Um, what did they do?
Yeah...where’s the AM when you need them...LOL!
The conservatives pressed for text books teaching the true Christian founding of America and they won. The liberals walked out and the conservatives won every issue.
Woo hoo!! Go TEXAS!!
Yesterdays article: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-sboe_12met.ART.State.Edition2.4bcac76.html
Politics, sex, religion are all fair game at education board meeting
By Kate Alexander AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
State Board of Education members discussed it all Thursday, delivering a riveting drama as they trudged through another day of debate about social studies curriculum standards.
The ideological divide on the 15-member broke into a wide chasm by early evening, prompting board member Mary Helen Berlanga, D-Corpus Christi, to storm out of the meeting. ......
Board member David Bradley, R-Beaumont, characterized Berlanga's outburst as "poor boardmanship."
"Losing is hell," Bradley said. ......
Board member Barbara Cargill, R-The Woodlands, objected to a standard for a high school sociology course that addressed the difference between sex and gender. It was eliminated in a 9-to-6 vote........
In a wide-ranging debate, the board members grappled with the right to bear arms, the gold standard, hip-hop and genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.
They also polished up references to the American "free enterprise" economic system and removed most mentions of "capitalism," a word that board member Ken Mercer, R-San Antonio, said has a negative connotation. ....
"Thus far, the liberal efforts to infiltrate, indoctrinate and saturate our social studies with narrow ideology have failed," Saenz said.
A preliminary vote on the standards is scheduled for today, with a final decision in May. .........
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