Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller, to Be Cut From Texas History Curriculum
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The Texas Board of Education says it’s trying to “streamline” the social studies curriculum in its public schools, and one way it plans on doing so is by getting rid of two big names from the required learning plan.
The Dallas Morning News reports that on Friday, the board held a preliminary vote and decided to nix Hillary Clinton from high school history class.
As the first woman to nab a major political party’s presidential nomination, Clinton appeared alongside Thurgood Marshall and Sandra Day O’Connor, among others, in a “citizenship” section of the curriculum in which students were tasked to “evaluate the contributions of significant political and social leaders in the United States.”
A work group made its recommendations to the board based on a rubric it created on how “essential” it was to learn about certain historical figures. Also cut, but from the elementary school curriculum: Helen Keller.
“Helen Keller does not best represent the concept of citizenship,” the group wrote. “Military and first responders are best represented.” By the group’s gauge, Clinton received just 5 points out of 20; Keller got 7. Some wonder how much time will really be saved by nixing these notable figures.
“It won’t take that long to teach about either woman. they happen to be part of history,” tweeted pundit Greta Van Susteren. The work group estimates cutting Clinton will save about 30 minutes of teaching time, while yanking Keller will free up 40.
What the BOE voted to keep in the state curriculum: references to “Judeo-Christian values” and “a requirement that students explain how the ‘Arab rejection of the State of Israel has led to ongoing conflict’ in the Middle East,” per the Morning News.
These decisions aren’t set in stone: There’s still a chance for the BOE to make changes before a final November vote.
Edited via Newser.
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I cannot even with these idiots anymore, Cannot fucking even.
Set in stone? Stamped in dogshit seems more descriptive to me. One of my hot buttons (yes I have a whole keyboard full of them) is that old trope “Judeo-Christian.” I see it as a pathetic, fraudulent attempt to give a Jewish origin to a melange of pagan cults. Sure, there may have been a Galilean reformer/revolutionary man called Joshua in the first century – a large number actually, but Christianity is the child of other parents. It may be more accurate to say Islamo/Christian in fact, but Christians are hardly going to invite comparison as Mohammad’s claim to prophecy is no less legitimate than anyone else’s.
more than 200 years after the deliberate construction of the first secular, democratic republic, it’s still under siege and surrounded by crusaders who care about nothing but enforcing conformity of myth through suppression of facts. Any attempt at compromise is like bringing the Trojan horse inside the gates.
There is no shortage of churches with sunday schools and no limitation on how much dishonesty and repression of higher cerebral function one can expose children to. We can’t allow them to make it seem like we’re repressing what has worked out to be the destroyer of liberty and the protector of ignorance by teaching science and math and things that are long since proved beyond reasonable doubt. It’s an assault on the concept of truth.
This is tragic on so many levels. Many textbooks at the elementary levels are influenced by Texas it basically rewrites, or overwrites history. This was one of the points that Orwell tried to get across in his book.
How to get around this.
Find out what the Texas Board of Education wants to cut and include it.
Find out what the Texas Board of Education wants to include and cut it.
That could work!