Apparently when the Texas board of education evaluates school text books the entire nation is affected. Texas and California are the biggest purchasers of text books and California is in economic crisis. That leaves Texas.
Text book publishers cater to their biggest customers thus having a significant impact on what all American school children learn.
According to Mike Huckabee, David Barton, Matt Staver and others there is a significant risk of American History being purged of such things as Christmas and the Fourth of July; and students will be taught to prepare for “global citizenship” instead of American citizenship. This is all being decided by a school board in Texas.
Two parents educate their own children and end up arrested for “child endangerment.”
Read the article:
A Montgomery County couple has been arrested on child endangerment charges for failing to register their children with the school district as they were home-schooled, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. [Read More]
I know folks are just going to quote the verses about “submitting to all those in authority;” but by what Biblical reasoning is the state taking sovereignty of education away from parents?
Education should be the domain mostly of parents, a little bit of church.
The state should acknowledge and yield to the parental right, authority, and responsibility to provide education for their children. Parents should not have to get any approval from the state for their eduction program.
On Thursday, June 15, 2006, [Brittany] McComb delivered her commencement address to over 400 fellow students, families and staff. However, believing that the district’s censorship of her speech amounted to a violation of her right to free speech, she attempted to deliver the original version of her remarks in which she shares her personal beliefs about the role that her Christian beliefs played in her success.
When school officials found her to be straying from the approved text, they unplugged her microphone, thus ending the address. Despite extensive jeers from the audience over the school officials’ actions, McComb was not permitted to finish giving her valedictory speech. [Read More]
Interesting that it was her mentioning of Jesus Christ that got the mic turned off. I suppose babbling about a vague “god” concept is ok, just don’t say “Jesus.”
I am encouraged by this girls bravery. May we see another million+ like her come through our schools!
I don’t know how the Supreme Court will decide on this case, but without a doubt we need young people to take a stand like Brittany McComb! Imagine if all Christian young people stood up for their beliefs and their rights (and responsibility) to testify about them?
I think the Secularist Silliness would not last long.
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