The 15-member board dominated by conservative Republicans is expected to reject calls for a delay and move forward on establishing new standards for textbooks and teaching history, economics and other civics classes that will take effect in August, 2011.
The new standards call for a greater focus on the Biblical and Christian traditions of the founding fathers. It also calls for the teaching of free market principles, how government taxation and regulation can serve as restrictions to private enterprise [isn't that obvious?], and emphasizes the achievements of Republican leaders, including former President Ronald Reagan [the defeat of Communism was a fairly big deal, after all] and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
The new curriculum also states that the system of the U.S. government be called a "Constitutional Republic" rather than a "Democratic society." Additionally, it inserts a "Celebrate Freedom Week" during which Texas students will study the importance of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
And this is controversial? Because liberals have succeeded so remarkably in their revisionist history crusade of the past forty years, any motion to undo the knot is lambasted as controversial.
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