By Heather Leggitt & Carol Haynes Texas Insider Exclusive
The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) recently released its approved Social Studies Standards which were voted during their March meeting. The
SBOE has done an outstanding job restoring historically accurate Texas Social Studies & History Standards while maintaining the integrity and timetable of the curriculum standards review process.
The board members reinforced
a set of curriculum standards designed to promote academic success and a legitimate sense of pride in our country our values and our leaders rather than shame America as leftwing radicals foster.
The final vote to pass the standards is scheduled for May 21 2010.
Many distortions and myths have been told by liberal educrats about what is and what is not in the standards. In a blatant disregard for public input a small vocal minority is now demanding that
the SBOE throw out these standards and permit a group of college experts" to
create new standards in order to push their own radical left wing agenda.
They are petitioning a re-do of the past year of hard-work by members of the SBOE.
They want to silence public input from 4 public hearings on social studies 30 hours of public testimony and 14000 emails. A detailed account of the facts
can be seen here.
These college and university experts" (faculty and researchers") are demanding that they rather than our elected SBOE members make the decisions about what our Texas school children learn. Indeed they want to get rid of our citizen elected SBOE altogether.
However it is educrats who have dumbed down our national public schools to such an extent that 42 of those entering college require remedial work.
These intellectual elitists have thrown our American values to the wind and they are the unelected review panel members responsible for the ludicrous proposals to remove:
- Christmas
- Albert Einstein
- Neil Armstrong
- Thomas Edison
- religious heritage language
- Independence Day
- Veterans Day and
- Christopher Columbus from Texas standards.
These changes were overruled by our elected SBOE members their expert review panel parents and taxpayers of Texas. ALL significant historical facts were returned to our Texas standards.
One of the many beneficial additions to the curriculum is the study of American
exceptionalism.
Many think American exceptionalism is meant to devalue other nations; however the term was given to us out of honor by Alexis de Tocqueville to point out the tremendous spirit of the American founders American heroes 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 nations youth than to teach the principles that make America unique.
We need to show our support of the SBOE and the fine work they have done in creating a strong and historically accurate set of social studies curriculum standards and let them know that we want them to finalize these standards when they reconvene in May.
By signing the petition here you can show your support of the current Social Studies Standards approved in March and ask the Texas State Board of Education to pass the standards with a final vote in May.
Thank you for your time and support in providing students with accurate history standards. To sign the petition
click here.
