2nd in Continuing Series: New Book documents how Texas high school history students preparing for college… reject the indoctrination of academia
By Bill Ames
This article is the introduction to the left’s overall war on America’s traditional values & culture. It’s a tale of how this larger 
war relates to the left’s War on History in Texas’ public schools.
war relates to the left’s War on History in Texas’ public schools.
Many of us have heard the story about the religious, politically conservative parents who brought up their daughter to love God and America. Then she goes off to college. After just one semester, she comes home and announces that she hates both.
Thanks to conservative members of the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE), supported by hundreds of mainstream Texans, Texas high school graduates will be better equipped to reject the indoctrination agenda of leftist college professors.
The reason: In 2010, the SBOE created a balanced social studies standards framework.
The battle fought to develop these standards is well documented in my new book, TEXAS TROUNCES THE LEFT’S WAR ON HISTORY.
The SBOE standards teach our students that America’s good far outweighs her bad, that our Founding Principles, our Judeo-Christian heritage, our strong roots in Western Civilization, our work ethic, and our free market economy are the basis for 200-plus years of America’s greatness and leadership in the world.
These principles will be the foundation for teaching U.S. history in Texas’ public schools for the next ten years.
Aiieee! It hurts; it hurts so bad!
ReplyDeleteSupported by hundreds of Texans? Quite an uprising.
ReplyDeleteIf we can airlift the people of Austin out of there, I say let them secede.
ReplyDeleteI know some sane people in Marfa, too, so at least send them some decent capers and wine and a copy of the New Yorker with a cargo drop.
ReplyDeleteThe shitkickers have spoken.
ReplyDeleteOn behalf of the sane people in Texas ... I'm so, so sorry.
ReplyDeleteRemember when trying to base one's knowledge on actual facts was championed?
ReplyDeleteFunny, seems to have been around the time most of these "turn the clock back" types claim they want to restore.
And when someone at university - for those who make it that far - tries to teach them respect for actual data, that will count as 'indoctrination by academia' I guess ...
ReplyDeleteLet's see. . .so rigid indoctrination at home for 18 years has been known to result in immediate, wholesale rebellion the moment the young adult gains a modicum of freedom. And rigid indoctrination at both home and school is supposed to result in wholesale embrace of said doctrine? Methinks there is something wrong with this picture.
ReplyDeleteHow about presenting kids with a system of thinking well-thought out, flexible, and, yes, evidence-based enough (or at least one that acknowledges the line between evidence-based knowledge and other modes of conceptualizing reality, such as faith) that it will actually stand the test of contact with ideas outside the hermetically-sealed echo-chamber of ideas they're seeking to construct?
"Let's see. . .so rigid indoctrination at home for 18 years has been known to result in immediate, wholesale rebellion the moment the young adult gains a modicum of freedom. "
DeleteAccording to a well-worn urban myth, yes. Of course, had that same student's room-mate committed suicide, according to the same knowledge source, she would have sailed through with straight A's.
I'm off to collect pull tabs for poor little Timmy's wheelchair.
Also: coincidence that well-educated people tend to be Democrats? I don't think so.
ReplyDeleteMany of us have heard the story about the religious, politically conservative parents who brought up their daughter to love God and America. Then she goes off to college. After just one semester, she comes home and announces that she hates both.
ReplyDeleteI bet she comes home using the birth control pill too.