SBOE's History Rewrite May Ultimately Not Matter
As the State Board of Education again plows into the state social studies standards this week, with more ideological edits on tap and a final vote expected Friday, hanging over the proceedings will be questions over whether the board’s work could ultimately be undone — and whether its impact, even if the changes stand, will match months of political infighting and hype.
Starting with a public hearing today, Texas will again become the backdrop for national coverage and ridicule of squabbling over church-state separation, the inclusion of minority figures and events, and whether overt patriotism amounts to a whitewash of ...
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Jesus B Ochoa via Texas Tribune on Facebook
A delicious take on the silly Dunbar by my pal Susan over at the beauty salon:
"Cynthia Dunbar does not have a high regard for her local schools. She has called them unconstitutional, tyrannical and tools of perversion. The conservative Texas lawyer has even likened sending children to her state’s schools to “throwing them in to the enemy’s flames”. Her hostility runs so deep that she educated her own offspring at home and at private Christian establishments."
http://juanitajean.com/2010/05/17/cynthia-dunbar-d-i-v-o-r-c-e/#comments
Paul Theobald via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I cannot understand how any sort of majority can be ok with writing a politicized, skewed, and selective version of history, much less teaching it to the PUBLIC as truth. I believe other Texans have agreed with me as shown through the removal of the far right leaders of the SBOE through recent elections.
Kevin Cain via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Makes me glad I graduated Two years ago, favorite subject was history and I always knew they skewered it, but I never knew how badly.
Kim Batchelor via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Dallas-Fort Worth's Channel 5 news text poll this morning: Text 1 if you want the TX social studies standards to reflect Christian values, Text 2 if you want more inclusion of women and minorities, and Text 3 if you like the existing standards. Since when did options 1 and 2 conflict? Many of us think that the revised standards are actually, un-Christian. Disappointing when the news media is going along with this.
Just as an FYI, Channel 5's web site has a comment form under "Contact Us."
Marc Lippincott via Texas Tribune on Facebook
@Kim...right on.
Evelyn White via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Makes me glad I graduated high school, many, many, years ago. Before History (American and Texas) became a political battleground.
AdamColligan
When you're assessing what the power of the far-right faction might be come January, you shouldn't assume that Ken Mercer is going to keep his gig in District 5. It's a winnable district for Democrats in the kind of environment that the current board has created for itself, and Dr. Rebecca Bell-Metereau is mounting a very strong campaign to unseat him.
Mary Lynn VanZandt Neill via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Figures.