How does a political entity takeover and dominate a republic? Through the minds of the youth.
Many in America refuse to believe this is possible, they discard the stories as over-blown media hype; they continue to send their child to school and trust that their child will be safe in the un-biased governmental system that they once attended. I was one of those trusting parents with a second grader and a kinder student unaware of how young the process really begins and how aggressive the “Educrats” are to win.
“Educrat” — One concerned more with the bureaucracy of learning than with the learning. An educator cares about what a child HAS LEARNED. An “educrat” cares how a child FEELS about the process of learning.
In North Carolina, educrats are proposing 9th graders learn “Global Studies” with an emphasis on “Global Warming” over “World History” and that American History no longer cover topics prior to Reconstruction (omitting the Revolutionary War & Civil War). The Public School system of Seattle added “Reform Math” to their classroom even after The State Board on Education, professional math tutors and engineers deemed reform math “mathematically unsound”. A Seattle judge has ruled on the side of the Washington State Board of Education. The University of Minnesota requires education students to understand and accept that they are either “privileged” or “oppressed” and be well-versed in issues like “white privilege,” “institutional racism” and the “myth of meritocracy in the United States”. The majority of teachers in Minnesota come from U of M so it is only time before these liberal agendas find their way into the classroom of elementary schools. Here are some of the ludicrous notions proposed by leftist review panels in Texas.
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Change the term American expansionism to American Imperialism
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Teach Hip Hop music’s importance to our nation but not American Exceptionalism
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Remove Neil Armstrong, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein from the curriculum
- Removal of Christmas from the curriculum
The State Board of Education overseas the curriculum for 4.7 million Texas students. The 15 members making up the board are a diverse collection of unpaid elected officials and they serve as the safeguard to our children. Over the course of the last 5 months the board has heard over 25 hours of public testimony and received over 14,000 emails in regards to the social studies curriculum. Given the outpouring of concern over the suggested proposals from the review boards the SBOE of Texas has done some great work in restoring truth, fact and offering an un-biased approach to education.
Thank you to the “Magnificent Seven” and concerned Texans from all over the state we scored a large victory in defeating and pushing the mis-guided “educrat” philosophy out of our curriculum. The “Magnificent Seven” are the conservative board members standing up to the “educrats” and they include;
Chair — Gail Lowe, Ken Mercer, Dr. Don McLeroy, Cynthia Dunbar, Terri Leo, Barbara Cargill and David Bradley
How do these insane proposals happen? The Texas Education Agency has the responsibility of soliciting and nominating names to serve on review panels. The TEA is a union of “educrats” and therefore has operated outside of Texas Code by looking only to educators in filling the review panels. Texas Code requires a mix of educators, parents and business persons sit on the review panels but currently only 4 of the 100 reviewers are non-educators. The educrats took over the process and started to push their blatant liberal agenda. The Texas State Board of Education members do not make the biased, insane proposals but it is their job to discredit those proposals and act as the shield to our children. They have done so admirably in a bold move amidst the sevidical comments and falsehoods made about them in the press.
Students in 47 of our states will begin to learn the true history of our country thanks to 10 of 15 board members who have voted to approve the new curriculum (final vote is in May and it is expected to pass). Milton Friedman has been added into the discussions in economics. The Navajo “windtalkers”, the only code never broken, were added to the curriculum. Many liberal reviewers complain about the diversity in the curriculum and yet the Navajo Indian “windtalkers” were added by conservative members of the board. Neil Armstrong, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and Christmas have all been preserved in the curriculum along with American Exceptionalism. It was surprising to find how many parents were unaware of the term American Exceptionalism, including our own president. Many think American Exceptionalism is meant to devalue other nations but in reality the term was given to us out of honor by Alexis de Tocqueville to point out the tremendous spirit of the American founders, the American hero’s, the American entrepreneurs and most of all the American people who harness the pursuit of the American Dream. There is no better way to instill a solemn pride in our nation’s youth than to teach the principles of America making us unique. The board also added the study of “judicial activism vs. judicial restraint”. Students need to fully understand the impact of judges legislating from the bench and the unconstitutional results of such activism.
The board also removed the concept of “separation of church vs. state”. These words do not appear in our constitution and educrats where exploiting the term to push their liberal agenda. The country was founded on freedom OF religion not freedom FROM religion. The attacks have already begun and while the left claims religious scripts have been added to the curriculum they have yet to provide proof of their claims as the proof doesn’t exist.
The left has also been running rampant with a distortion on Thomas Jefferson being taken out of the curriculum. In World History there is a section on “The Enlightenment Period” and under this section students learn about the creators of many philosophies. While Jefferson was the creator of many great things he was a student of Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin. Aquinas combined reason and faith to form ideas regarding natural law, self-evidence, unjust rulers and rebellion. His ideas are often quoted in the writings of Thomas Jefferson, John Locke and Martin Luther King. John Calvin fathered the idea of individual self-government with basic freedoms for all citizens. The standards will now give credit in a section under world history to those originators of the ideas and not the student of the ideas. Thomas Jefferson remains the single most referenced American and Founding Father in US History curriculum for Texas.
From Gail Lowe SBOE Chair on the distortion “A critical skill Texas students should develop as part of their education is the ability to analyze information from primary source documents. This should be a requirement for journalists, too.”
These are the battles we face in every state in this Exceptional Nation. One reporter in March called this a “battle between two differing belief systems”… excuse me but this is a battle between truth vs. fiction. My children should learn the same history I learned, my parents learned, my grandparents learned and our past generations lived… the history as it happened not a fable to command the youthful minds into statist propaganda.
“You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I’d like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There’s only an up or down—[up] man’s old—old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course. ” — Ronald Reagan
In May the board will vote for final adoption in the restoration of much truth in our history curriculum, so stay tuned as the sparks are sure to explode.
More information on the curriculum standards will be posted in April on the Texas Education Agency web site http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index4.aspx?id=1156.