Texas Scorecard by Sydnie Henry August 22, 2022
Activist warns Texas Board of Education is “under siege.” “You now basically have a week to take action to prevent this from going down,” warns activist Jaco Booyens.
The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE), which sets the state standards for public education, is deciding on a proposed chronological framework and new Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)—standards for curriculum that guide what students are expected to know and understand—for social studies.
Per the new chronological framework that the SBOE is considering implementing, instruction for K-8 will radically change, and many parents and educators across the state are concerned with the direction of the new TEKS.
This new framework and TEKS will be in place for the next 12 years if accepted by the SBOE.
According to Booyens, “They’ve [SBOE] turned a corner on the quarter-mile, and they are sprinting to the finish line to fundamentally change your children and this nation before the next election.”
Additionally, Booyens says the goal of this new framework and TEKS is to “create global citizens.”
“Not Texas citizens, not proud Americans,” he added, but “well-abiding subjects of the global citizen program.”
It begins in kindergarten.
“They’re breaking the nuclear family. … What does that mean? They’re teaching that the family does not raise the child—yes, teaching this in kindergarten—the community raises the child, and after the community, it’s the state’s job to raise the child, and then the federal government,” said Booyens.
More:
https://texasscorecard.com/state/state-board-of-education-to-vote-on-radical-social-studies-changes-for-k-8/
