[E. Pluribus Unum]

...the Texas school board has staged an intellectual coup d’état, voting in changes to the school curricula based on political and religious bias rather than educational criteria.

But teaching kids homosexuality and environmental religion and using the public education system as a social-engineering tool while sabotaging their math and reading skills by teaching to the lowest-common-denominator is not "an intellectual coup d’état."

[texgal]

...the Texas school board has staged an intellectual coup d’état, voting in changes to the school curricula based on political and religious bias rather than educational criteria.

Just because their textbook committees are too lazy to do their own research doesn't mean they have to use the textbooks we decide upon.

[uncommonsense]

Add to all you said - the insane practice of giving "tenure" to failing teachers after only 3 years on the job, who can then do an even worse job of "teaching" without the fear of ever being fired.

God... please remember to bless the NEA with all that they have sewn for our children.

[bgill]

Just a minute there, bud. I’m a teacher, my mother, grandmother, aunt, and others in my family were teachers in Texas so back off. I do not teach homosexuality nor have my Texas public school educated children been taught that. You’re from Alaska, so don’t tell me what Texas schools teach. Certainly, there might be some liberal idiots teaching in larger schools in the cities like Austin and Houston but the vast majority of Texans are conservatives and aren’t confused about which way they swing.