Elementary school curriculum proposed this week would infuse new state reading and language arts lessons with teachings on the Bible, marking the latest push by Texas Republicans to put more Christianity in public schools.
The Texas Education Agency released the thousands of pages of educational materials this week. They have been made available for public viewing and feedback and, if approved by the State Board of Education in November, will be available for public schools to roll out in August of 2025. Districts will have the option of whether to use the materials, but will be incentivized to do so with up to $60 per student in additional funding.
Why can they opt to use them? How does this work down there can you just teach whatever you want? Isn’t there some kind of federal mandate on what needs to be taught and what can’t be taught? Or is it just every state in school can do whatever the heck it wants down there?
Yes, each state has its own board of education, and those bodies set the curriculum for each state. It’s absolutely insane.
Why is Texas in competition with Florida for being the worst state in the US?
Killing education first, so you have an endless flood of uneducated, poverty-stricken, gullible followers
I think Louisiana has taken up the Florida torch…
Don’t tempt Florida, they don’t need any inspiration
Inspiration is what the meth is for.
Genuinely looking forward to the Satanic Temple shenanigans over this one. A competing Satan infused curriculum would be fun
Fuck the satanic temple. It’s supposed to be better when fake satanists argue with extremist christians inside schools? Fuck that, because that’s fucking stupid.
Fight all religions, including stupid fucking satanists, stupid fucking noodle idiots, and stupid fucking jedi.
They are the fight.
You sound pretty mad at people you are agreeing with.
They’ve legitimately done a lot of good in the fight for freedom of/from religion and separation of church and state. I’m not sure what the argument is because even though I called it “shenanigans” their actions have had tangible effects in the fight against religious extremism so I would call it better at least then just letting the religious zealots have their way. There’s a great Stuff You Should Know podcast episode about them and some of the work they’ve done if your interested
The Satanic Temple is specifically only using religion and satanic themes to point out the double standards and combat them.
Religious institutions get all sorts of exemptions, get statues and displays on public grounds, get stuff posted in schools, etc, etc. So they said ok, then we are a religion also, so we do too.
Other than basically trolling religion to highlight the double standards their beliefs simply boil down to “be a decent human”.
I think it’s wonderful.
You clearly have done no research on the topic you’re complaining about. I would recommend reading up on TST before making such vocal incorrect assumptions. You just show you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Especially since the Satanic Temple doesn’t even believe in a literal Satan. The Satanic Temple beliefs are essentially just empathy, reason, and the pursuit of knowledge.
Yeah, they’re great! I remember first reading about them well probably over a decade ago. They do amazing work.
Time to insist on the cult of Dionysus getting a say.
That’d be a pretty wild elementary school…
Say what you want, but the school parties are lit.
In reality, these assholes might be all for it until the cult starts talking about that pesky consent thing.
