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SBOE Approves Social Studies Standards

by Brian Thevenot
May 21, 2010
9 Comments

After a series of bombastic speeches, the State Board of Education just approved the high school portion of the social studies curriculum on a party line vote of 9-5, with Geraldine Miller, R-Dallas, absent. Soon after, the board approved the middle and elementary standards by the same margin, without debate.

Democrats once again accused the board of papering over the darker periods of American history in an effort to downplay atrocities against minority groups. Mary Helen Berlanga, D-Corpus Christi, who at one point started throwing Hispanic history and civil rights books from her desk to the floor, said: “I’m ...

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Comments (9)

May 21, 2010 @ 9:30 p.m.

Sue Ann Smith via Texas Tribune on Facebook

I wish they would just go away and vanish.
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May 21, 2010 @ 9:44 p.m.

Diwanna Zapalac via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Me too! Those Nazis!!
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May 21, 2010 @ 10:06 p.m.

Cynthia Casper Robertson via Texas Tribune on Facebook

As a resident of TX, this is embarassing. Remember the Contract with America that they added? I think it should be a Contract on the Rethug SBOE members.
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May 21, 2010 @ 11:02 p.m.

Nigel Richardson via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Now come on. They're not Nazis. They're self-important buffoons who've stumbled on a way to get their pissy little rewrites of history, science and anything else they can get their hands on into our kids' textbooks. But they're not Nazis. Got to keep a sense of proportion and perspective or you'll end up as rabid as they are.
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May 21, 2010 @ 11:10 p.m.

Travis Willmann via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Yep. Leave the ridiculous Nazi comparisons to the Glenn Beck crowd. These people are simply fools appointed by fools elected by fools. That may be something they have in common with Nazis, but it doesn't raise them to the level of such.
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May 21, 2010 @ 11:22 p.m.

Diwanna Zapalac via Texas Tribune on Facebook

How true!
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May 21, 2010 @ 11:41 p.m.

Janet Rybiski Evans via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Nazis ... plan and simple
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May 22, 2010 @ 7:49 a.m.

Evelyn White via Texas Tribune on Facebook

We all can stop calling this "history". What we now have in school text books in Texas... is "Christian Fundamentalist ideology." Not history at all. Let's, at least, call it what it is.
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May 22, 2010 @ 9:03 a.m.

Irene Solnik via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Yes, let's keep perspective, these people are CFIs.
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