school curriculum - What He Said: The Words of Jesus Christ https://whathesaid.com Making the words of Jesus Christ easy to read and explore Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:19:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Texas Textbooks https://whathesaid.com/2010/01/12/texas-textbooks/ https://whathesaid.com/2010/01/12/texas-textbooks/#respond Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:19:25 +0000 https://whathesaid.com/?p=273 The Texas State Board of Education is meeting in Austin this week to discuss and debate proposed changes to the state’s history curriculum. The central issue is whether to put more emphasis on Christianity in students’ history books. Conservatives David Barton and the Rev. Peter Marshall support the move, while others turn to the separation-of-church-and […]

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]]> The Texas State Board of Education is meeting in Austin this week to discuss and debate proposed changes to the state’s history curriculum. The central issue is whether to put more emphasis on Christianity in students’ history books. Conservatives David Barton and the Rev. Peter Marshall support the move, while others turn to the separation-of-church-and state position:

“People who have a particular axe to grind, a particular view point to promote are trying to hijack school curriculum to promote their point of view about one specific religion.” — Dotty Griffith, ACLU of Texas

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