Sunday, May 23, 2010

TSBOE Member Opens Debate on New Social Studies Standards with a Politically Divisive Prayer

This whole debate was fucked from the beginning.

"Even before the Texas State Board of Education took up its expected debate today over what students will learn about separation about church and state in their social studies classrooms, board member Cynthia Dunbar, R-Richmond, made her position clear. She offered the board’s opening prayer this morning and removed any doubt about what she and other far-right board members want students to learn: America’s laws and government should be based on the Christian Bible." ARTICLE