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TexasTowelie

(116,493 posts)
Mon Aug 1, 2022, 02:39 AM Aug 2022

State to look at changes to Texas history curriculum

The Texas Board of Education next month will discuss eliminating a yearlong Texas history course for elementary students by 2025.

The board is set to meet in special session at 8 a.m. Monday, Aug. 1, when they will discuss overhauling school standards for social studies courses, which includes removing Texas history from the fourth grade curriculum.

Instead, students in kindergarten though second grade would discuss themes in Texas, U.S. and world history.

Students in third though fifth grade would focus on world history from the end of the Stone Age — around 5000 BC — to Christopher Columbus’ voyages — around 1500.

Read more: https://www.dailysentinel.com/social_media/article_e6a4b79a-8e3c-5b2d-902e-d215c2785ee2.html
(Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel)

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State to look at changes to Texas history curriculum (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2022 OP
how conveeeeeeeeeeeeenient Skittles Aug 2022 #1
ok so here's what's unlikely to be taught in Texas history vlyons Aug 2022 #2
That's interesting.... LeftInTX Aug 2022 #3

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
2. ok so here's what's unlikely to be taught in Texas history
Mon Aug 1, 2022, 03:56 AM
Aug 2022

1. Jim Bowie sat in Fredonia (now Nacadoches) and forged land deeds signed by the king of Spain to sell to yankees in the North

2. When the first Americans from Al, Tenn, KY, LA etc arrived to settle in texas, it was part of Mexico. Mexico freed slaves in 1825. The white slave owners in Texas didn't want to liberate their slaves. Ergo a revolt to make Texas an independent slavery republic.

LeftInTX

(29,836 posts)
3. That's interesting....
Mon Aug 1, 2022, 12:06 PM
Aug 2022

You know the crazies are gonna come and protest...

I think removing the year-long, fourth grade Texas indoctrination is a good thing. I'm not sure if it will happen.

But who knows what else they will discuss...


Or will they do this? Create K-5 textbooks which the rest of the nation will adopt in order to "Texify" the rest of the country...(Since they are gonna removed 4th grade TX History, it will be integrated with the rest of the courses)

Stay tuned...

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