charles West
The Texas Board of Education has adopted curriculum reforms designed to counteract liberal bias in the educational system. According to the Houston Chronicle, the Democratic members of the Board objected to the curriculum reforms for not focusing enough on subjects key to political correctness indoctrination:
Ken Mercer, R-San Antonio, said the proposed standards reflect the desires of his constituents to emphasize “personal responsibility and accountability” and “to honor our Founding Fathers, and our military.”
Mary Helen Berlanga, D-Corpus Christi, said the standards ignore the Ku Klux Klan in Texas, Texas Rangers “killing Mexican-Americans without justification” and the U.S. Army's role in the attempted extermination of American Indians.
“Until we are ready to tell the truth about history, we don't have a good history or a good social studies curriculum for Texas,” she said.
She had failed in an attempt earlier in the meeting to get the history standards to identify Tejanos who fell defending the Alamo.
The board majority's conservative approach to “culture, government and the changing political landscape” was impossible 13 years ago when the social studies curriculum last was updated, said David Bradley, R-Beaumont.
“There's been a cultural and political shift in Texas, at least in the policy-making level,” he said. “We all represent a constituency. Elections matter.”
In 1997, Bradley was on the losing end of an 11-4 vote. Every conservative-pushed amendment got tabled then, he recalled.
Shifting demographics and political winds likely will produce yet another outcome when Texas tackles the standards again sometime after 2020, Bradley acknowledged.
“Mary Helen may have her wish, and it will be the Hispanic Education Agency,” he said.
At least until then, the proposed standards are aligned with the Republican Party platform's traditional call for limited government, regulation and taxation.
Hopefully the Texas Board of Education will follow up and ensure that the reformed standards are being followed, and that leftist teachers do not disregard mandates and substitute their own highly politicized material as they have done in California.
These are issues that pale in signifigance to the larger issues of taming the west and gaining independence from a corrupt Mexico. If Texas was part of Mexico now, it would be a wasteland, as would NM and AZ. California would be one big Tijuana. Yeah, things would be so much better if the Indians scould still terrorize the productive inhabitants of the land.
God Bless Texas!
As far as I am concerned the environmental movement is a religion and shouldn’t be pushed on our kids through textbooks.
Little Mary doesn't know her history does she....the DEMOCRATS were the Ku Klux Klan...they created the KKK and implemented it's "work."
Mary Helen Berlanga - got a doctorate in reading moonbat internet sites.
What a moron.
Texans, we now know who to boot out, don’t we?
(Berlanga)
Caught the end of the story about history textbooks on the “Ed Show” on MSNBC, or whatever they call themselves, last night. Ed was in a lather about conservative history textbooks being the law of the land. He actually asked the person who was reporting on the story if parents were going to remove their children from public schools and send them to private schools.
Sure they are Ed. And parents of homeschoolers and private school students are going to start sending their kids to public schools because they will be so enamored of a perceived conservative slant in students’ history books.
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