Texas lawmakers are putting educators on the hot seat after public school curriculum surfaced that promoted Islam and socialism while deconstructing American values and patriotism.
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School children were exposed to lessons that labeled the Boston Tea Party an act of terrorism. They were also instructed to create flags for socialist and communist countries. And they were also given in-depth lessons in the Islamic faith that included classroom readings from the Koran.

“They are indoctrinating our children to hate America,” said Janice VanCleave, of Texas Education Patriots. “Texans are embarrassed about this.”

VanCleave’s organization launched an investigation that exposed CSCOPE – an electronic curriculum system that provides online lesson plans for teachers. The curriculum is used in 80 percent of the state’s school districts.


For us, CSCOPE is a lifesaver,” Dina Webb, director of curriculum in Lackland, told the San Antonio Express. “We don’t mandate how teachers use it and certainly, as a military district, wouldn’t teach anything anti-American. But we certainly don’t have the money or staff to be able to write new curriculum every time the state standards change.”
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Texas State Sen. Larry Taylor said he was especially disturbed by lessons that tried to equate the Boston Tea Party to the 9-11 terrorists.

“They actually referred to it as a terrorist act,” he told Fox News. “Throwing tea into the harbor is nowhere near a terrorist act. To have our kids even thinking that…”

Taylor called the curriculum anti-American – and said it put the Founding Fathers on the same footing as modern-day terrorists.

http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top...rorist-act.html

What I would like to know is except for expressing outrage about it, what are their plans to dump the program? This is becoming scary when our kids are taught in this manner.

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What I would like to know is except for expressing outrage about it, what are their plans to dump the program? This is becoming scary when our kids are taught in this manner.

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This is an odd story. I would like to actually see the curriculum before deciding if they're just hyperventilating or if it's a real problem. How do we see CSCOPE?

That's pretty clear, justme. Not much room for misinterpretation.

Update:

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Senator Dan Patrick, in coordination with the Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative (TESCCC), announce significant changes to the CSCOPE curriculum management system. The TESCCC has worked with Senator Patrick, chairman of the Senate Education Committee, and the State Board of Education (SBOE), to address concerns raised at a recent committee hearing on the CSCOPE system. The two parties have agreed to several immediate as well as forthcoming changes.

Full text here (.pdf): http://www.cscope.us/PR_CSCOPE_Announcement.pdf

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