http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/sboe/e_attachments/2010/may/full_board/thur_3_ss_economics_a2.pdf
Hi Everyone;
This is to further compliment my original post at Teach Me to Be Uninformed.
From my inbox, comes this note:
Hi Anne,
I see under 113.2 Social Studies, Grade 8, b) knowledge and skills, 4 then B : "explain the roles played by significant individuals during the American Revolution, including Abigail Adams, John Adams, Wentworth Cheswill, Samuel Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, James Armistead, Benjamin Franklin, Bernardo de Gálvez, Crispus Attucks, King George III, Haym Salomon, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, Thomas Paine, and George Washington"
Note the name "Thomas Jefferson".
In your pursuit of the truth, make sure you go to factual sources and not Rachel Madow!"
Admittedly I do not know who Rachel Madow is.
The underlying, and perhaps most significant part of the note is a request to play fair. It is with that same spirit that I am posting this link to the "Text of Proposed Revisions" where the Texas school code is concerned.
Not being of legal mind, I am still quite flummoxed by the possibility that "something" stinky is happening in Texas. (It is a cruel wind that blows northward at times).
I have found one theme repeated a few times- It is reference to the "Texas Education Code - Section 29.907". And "Celebrate Freedom Week"
The link, and explanation to those activities, can be found here.
Granted, I am not through reading this entire code, but thus far, I am not seeing anything to get my panties in a bundle.
Please let me know what you think?
XOXO
Me
