Texas adopts new Teaching Curriculum

There's been much controversy over Texas adopting a new social studies and history curriculum that dulls down the teaching of religious freedoms. The Texas State Board of Education will require students to learn that separation between church and state is not in the constitution, and are modernizing historical periods from B.C.E and C.E. They also agreed to replace Thomas Jefferson as an influential political philosopher in a world history class.

The board also strengthened requirements on teaching the Judeo-Christian influences on the nation's Founding Fathers and be required that the U.S. government be referred to as a "constitutional republic" rather than democratic. These guidelines will teach 4.8 million students for the next ten years. Along with those changes, they will also be used by textbook publishers who develop materials for other states as well.

This so-called education regiment is a scheme to teach children about the boards beliefs rather than educating them on actual history and enhancing the mind to prepare them for the real world. Teaching kids that the Separation between church and state is not in the constitution is hindering to their learning abilities by not teaching them history. The basis for separation between church and state is that the government may not impose religion on Americans.


When parents send their kids to school, they expect them to learn and grow, not to do just the opposite. People put a lot of faith in politicians and to people with authority because we believe most often that they want to do what's right.

The Texas Board of Education needs to think of the Texas students' future instead of their own. People and events in history made our country the way it is today and when young children aren't learning the history of their country then that also skews the ideology of the student. If one is not educated about history, then history will repeat itself.