Texas: Replacing Education With 'Bible-Based' Curriculum

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Gov Abbott could stop this, but my guess it that he is promoting it!




Texas: Replacing Education With 'Bible-Based' Curriculum
Texas, man.
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/11/replacing-special-education-bible-based

By Jessica Corbett — November 25, 2024


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Parents, teachers, and other critics of Christian nationalism were outraged by a Texas board's Friday vote to approve a "Bible-infused" curriculum for elementary school students—part of a broader right-wing push to force Christianity into public education.


"They chose politics over what's best for students, promoting an evangelical Christian religious perspective and undermining the freedom of families to direct the religious education of their own children," declared the Texas Freedom Network, accusing the State Board of Education (SBOE) of ignoring warnings from religious studies experts, national media attention, and overwhelming negative feedback from the people they're elected to serve."

Like a preliminary vote Tuesday, eight of the SBOE's 15 members voted to approve Bluebonnet Learning, instructional materials proposed by the Texas Education Agency. Three Republicans joined all four Democrats in opposing the curriculum. The deciding vote in favor of it was cast by Leslie Recine, a Republican recently appointed by GOP Gov. Greg Abbott to temporarily fill a vacant seat.

"In a state as diverse as Texas, home to millions of people from countless faiths and beliefs, the Texas Republicans on the State Board of Education voted to incorporate Biblical teachings into the state curriculum—completely undermining religious freedom," said Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa in a statement after the final vote.
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Although the curriculum isn't required, The Texas Tribunereported, "the state will offer an incentive of $60 per student to districts that adopt the lessons, which could appeal to some as schools struggle financially after several years without a significant raise in state funding." ...........................

[surfered]

1. If your version of the Bible allows you to support a Presidential candidate...

…who committed adultery on all three of his wives, stole from his charitable foundation, was found liable for rape, boasts about sexually assaulting women, falsified business records to cover up payments to a porn star, defrauded students in Trump University, and lies repeatedly and shamelessly, maybe your beliefs aren’t appropriate for our school children.

[Ocelot II]

2. It might actually be nice if they taught kids about loving their neighbors,

feeding the hungry, curing the sick, clothing the naked, welcoming the stranger and all that woke stuff, but their "Bible-based" curriculum will probably have more to do with sin and punishment and how Christianity is the only true religion and you'll go to Hell if you aren't a believer.

[Skittles]

4. their "faith" is utter fucking bullshit

they support CRUELTY

[Botany]

3. Thomas Jefferson, "As if a wall between church and state"

Christo Facsist mother fuckers. They want to make their religious gibberish the law
of the land. They want to go their bible based church aka right wing horse shit and have
their kids infected by a Christian education but leave the rest of us alone.

[TBF]

5. Abbott handpacked the deciding vote on bluebell curriculum -

"Leslie Recine — a Republican whom Gov. Greg Abbott appointed to temporarily fill the State Board of Education’s District 13 seat vacated by former member Aicha Davis, a Democrat who ran successfully for a Texas House seat earlier this year — voted for the curriculum.

Abbott handpicked Recine, who was the deciding vote on the materials, to fill the seat through the end of the year days before the general election, bypassing Democrat Tiffany Clark. A majority of District 13 residents voted this election for Clark to represent them on the board next year. She ran unopposed."

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/19/texas-sboe-bible-christianity-curriculum/