Posted on 05/22/2010 5:36:10 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
SACRAMENTO – On a 9-5 partisan vote, the Texas State Board of Education today finalized approval of several extreme right-wing curriculum changes. Due to the number of public school students in the state, the changes in Texas could drastically influence textbooks throughout the country as publishers often develop materials based on the standards of larger states.
"The idea that politicians in another state can control the content of our textbooks should trouble all Californians," said Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco). "The social science curriculum should be based on facts and not political ideology."
Next week, the California Senate is expected to pass legislation authored Yee to make certain California textbooks are not subject to the ultra-conservative curriculum changes recently made in Texas. Specifically, SB 1451 will require the California State Board of Education to review all social studies textbooks used in the state to ensure that they have not been changed as a result of textbook changes in Texas.
"While some Texas politicians may want to set their educational standards back 50 years, California should not be subject to their backward curriculum changes," said Yee. "The alterations and fallacies made by these extremist conservatives are offensive to our communities and inaccurate of our nation´s diverse history. Our kids should be provided an education based on facts and that embraces our multicultural nation."
Among the curriculum changes expected to take affect in Texas are: reducing the scope of Latino history; encouraging students to question the legal doctrine of separation of church and state; terms such as "capitalism" replaced with "free market;" labeling civil rights programs that protect women and people of color as having adverse "unintended consequences;" emphasis on "the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s," including favorable mentions of the Eagle Forum, Moral Majority, Heritage Foundation, the National Rifle Association and New Gingrich´s Contract With America; more positive portrayal of Cold War anticommunism; removal of third-party presidential candidates; labeling Confederate General Stonewall Jackson as a role model for effective leadership and a statement from Confederate President Jefferson Davis to accompany a statement from President Abraham Lincoln; and to include country and western music among nation´s important cultural movements while dropping hip-hop from the same list.
"These curriculum changes are completely unacceptable," said Yee. "Our children deserve better."
It’s been skewed for years. Now it’s set straight.
OMG! - A partisan vote!!
How often is a Conservative voice ever heard when it comes to public indoctrination centers?
California should have two sets of textbooks.
One written in Spanglish and the other written in Ebonics.
History can be changed? Why didn’t someone tell me this before the last presidential election?
And that is exactly what Senator Yee and his leftest coven cannot stand!
I’m going to boycott Kali for the rest of my life. That “state” bewilders the bejeezus out of me.
He can't seriously want Hip Hop in there as something of lasting value ~ ?!
Mr. Yee continued “We here in California do not have to stick to the dull old reality. Our children deserve a more creative approach to history. It can be any way we want it, why stick to facts.”
Thank God...you have to be really questionable to send your kids to public schools nowadays. Brainwashing central and the demise of our country. Evolution teaching without all of the major holes in the dumb theory itself is done to damage the inate faith that kids have. Criminal.
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So, Leland baby, how's that multiculturalism working out for ya?
How's your economy these days?
Here in Texas, unermployment is at an all-time high... of about 6%!
If Kalipronia would quit selling out it’s taxpayers with illegals, welfare and environazi cow crap they could afford their own textbooks.......in spanish !
We are a republic, not a democracy is back in the books I am told !
It seems to me everyone has overlooked the fact that Texas does this textbook exercise every ten years, and has been doing so for a long time.
... never. The Left has thoroughly compromised public education. The Nea and state teachers unions should be disenfranchised.
Oh the horror! ;-/
...encouraging students to question the legal doctrine of separation of church and state...
We can't have student questioning things, they need to blindly accept what they're told. Look how well that worked out in Germany in the 1930s.
terms such as "capitalism" replaced with "free market;"
Dang, they're onto us. We need to keep using terms with negative connotations (at least to some) like "capitalism" -- can't let them be associated with "freedom."
labeling civil rights programs that protect women and people of color as having adverse "unintended consequences;"
Because we all know there were no unintended consequences, right? When the government acts, it is with the precision of a surgeon... :-/
...emphasis on "the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s," including favorable mentions of the Eagle Forum, Moral Majority, Heritage Foundation, the National Rifle Association and New Gingrich´s Contract With America;
Oh no! We know these organizations, love 'em or hate 'em, have no redeeming values and therefore must be demonized according to the current libtard playbook.
more positive portrayal of Cold War anticommunism;
I am an old cold-warrior. You better believe there is a positive note there. To paraphrase odumber: we won.
labeling Confederate General Stonewall Jackson as a role model for effective leadership and a statement from Confederate President Jefferson Davis to accompany a statement from President Abraham Lincoln;
If you cannot let yourself recognize what someone is doing right or successfully, whether you agree with them on issues or not, you limit yourself -- you cannot learn from them. Gen. Jackson, love him or hate him, was very good, very effective. Get over it. Besides, I'm no sure the right side won that one.
to include country and western music among nation´s important cultural movements while dropping hip-hop from the same list.
OK, that one I don't get. Yes, country music is an important influence. I would say hip hop is also.
The problem is that the teachers who sit on Texas textbook committees are often as liberal as this guy. Education colleges are very liberal in their views, and they take intelligent people and turn their brains into mush.
LOL California won’t be able to afford enough text books to demand that makers write them just for them. There is nothing wrong with what Texas is doing everything I’ve read and heard sounds very reasonable to me. Who exactly is it that thinks hiphop belongs in histroy books? *eyeroll* And if Barrack Hussein Obama is not to be listed does that mean that now MLK is just Martin King now? Get a grip people!
This is an EXCELLENT article in that it gives us Conservatives a guide on what to talk to our kids about, such as the adverse effects of the Civil Rights movement, etc.
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