Friday, May 21, 2010

BBC shows Soros-like panic that contents of US schoolbooks might be decided by Americans who are not braindead

BBC in a Soros-like tizzy that all signs of American culture are not yet dead:
5/22, BBC: "Education officials in the US state of Texas have adopted new guidelines to the school curriculum
  • which critics say will politicise teaching.

The changes include teaching that the United Nations could be a threat to American freedom, and that the Founding Fathers may not have intended a complete separation of church and state."...

  • (If the US had any leadership the UN would have been removed from this country long ago. Their corruption is available for anyone to see and read about. On church and state, the amendment says nothing about separation, "complete" or otherwise: Text:
  • First Amendment to US Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." ) ed.

(BBC, continuing): "Critics say the changes are ideological and distort history, but proponents argue they are redressing a long-standing liberal bias in education.

  • Analysts say Texas, with five million schoolchildren, wields substantial influence on school curriculums across the US.

The BBC's Rajesh Mirchandani in Los Angeles says publishers of textbooks used nationally often print what Texas wants to teach.

Jefferson out

Students in Texas will now be taught the benefits of US free-market economics (HORRORS!) and how

  • government taxation can harm economic progress.

They will study how American ideals benefit the world but organisations like the

  • UN could be a threat to personal freedom.

And Thomas Jefferson has been dropped from a list of enlightenment thinkers in the world-history curriculum, despite being one of the Founding Fathers who is credited with developing the idea that church and state should be separate." (see above definition of relation between church and state)

(BBC continuing): "The doctrine has become a cornerstone of US government, but some religious groups and some members of the Texas Education Board disagree, our correspondent says.

  • The board, which is dominated by Christian conservatives, voted nine-to-five in favour of adopting the new curriculum for both primary and secondary schools.

But during the discussions some of the most controversial ideas were dropped - including a proposal to refer to the slave trade as the "Atlantic triangular trade".

  • Opponents of the changes worry that textbooks sold in other states will be written to comply with the new Texas standards, meaning that the alterations could have an impact on curriculums nationwide."

"Texas schools to get controversial syllabus," 5/22, BBC

  • The BBC can relax, the far left controls all branches of government in this country. That they noticed something like a US state's school syllabus and called it 'controversial' is quite funny. Just reading the headline I thought, this must mean the syllabus is somewhat reasonable. ed.

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