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Parents gain access to secret school curriculum
WorldNetDaily ^ | Feb 9, 2013 | John Griffing

Posted on 02/09/2013 5:53:56 PM PST by wesagain

AUSTIN, Texas – Parents of school children across Texas now are gaining access to a previously secret public school curriculum, according to an announcement from a state lawmaker.

The CSCOPE program, an online offering that until now has prohibited, under penalty of law, teachers from sharing the lessons with parents, stirred up controversy because of its various lessons – some that were taken offline after the questions arose.

Among those issues were that the curriculum at one point taught the Boston Tea Party was an act of terrorism and Christians were cannibals, and forced students to draw a socialist flag while imagining a new socialist country.

Teachers also would have been exposed to criminal penalties for sharing CSCOPE lesson content with parents, and educators were required to teach strictly from the CSCOPE lesson plan, without additions or changes.

But Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, whose Texas Senate Education Committee held a public hearing last week investigating CSCOPE, said there now have been “significant changes.”

The Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative, which owns CSCOPE, agreed to the following changes, effectively immediately, he said.

Those include: •All future meetings of the TESCCC governing board, beginning with the February meeting, will be public with all the respective notice requirements being met. •The TESCCC will begin a joint review process of all CSCOPE lessons with the SBOE beginning ...........

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 666; antichristian; arth; cannabalism; childrenofthestate; commoncore; cscope; doelies; doerico; doevsamerica; doevshistory; doevsparents; education; indoctrination; leftismoncampus; noaccountability; notransparency; secretcurriculum; texaseducation; texasschools
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1 posted on 02/09/2013 5:54:01 PM PST by wesagain
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Nothing they do should be secret from parents. NOTHING.


2 posted on 02/09/2013 5:55:05 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: wesagain

How about “significant firings” or “significant arrests?”


3 posted on 02/09/2013 5:56:02 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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secret public school curriculum

Orwellian doublespeak!

4 posted on 02/09/2013 5:58:37 PM PST by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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5 posted on 02/09/2013 5:58:53 PM PST by narses
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7 posted on 02/09/2013 5:59:40 PM PST by narses
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Among the controversy’s was the curriculum’s treatment of Islam. Some highlights:

•“Non-Muslims in conqueror territory are allowed religious freedom (for an additional tax).”But in fact, many non-Muslims are killed in Islamic countries for exercising their faith. Almost one million Christians fled Iraq in the wake of the Iraq war because of the genocide there. Iran imprisons and executes Christians for sharing their faith.

•“Zakat (almsgiving): The duty to give away alms and to help the needy.”But numerous publications have exposed the “zakat” as a means of laundering money to terrorist organizations, with charities being fronts.

•“Allah is the Almighty God…Allah alone is the Creator, He alone deserves our devout love and worship.”This came from a section under the heading, “Who is Allah?” Some expressed concern that such verbiage lacks impartiality...........

If it's corruption and lies creepig into the public school curriculom - islam has to be involved!

8 posted on 02/09/2013 6:01:19 PM PST by wesagain (The God #Elohim# of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the One True GOD.)
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Catholic parents please put your child in a Catholic school or provide home schooling. Anything else is negligence. I say this from experience.


9 posted on 02/09/2013 6:01:57 PM PST by mgist
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Lots of stuff here: Texas CSCOPE Review
10 posted on 02/09/2013 6:04:09 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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The taxpayers including the parents paid all the bills for the public schools. The State has absolutely no right to withhold any portion of the education for the children.

Whose idiots put up this “prohibited” crap? If it is the Federal Government that put the pressure on the TX legislators, steps will have to be taken!


11 posted on 02/09/2013 6:04:19 PM PST by Sen Jack S. Fogbound (More craps we have to deal with! Prohibited my ass!)
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Sending children to government schools is tantamount to child abuse! Government schools don’t “teach.” They indoctrinate. They feed our children propaganda. Children should be kept out of government “schools” so they aren’t exposed to the brainwashing techniques designed to make the dependent, malleable, obedient slaves to the State.


12 posted on 02/09/2013 6:07:42 PM PST by Astronaut
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Texas is one of the few states still resisting implementation of Common Core, Obama’s national standards initiative, which many feel is a transparent attempt to nationalize education and progressively control classroom content with minimal parental oversight.......

Why is Obama pushing lies about Christians and promoting islamic indoctrination??? If I were a Texan I would be really pi&&ed off!

13 posted on 02/09/2013 6:07:48 PM PST by wesagain (The God #Elohim# of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the One True GOD.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

That’s what should happen.


14 posted on 02/09/2013 6:08:35 PM PST by darkangel82
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15 posted on 02/09/2013 6:08:35 PM PST by Diogenesis (De Oppresso Liber)
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My parents or grandparent's generation would already be sharpening their pitchforks, heating the tar, buying feathers and making torches. What in the Hell are we afraid of? Embarrassment? Being called homophobes, racists or religious nuts? What?
16 posted on 02/09/2013 6:10:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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My three daughters are all homeschooling. I sent my kids to government schools, luckily, they came out ok. Until we say enough is enough, unfortunately the indoctrination will continue. I perish the thought these youngsters will rule us one day. 20 years from now will be a nightmare.


17 posted on 02/09/2013 6:11:13 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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the Boston Tea Party was an act of terrorism

Nope, it was an act of economic civil disobedience.

However, the Sons of Liberty and other patriot groups did engage in acts of mob violence that weren't all that different from what we today call terrorism.

Christians were cannibals

Well, sort of. Those Christians who believe the wafer is transubstiantated into the body of Christ and that Christ was fully human are more or less by definition humans consuming human flesh. Which I think is what we call cannibalism.

This idiotic argument has been going on for close to 2000 years now and yet new morons keep popping up with it is if were a brand new idea.

18 posted on 02/09/2013 6:13:13 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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If they are teaching that crapola in Texas just imagine what they are teaching here in Murland.


19 posted on 02/09/2013 6:16:50 PM PST by big'ol_freeper ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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The Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative, which owns CSCOPE

I have no idea what The Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative is, but I should think the state should cease doing business with them.

20 posted on 02/09/2013 6:17:17 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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