Comments on: ‘Culture Wars’ Still Disruptive in Texas

By: Cal Jennings

Cal Jennings — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:16:34 +0000

The Christian Right nonsense has set Texas back sixty years. Abstinence hasn’t worked since the beginning of time. Most of the people fighting against sex education were conceived in the back seat of a car out of wedlock. The hypocrisy and ignorance in our great state seems to have become rampant.

By: Mary Hunt

Mary Hunt — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:27:59 +0000

Thank you for fighting the good fight for education nationwide. Texas curriculum dominates the text book providers and all state buy from them…so you are not just fighting for Texas.

By: TFN

TFN — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:39:34 +0000

Don’t push it. All comments are moderated, regardless of the content or the poster. We get to it when we can. But you are welcome not to return. We won’t miss you.

By: Steppenwolfe

Steppenwolfe — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:32:13 +0000

“Texas Freedom Network.

A Mainstream Voice to Counter the Religious Right.”

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The Hypocrisy of the Democrats !!!

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By: Steppenwolfe

Steppenwolfe — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:27:00 +0000

“Your comment is awaiting moderation. ”

It figures, the Democrats don’t want your opinion unless they approve of it! This site is a waste of time. Not a place for open discussion from voters.

By: Steppenwolfe

Steppenwolfe — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:23:10 +0000

” Statistics show that a Texas teen still gets pregnant every 10 minutes. ”

When stats like this are quoted there is usually no link to a source because the stats are most likely made up to suit the writer’s convenience.

I believe religion has no place in the public education system just as left wing sensationalism and left wing racial preferencing has no place in the public education system.

The Texas Democratic Party is an unorganized group of political opportunists who sit around in discussion groups which have no contact with and shun involvement of the people. Very few of these opportunists run as candidates or have any initiative to take any action to improve the quality of like for Texas citizens or to stand up for individual rights and freedom.

By: Political Psychologist

Political Psychologist — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:52:25 +0000

It is high time the legislature either require that any member of the SBOE be credentialed by an accredited institution – NOT a religious institution, nor an institution of opinion – in the subjects for which he or she is responsible for the text book approval, or eliminate the SBOE altogether. How long until the lagging in science and technology becomes an issue of national security? How much longer can America go with such a deplorable state of non-education in history and civics? And now we have people trying to worsen the state of social studies and American history education?

By: Frances Schwartzwakd

Frances Schwartzwakd — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:24:07 +0000

Kathy Miller’s op ed piece was excellent. Having members of the SBOE appointed by a partisan ANYBODY is a recipe for further culture wars that ignore science and history. The Pilgrims came to get a better life? African tribes came to the US because they were unhappy with life in Africa during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries? Jesus was a Palestinian? Moses SAID he talked with God? Jesus SAID he
was the son of God? Mohammed TALKED to Allah?
And I can’t go outside my house on ozone alert days, but it’s all junk science….

By: Rocket Mike

Rocket Mike — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:01:19 +0000

Beverly, Texas has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the nation. Having near the lowest rate in Texas doesn’t tell us much. Local choice in Texas has given us a lot of pregnant teenagers, more per capita than all but two other states the last time I checked. You don’t give any reason why Comal County would have a lower rate than all the other Texas counties that teach the same notably failure prone abstinence-only sex education. Maybe the girls are sneaking off to clinics in San Antonio or Austin and are not getting counted in Comal County. All I see in your post are mindless non sequiturs similar to those coming from the regressive religionists on the SBOE.

I agree that 39% Rick would probably make choices for TSBOE members that are as bad as Don McLeroy was for SBOE chairman. I think that non-partisan SBOE elections would make the voters think about for whom they are voting, and the regressive religionists would not be returned to office because of straight-ticket voting.

By: PHarvey

PHarvey — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:31:20 +0000

Beverly, there is nothing wrong with having an elected SBOE. However, they are laymen who are overiding expert opinion and concensus only because of their religious and ideological beliefs. Not because of any basis in fact.

They are not experts in Language Arts, Science, or History and Government. Yet they simply dismiss the opinions of teachers and other professionals out of hand. If the facts aren’t in line with their ideology, they simply ignore the facts or simply elect not to teach them.

The result is a biased and poor curiculum.

Their decisions over language arts means a lot of Hispanic kids will continue to struggle with english.

Their decisions over science means that kids will think that fundamental concepts in science such as evolution and the age of the universe are not sound and are in doubt when actually they are the most verified and fundamental concepts in all of science. Biology makes no sense whatsoever except when explained by evolution.

And the SBOE has telegraphed their intentions to rewrite history from the perspective of extreme Christian Fundamentalism no matter what the expert historians and legal experts say.

Elected politicians with agendas should not be allowed to pass judgement on academic expert conclusions. The result is the mess we currently have on the Texas SBOE.