[lbo-talk] Request: Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin

Chuck Grimes cgrimes at rawbw.com
Mon Mar 22 17:23:26 PDT 2010


Could someone please send me the original post on "Texas School Board..." please

Ismail

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Here I think is the first:

http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20100315/004008.html

``9:30 – Board member Cynthia Dunbar wants to change a standard having students study the impact of Enlightenment ideas on political revolutions from 1750 to the present. She wants to drop the reference to Enlightenment ideas (replacing with “the writings of”) and to Thomas Jefferson. She adds Thomas Aquinas and others. Jefferson’s ideas, she argues, were based on other political philosophers listed in the standards. We don’t buy her argument at all. Board member Bob Craig of Lubbock points out that the curriculum writers clearly wanted to students to study Enlightenment ideas and Jefferson. Could Dunbar’s problem be that Jefferson was a Deist? The board approves the amendment, taking Thomas Jefferson OUT of the world history standards...''

Pretty amazing where that took us.

CG



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