Posted on 12/13/2012 7:46:25 PM PST by wesagain
In the 70 percent of Texas public schools where a private curriculum has been installed, students are learning the “fact” that “Allah is the Almighty God,” charge critics of a new online curriculum that already is facing condemnation for its secrecy and restrictions on oversight.
The program, called CSCOPE, is a private venture operating under the umbrella of the Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative, whose incorporation documents state its independence from the State Board of Education of the Texas Education Agency.
Other reports previously have raised alarm over the curriculum’s depiction of the Boston Tea Party as a terrorist act on par with the 9/11 attack.
According to documentation that has leaked out, the program describes the Boston Tea Party this way: “A local militia, believed to be a terrorist organization, attacked the property of private citizens today at our nation’s busiest port. Although no one was injured in the attack, a large quantity of merchandise, considered to be valuable to its owners and loathsome to the perpetrators, was destroyed. The terrorists, dressed in disguise and apparently intoxicated, were able to escape
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Nice try buddy. : ) You can’t keep me outta Texas that easily.
You forgot fire ants.
May I add that Texans, Gond bless them, will do very well to not be like the country as a whole an dprotect what they have. It is under threat, as a consequence of the state’s success.
Californians, not to mention Mexicans (illegals) and that awful charismatic good for nothing mayor of San Antonio. don’t take it for granted, oh Great State of Texas, land of:
The Texas Rangers
Houston (NASA Base)
Cowboys
The Cowboys
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Just getting started
This material about Islam is separate from text books. Our text book elected members have always been strong Christians and that is reflected in the scrutiny they give text books.
If this material is left up to school boards to use or not, conservative counties will dump it.
Well, of course, Gond means God as in God Bless Texas
More WND Sensationalism.
OK, CSCOPE is used by 70% of the districts. Chalk one up for meaningless facts.
CSCOPE is a curriculum management system. Into this system, a school system will insert various curriculum items to meet their state standards, in Texas that would be TEKs. CSCOPE them provides tools to propagate the curriculum, test to it, and help to make a consistent experience throughout the system.
The tea party claim is false, with a grain of truth. First, it wasn't a new curriculum item within CSCOPE. Second, it was an optional item, not part of a mandatory curriculum. Note though how they can mention some optional curriculum used by a few schools, and because CSCOPE is used by 70%, they give you the impression that 70% of the schools are currently teaching this.
"CSCOPE is a curriculum support system that is fully aligned to the TEKS and designed to provide a common language, process and structure for curriculum development. Groups of ESC professionals and content specialists have collaboratively clarified the TEKS so that instructional delivery is more focused to ensure success for all students."
If there is an odd item in the curriculum, the focus should be on TEKS, which drives the curriculum.
Now, if you dig into the specific charge about Allah, you find it is based on a powerpoint that supposedly is from the curriculum. For this post, I won't deal with whether the powerpoint is actually used.
The powerpoint is a section teaching about Islam. So, in the powerpoint, you learn what Islam teaches. Since Islam teaches that Allah is God, that is what the powerpoint tells you Islam teaches.
If the school tells students that the Catholic faith teaches that God sent his Son to die on the cross for our sins, that would not mean that the schools are telling our kids they need to accept Christ as Savior.
Here is a link to one site's supposed powerpoint of the curriculum on Islam. It makes no value judgments on whether Islam is true or not, it tells you what Islam teaches: Islam
Those things are nasty. My wife and I were vacationing in Galveston, and we played golf one day. I didn’t know about fire ants, and as I often do, I hit my ball off the fairway and into some bush. I had to push into the bush to hit the ball, so I did, backing up against a mound of dirt.
Well, that mound of dirt was of course a fire ant hill. Needless to say, I did not hit my ball. I did spray a good deal of bug repellant on my legs. And nursed quite a few bites. Ouch.
The Devil he is!
Yeah, it is way over rated. I suggest it is not place for carpet baggers and yankees to settle. They need to find another state to go to.
Thanks for the informative post - puts a bit of perspective on some of the borderline-hysteria comments. We surely have enough real issues and problems related to this field and many others, without creating more imaginary ones, and jumping on every half-cocked media report like a bunch of DUmmies.
Allah is Satan, and Mohammed is his demon.
If pushing Islamic Hate is prevalent in Texas schools....you know it has to be worse in other parts of the country
Hopefully Texans will rise up and stop this nonsense. Texans stood up quite well when Rick Perry and his Communist-Globalist buddies tried to push that North American Union and NAFTA SuperHighway Big Government nonsense.
Colofornian.....Mormons theology is whacky - but they’ve never killed 270 million people in their evil persuits.
Mel and Norma Gabler started attending meetings of the state school board in the 70's, when the board met to consider new textbooks for adoption, showing up with copies of the proposed texts all marked up with errors and left-wing propaganda all highlighted. The Gablers would then read chapter and verse back to the board (which is elective not appointive in Texas) with scathing denunciations of Marxist or atheist language, claims, agitprop, and so on. They'd stir the pot, and the board would, in the glare of publicity, refuse to adopt the NEA's favorite Marxist offerings. Eventually publishers got the word, which stirred the ire of the Left.
Norman Lear was a longtime Hollywood agitator who'd rolled left-wing "lessons" and "teachable moments" into his various programs. With co-producer Bud Yorkin (a Tennessee liberal), he introduced All in the Family and its laughingstock lower-class conservative mouth-breather, "Archie Bunker", portrayed by hardcore liberal actor Carrol O'Connor, and his well-meaning but uneducated wife "Edith" (Jean Stapleton) to the teachable American public in the early 70's. The show was all about "educating" the irascible troglodyte "Archie": the adult children, played by Carl Reiner and Sally Struthers, were Yorkin and Lear's tools, as they constantly Beheld with Horror and Reproved with Middle-Class Arched Eyebrows their mouth-breathing, cliche'-spewing, punching-bag father. The basic plotline was "Father Knows Least" and was stock sitcom gold, following such tour de force daddy-bashing hit series as Make Room for Daddy (Danny Thomas and his brat Marlo the archfeminist), The Life of Riley, and The Honeymooners (Jackie Gleason, Audrey Meadows, Art Carney).
Norm Lear saw what was going on in Texas and shortly launched his People for the American Way to counter Mel and Norma Gabler and enable left-wing, NEA-approved textbook adoptions by the Texas board, who were gumming up the liberal maleducation works. Since then, the voters of Texas have repeatedly put numbers of social conservatives on the board, and RiNO governors, including George W. Bush, have appointed "good-government" RiNO businessmen to the boared whenever a vacancy appeared and run RiNO's against sitting conservative members with large fluxes of political money (violating, of course, the 11th Commandment, which they'd promulgated and frequently upheld as holy text, to dissuade conservatives from doing the same thing to their candidates).
More recently, RiNOs and liberals have combined to try to remove the textbook-approval power from the Texas school board, but I don't know how those initiatives have fared at the constitutional-amendment polls. I offer the background and bare bones so other, more up-to-date Texas FReepers can fill us in, whether these initiatives have succeeded in neutering the Texas school-defense conservatives.
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Cheers!
Interesting and educational background post.
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Rick wanted to create a new appointive board.
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