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We are extremely concerned that school children no longer learn about or respect our nation’s true history. Who are the members of SBOE that are so anxious to hijack our traditional values? How did they get to positions of authority over our Texas textbooks? How can we combat this sinister situation?

To show disrespect to one’s country is an extreme in lowest disrespect of the freedoms we enjoy.
We invite all who denigrate our country to depart for the country they would rather live in.

A J and Joan Seifert

It seems every day we wake up to yet another liberal attempt to change history to fit their warped sense of superiority and their place in Shangrila.

That Garland, Texas mother of three needs to infect all of us with her patriotic passion. She’s walking the walk and not just talking the talk.

All of our fights against liberalism really begin in elementary school. They want to brain-wash our children’s minds. Why are the liberal educators so vehemently against home-schooling? One of the main reasons is that they are losing control. Many of my friends home-school their children and they have explained to me how well developed and elaborate their network and curriculum are. But home schooling isn’t for everybody. We Christians need to be salt and light to the world and especially in the public school arena. We all know what has happened to prayer and Christianity in the public school system. I’ve watched this country decay in my lifetime.

This site focuses quite a bit on taking our government back. We need to wrestle our education system away from the liberals, socialists and communists as well. They’ve controlled the education system since the 60’s in most of this country.

The destruction of our country through our schools has been happening for almost a century, if not more. I have been doing quite a bit of research on the “architects” of our education system…people like John Dewey. What I have discovered is FRIGHTENING!

The progressives infiltrated the teachers’ colleges at the elite schools, and replicated their curriculums all across the country. They begin by brainwashing the teachers. The American History Association was founded and funded by the likes of the Guggenheim, Carnegie, and Ford foundations. The goal of these “elite” entities is to TRANSFORM OUR COUNTRY THROUGH THE EDUCATION SYSTEM.

Then there is the DOE, the NEA, and the unions. Our only hope is to return educational control to the local school systems, as evidenced by what the SBOE scoundrels are doing!

My youngest child is a 7th grader in public school. I honestly don’t think he will be in PS for much longer. I just can’t stand by and waste his educational years on substandard and even dangerous ideologies! I want to fight this battle, but I also want my child to get REAL history. I refuse to give the progressives power and influence over MY child!

I am facing a similar dilema with my local school district. My 9th grader is taking World Geography as part of the curriculum. However, while studying regions, the curriculum also includes a study on the predominent religion. A basic,’ This is the religion of this area’ I believe would be sufficient. The text however, goes into a “goody, goody” presentation of different religions that actually sound like they want the children to try them out. A lot of what is being taught is not even factual, it is what they want you to think the religion is. The big concept is that everything is okay. What ever happened to teaching Geography. I thought that was the study of the earth.

I am the mother of five children. Over the past two years I have been studying what is happening in our government/country. This inevitably led me to a discovery of what atrocities are occurring in our public education system. We made the decision to start home schooling our oldest child, rather than send him on to 6th grade public education. We have had a FANTASTIC experience!!! The curriculum we are using for history uses text and sources written from the time period we are studying, NOT modern interpretations of what happened “back then.”

Part of the curriculum is an online video class my son watches. Two weeks ago the teacher taught a lesson about George Washington and the French and Indian War with factual historical accounts. Then he brought out six of the most popular textbooks currently being used in public school. He then taught the class what each of those texts had to say about the lesson he had just taught… it was pitiful!!! Several of them did not even mention Washington’s name. He explained how our society has distanced itself from factual history, replaced it with false and degrading information and that very few youth of our day know anything about the great men of American History.

This was a powerful lesson for my son, but what really drove it home was a dinner conversation one week later. Our daughter (4th grade, still in public school, but not for long) started talking about what she had learned about Columbus in school. She started out by saying… “I used to think Columbus was a good person. But after I learned more about him, I don’t like him any more!” We were all somewhat shocked by this statement! So I asked her to tell us what she had learned. She began to retell a FICTIONAL story they had read in class, about a young boy who had been taken into slavery by Columbus, recounting his terrible treatment and sorrow at being taken from his family and country. At first I was watching my daughter then I shifted my gaze to my son who had recently finished studying Columbus in his home school curriculum.

I watched as his eyes grew bigger and bigger as she explained the reasons for her opinions. Several times I asked her if she was recounting a story of fact or fiction, every time she answered that she knew the story was a fictional account because they did not have any factual accounts about these particular ideas.

Finally my sons eyes met my gaze and he looked at me with a mixture of disgust and disappointment. NOT ABOUT COLUMBUS, about the sorry state of our educational system!!!

