"Texas curriculum debate spurs push for diversity" by April Castro, Associated Press | January 14, 2010
AUSTIN, Texas - Students, parents, and lawmakers lobbied yesterday for more diversity in Texas’s social studies curriculum, before the state Board Of Education adopts new classroom standards that will determine how history is taught for the next decade.
In more than six hours of public testimony, dozens of people took their chance to help shape the way millions of Texas schoolchildren learn topics from the Roman Empire to the entrepreneurial success of billionaire Bill Gates. The public hearing sets up a tentative vote today on the new standards. But, as usual in votes before the conservative-led board, the wide-reaching guidelines are full of potential ideological flashpoints.
Somehow I'm not a bit surprised.
Early quibbles over how much prominence to give civil rights leaders such as Cesar Chavez and the inclusion of Christmas seem to have been smoothed over. Gail Lowe, board chairwoman, said at the start of the hearing that Chavez and Christmas will not be removed from the standards....
Why is Christmas even an issue? The Menorah is not one!
The standards will be used to develop state tests and by textbook publishers who develop material for the nation based on Texas, one of the largest markets. State Representative Norma Chavez, a Democrat from El Paso, noted the lack of any Latinos in fifth-grade social studies lessons and asked the board to add Cesar Chavez; Texas’s first Mexican-American female legislator, Representative Irma Rangel; and longtime Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez to the list of required learning.
“We may not have landed on Plymouth Rock, but our contributions to the Southwest will not be marginalized,’’ Chavez said. Dozens of three-minute speeches echoed her concerns.
There are some folks who wish we never even did that.
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Yeah, I've noticed they are ONE GROUP that need NOT worry about "diversity" at all.
You know, it's odd when you look at it; the only ones not allowed to celebrate their ethnic identity in the United States it's white Christians. Then you are labeled some sort of racist extremist by the divisive, agenda-pushing Zionist MSM.
Please see: The Role of Feminism in the New World Order
