Posted: 05/22/2010 at 6:56am | IP Logged

Board member Don McLeroy - It's imperative that our children be taught the original direction of our country. I think that it's important to understand why America is such a wonderful place.

Texas School Board Returns Balance to Social Studies Curriculum

by Lawrence Jones, The Christian Post

AUSTIN, TX - The Texas State Board of Education approved new public school curriculum standards Friday for social studies courses that put more emphasis on the role of Christianity in society, in government and in history.

Opponents of the proposed new textbook guidelines say the revision is a vehicle to impose and promote political and religious ideology upon millions of public school students.

Supporters of the new curriculum, however, say it is those opposed to Christianity who have been trying to rewrite the history books.

“[The fringe left] want unlimited control over what students learn, to radically change the worldview of our next generation by distorting history,” claimed faith-based legal group Liberty Institute prior to Friday’s vote.

As Texas is the second-largest textbook market in the country, the new curriculum is expected to influence publishers and thus the textbooks used in classrooms nationwide.

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Read School Board member Don McLeroy's op-ed piece in USA Today.

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