In addition to this I have become increasingly amazed at the lack of proficiency of our youth in the BASICS, reading and arithmetic. Last year my daughter got a PERFECT SCORE on the Math portion of the 3rd grade TAKS test. It was no surprise to me since she had spent literally HOURS on a weekly basis doing TAKS practice tests for her homework, THE ENTIRE YEAR!!! So what am I complaining about? I should be delighted that my daughter could ACE the TAKS!!! Right? WRONG!!!

The week after the TAKS test was completed, her teacher sent home a note asking parents to work with their student to LEARN their multiplication tables before the end of the year!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS WAS ONE MONTH BEFORE THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR!!! They were expecting these kids to become PROFICIENT in the multiplication tables 0-12 in less than one month! They even offered an incentive to motivate the students! The last week of school they would have an ice cream party and the children would get sundae toppings based on the number of multiplication groups they had mastered!

I felt like I had been betrayed!!! I thought my daughter had spent the entire year learning how to do math! I was deceived, she had not learned math… she had learned how to take a stupid test!!!! I realized that if I wanted my children to learn their math facts, it would not be because they spent a portion of their SEVEN HOUR SCHOOL DAY learning them, it would only happen if I took time out of their one hour of play time after school (between homework, dinner and bedtime routine, there is often less than one hour left for play, much less doing what I am paying the school to do for my child!!!)

It is high time we get involved and take control of our education system again!!! Otherwise anyone who has any interest in their child’s education will be forced to home school or enroll in private education!

Lisa, I have read all the literature that you mentioned. The elitists and John Dewey were in collaboration to set up what they hoped would be an oligarchy. They were the rulers and they would keep us dumbed-down enough to be their worker ants. It’s frightening what John Dewey believed and he is dubbed “the father of our educational system.” I wish all were required to read who he really was and what he postulated. He sounded like a Marxist to me when I read what he believed.

One thing I’ve noticed in life is that when people start new movements, are bitter and have a chip on their shoulders, it usually begins with them having major disagreements with Christianity or religion; e.g. Karl Marx, Mohammed, John Smith, Charles T. Russell.

I’m a single parent and when I get my boys, I have to deprogram them from the “political correct” garbage that they are learning in school. The big push in public school is teaching our children the following: “think green”, believe in evolution, to hate what the European “white” man did to this continent, alternate lifestyles and sex education. I’m at the school taking with teachers as much as I can be. I’ve had major disagreements with teachers and a principal.

I agree with the above synapsis. My husband taught 7th gradesocial studies. He retired last year because the principal harassed him daily for teaching Texas history and the TEKS. The principal complained that he taught too much of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It is pretty sad how the liberals have tried to re-write history, and want to brainwash our children into belileving all their hogwash!

Wow–I’ve just read the attached wonderful testimony from a mother to the SBOE, as well as the several comments here from parents. I salute each and every one of you for your informed, articulate statements, as well as your passion for giving your children an accurate, rigorous education.

I was also one of the people testifying at the November 18 SBOE meeting. Our group of about 20 speakers had waited faithfully all day, and finally had our moment around 9:30 that night. Most of us spoke out AGAINST the proposed social studies changes that would remove key founding figures and patriotic holidays from the curriculum, portray the U.S. as an “imperialist” nation, attempt to mold students into “global citizens” with global allegiances and identity, denigrate the free-market capitalist system, and add forced quotas of minority figures for study.

After I made comments in my testimony, pointing out how offensive the “global citizenship” issue is to so many Texans, SBOE rep. Mavis Knight questioned me with considerable “gusto”. She ranted rather simplistically that our students will not be able to compete in a global economy if we don’t teach them about other cultures. I had testified that we are particularly concerned that our current federal administration is pushing for the U.S. to sign international treaties that could damage our economic system, put us under international law, and replace our dollar with international currency. I responded to her: “I believe we can LEARN about other countries without sacrificing our unique identity as American citizens. We parents and grandparents are not interested in producing vaguely ‘multicultural’ children. We ARE Americans!”

I had also testified that our country’s founding documents are very clearly postulated on the work of John Locke and William Blackstone–who in turn based their philosophy of government and law on the Bible. Indeed, our entire legal system stands on Judeo-Christian principles. We know that this fact is being rabidly challenged every day by groups in Texas and nationwide. “Truth and founding principles” are certainly the core of this battle over social studies, as the groups who hate the truth are determined to blur the founding principles and slander the patriots who fought to shape our unique nation.

I fervently hope that each person writing the above comments in this section will register to testify in January. We desperately need your informed voices, as we know that angry, far-left groups such as the Texas Freedom Network and (sadly) many cynical classroom teachers are determined to fight the conservatives on our SBOE who represent your views and mine. Our children and grandchildren are the innocent pawns in this ferocious spiritual battle.