Texas Board Of Education OKs Teaching Bible

[Revoltingest]

Texas education board approves optional Bible-infused curriculum for elementary schools

Texas’ education board has voted to allow Bible-infused teachings in elementary schools. The approval Friday follows other Republican-led states that have pushed this year to give religion a larger presence in public classrooms.

apnews.com

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ education board voted Friday to allow Bible-infused teachings in elementary schools under optional new curriculum that could test boundaries between religion and public classrooms in the U.S.

The material adopted by the Texas State Board of Education, which is controlled by elected Republicans, passed in a 8-7 final vote over criticism that the lessons would proselytize to young learners and alienate students of faiths other than Christianity. Supporters argued the Bible is a core feature of American history and that teaching it will enrich lessons.

The vote allows schools in Texas, which has more than 5 million public school students, to begin using the material in kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms as early as next year.

Republican lawmakers celebrated the vote, including Texas’ powerful lieutenant governor, who has pledged to pass legislation next year that would follow Louisiana in trying to require schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

 

[Viker]

No stopping theocracy now. Hope parents and grandparents of non-Christian households are ready for their children to be indoctrinated. Hope they're ready to explain why they're not Christian in a Christian nation.

 

[Revoltingest]

No stopping theocracy now. Hope parents and grandparents of non-Christian households are ready for their children to be indoctrinated. Hope they're ready to explain why they're not Christian in a Christian nation.

With Trump in office, I expect more such
actions. And for his SCOTUS to cooperate.

 

[Heyo]

Texas education board approves optional Bible-infused curriculum for elementary schools

Texas’ education board has voted to allow Bible-infused teachings in elementary schools. The approval Friday follows other Republican-led states that have pushed this year to give religion a larger presence in public classrooms.

apnews.com

Excerpted....
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ education board voted Friday to allow Bible-infused teachings in elementary schools under optional new curriculum that could test boundaries between religion and public classrooms in the U.S.

The material adopted by the Texas State Board of Education, which is controlled by elected Republicans, passed in a 8-7 final vote over criticism that the lessons would proselytize to young learners and alienate students of faiths other than Christianity. Supporters argued the Bible is a core feature of American history and that teaching it will enrich lessons.

The vote allows schools in Texas, which has more than 5 million public school students, to begin using the material in kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms as early as next year.

Republican lawmakers celebrated the vote, including Texas’ powerful lieutenant governor, who has pledged to pass legislation next year that would follow Louisiana in trying to require schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

Texas (and many other States) don't need more religious education, they need more history and civics. That might help the religious to understand the First Amendment - and why it has been held up in courts. It would help the economy by preventing costly legal disputes that lead nowhere.
One of the best examples where ignorance and zealotry can lead is Kitzmiller vs. Dover, which cost a school district $1,000,000.
Voters should be informed what they will have to pay for when their representatives want to go against the Constitution.

 

[Sir Joseph]

For 300 years the primary teaching book in classrooms was the Bible, with the New England Primer, McGuffy Reader, and Blue Back Speller textbooks later added - all of which taught extensively from the Bible. American children were raised in school to fear God, respect the Bible, live with virtue, and believe in a final day of judgement. In other words, they were indoctrinated with Christian beliefs that encouraged them to be morally civil, productive, responsible, loving members of society - a necessity to counter the unprecedented freedoms enabled by the new republic. Even the minority of atheists that didn't agree with the faith's doctrines could see the benefit that such upbringing acomplished for maintaning a civil society.

When the liberal Supreme Court ruled in 1963 to prohibit organized Bible reading in the public schools, they not only offended God, but also betrayed the nation's founding fathers that upheld and encouraged Christianity throughout society. Since then, our schools have been raising generations of children that believe they're unimportant evolutionary accidents with no meaning or purpose in life, no individual responsiblity to others, liable for no objective moral standards, and subject to no future day of judgement. I wonder if there's a connection between the unprecedented teen suicide rate and school shootings over the past few decades versus my generation not too long ago when the Bible wasn't outlawed.

People are free to reject God of course, but I'll maintain that America became the greatest nation in history, not by being secular, but by being Christian and garnering God's Providential blessings. I think putting the Bible back into the public schools will be highly curtailed unless the 1963 ruling is overturned. But even with limited exposure, its use is far more likely to benefit the character of children than it's present deficiency. In fact, we have school time / off campus Bible classes occuring right now across the country, and real studies show that the kids love it and reveal positive results - specifically, better school attendance and fewer behavioral problems.

 

[Wirey]

People are free to reject God of course, but I'll maintain that America became the greatest nation in history, not by being secular, but by being Christian and garnering God's Providential blessings.

The Founding Fathers would have disagreed with you in a very large way. And if you genuinely believe religion makes people behave better, I suggest you go read up on the Crusades.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

The Founding Fathers would have disagreed with you in a very large way. And if you genuinely believe religion makes people behave better, I suggest you go read up on the Crusades.

Or more recently, the Articles of Succession of the American South justifying slavery through the Bible.