“Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change” by James McKinley, Jr.; The New York Times; 3/12/2010.
Comment: Because of its size, Texas wields a disproportionately large influence over school curricula. The Texas Board of Education’s decision to delete textbook references to Thomas Jefferson in favor of mention of Thomas Aquinas and Jean Calvin will affect far more than the unfortunate pupils of “Baja Oklahoma!”
After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers’ commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light. The vote was 10 to 5 along party lines, with all the Republicans on the board voting for it.
The board, whose members are elected, has influence beyond Texas because the state is one of the largest buyers of textbooks. . . .
Even the course on world history did not escape the board’s scalpel.
Cynthia Dunbar, a lawyer from Richmond who is a strict constitutionalist and thinks the nation was founded on Christian beliefs, managed to cut Thomas Jefferson from a list of figures whose writings inspired revolutions in the late 18th century and 19th century, replacing him with St. Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and William Blackstone. (Jefferson is not well liked among conservatives on the board because he coined the term “separation between church and state.”)
“The Enlightenment was not the only philosophy on which these revolutions were based,” Ms. Dunbar said.






Having just completed a fairly detailed and thoroughly researched historical study entitled “The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson,” I am struck by several glaring areas for which I cannot help but shudder in fear for the days ahead. First, Jefferson’s philosophy and writings (and the Jeffersonians themselves) are actually saturated with the omnipresent importance of God. Organized religion however, was to Jefferson, like a King or a Corporation– i.e a vehicle for the tyranny of mankind.
Speaking of tyrannies over mankind, I am disturbed by how ignorant so many Americans are about America. The time to recognize the death of the American Republic and it’s “dream” is omnipresent. I’d bet my home that not 1 of those 10 in favor read Jefferson’s voluminous materials.
So...this is America. We will reduce ourselves to ignorant serfs while waving around Heritage Foundation copies of the “Declaration of Independence,” watch tea parties abound who couldn’t tell you what the Boston Tea party was protesting, meanwhile making Anti-Obama/I heart Glenn Beck signs and championing corporate deregulation...and what better agitprop to distract the children from the biggest corporate crime in history against the U.S. (and the world) by changing the Sex Education curriculum to focus on teaching students the proper way to perform fellatio on the Capitalist phallus...
...how long before our calendars have an official day of the apocalypse marked(with whatever comes after blank as their brains...)
Huh, so it turns out college is a communist conspiracy:
I think Ricky might be try to get some of that sweet sweet Thiel scratch (ok, probably not, but who knows).