Texas schools to rewrite history

[Prolescum]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/16/texas-schools-rewrites-us-history

US Christian conservatives drop references to slave trade and sideline Thomas Jefferson who backed church-state separation

Cynthia Dunbar does not have a high regard for her local schools. She has called them unconstitutional, tyrannical and tools of perversion. The conservative Texas lawyer has even likened sending children to her state's schools to "throwing them in to the enemy's flames". Her hostility runs so deep that she educated her own offspring at home and at private Christian establishments.

Now Dunbar is on the brink of fulfilling a promise to change all that, or at least point Texas schools toward salvation. She is one of a clutch of Christian evangelists and social conservatives who have grasped control of the state's education board. This week they are expected to force through a new curriculum that is likely to shift what millions of American schoolchildren far beyond Texas learn about their history.

The board is to vote on a sweeping purge of alleged liberal bias in Texas school textbooks in favour of what Dunbar says really matters: a belief in America as a nation chosen by God as a beacon to the world, and free enterprise as the cornerstone of liberty and democracy.

 

[Private_slim]

 

[5810Singer]

In the past 10yrs I've heard a number of prominent US political figures, (I believe Ann Coulter was one of them), who have stated their belief that the USA is God's kingdom on Earth, and that US citizens are God's chosen people.

I have even heard it proposed that somewhere in the US is the site of the Garden of Eden.

 

[Private_slim]

In the past 10yrs I've heard a number of prominent US political figures, (I believe Ann Coulter was one of them), who have stated their belief that the USA is God's kingdom on Earth, and that US citizens are God's chosen people.

I have even heard it proposed that somewhere in the US is the site of the Garden of Eden.

yeah... right..,

 

[theyounghistorian77]

And yet the Neo-Conservatives have the Gall to accuse anyone who isn't one of them of "Changing History for their own ends" :lol: :lol: :lol:

Seriously, I do not know how this will affect teaching of the 30's and 40's (The article doesn't say) but If things like the Holocaust and (especialy the) Holodomor aren't properly taught. I at least know who to blame.

But the article highlighted is disturbing nonetheless