Posted on 09/14/2018 1:42:42 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
History curriculum in Texas remembers the Alamo, but could soon forget Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller.
As part of an effort to "streamline" the social studies curriculum in Texas, the State Board of Education voted on Friday to change what students in every grade are required to learn in the classroom. They voted to remove several historical figures, including Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller.
The board also voted to add back into the curriculum a reference to the "heroism" of the defenders of the Alamo, which had been recommended for elimination, as well as Moses' influence on the writing of the founding documents, multiple references to "Judeo-Christian" values and a requirement that students explain how the "Arab rejection of the State of Israel has led to ongoing conflict" in the Middle East.
The vote Friday was preliminary. The board, which is elected to represent geographic areas, will take a final vote on these curriculum changes in November and can make further amendments before then.
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We can debate the historic significance of Hillary Clinton. Will anyone decades from now know who Hillary Clinton was? Has she done anything of historical significance?
They can vote on history? How about Hussein’s birth certificate?
Well, you know how she broke her hand?
She got stuck in an elevator and tried to yell for help.
As an old, crippled and not very well man with no kids, it don’t mean shit to me. But if you have years ahead of you and more importantly if you have children, ignoring her and what she came within a hair’s breadth of doing to this nation only insures that another like her will follow. If so, pray that you will be as fortunate then as we are now.
Haha!
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