The BBC News website reports the adoption of a right wing christian syllabus in Texas (Texas schools to get controversial syllabus). The article lists a bunch revisions to US history, but not the creationism issue.
Students in Texas will now be taught the benefits of US free-market economics and how government taxation can harm economic progress.
They will study how American ideals benefit the world but organisations such as the UN could be a threat to personal freedom.
And Thomas Jefferson has been dropped from a list of enlightenment thinkers in the world-history curriculum, despite being one of the Founding Fathers who is credited with developing the idea that church and state should be separate.
The doctrine has become a cornerstone of US government, but some religious groups and some members of the Texas Education Board disagree, our correspondent says.
The board, which is dominated by Christian conservatives, voted nine-to-five in favour of adopting the new curriculum for both primary and secondary schools.
No comments
Comments feed for this article
Trackback link: http://robertsaunders.org.uk/wordpress/2010/05/22/weep-texas-weep/trackback/