Attempt to Add Climate Change and Oppression Into Texas Social Studies Fails
September 27, 2022 | Texas
Democrats on the Texas State Board of Education were blocked from adding climate change and painting Texas Rangers as oppressors in social studies lessons during a Sept. 26 meeting.
The special meeting held in Austin was billed as a public hearing on proposed social studies learning standards to meet SB3 requirements. The bill, which became law in 2021, prohibits teaching Critical Race Theory, a Marxist-based ideology, that labels people as oppressors or victims depending on their skin color or sexual identity.
Monday’s public hearing came on the heels of a Sept. 23 letter from the Texas Anti-definition League and Texas Freedom Network, organizations aligned with the ideology of the progressive left, chastising the board for delaying a “progressive” overhaul of the the state’s social studies standards.
Other groups backing the letter included: the American Civil Liberties Union, the Children’s Defense Fund, Equality Texas, Every Texas, Intercultural Development Research Association, and the Texas state Teachers Association…. (Excerpt from The Epoch Times)
