Texas Senate Votes to Remove Required Lessons on Civil Rights

[Nevilledog]

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https://news.bloomberglaw.com/social-justice/texas-senate-votes-to-remove-required-lessons-on-civil-rights

The Texas Senate on Friday passed legislation that would end requirements that public schools include writings on women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement in social studies classes.

Among the figures whose works would be dropped: Susan B. Anthony, Cesar Chavez, and Martin Luther King Jr., whose “I Have a Dream"speech and “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” would no longer make the curriculum cut.

The bill (S.B. 3), which was passed on a vote of 18 to 4, now is stalled because the House can’t achieve a quorum while a breakaway group of Democrats is out of the state. The special session is set to end on Aug. 6.

It would remove more than two dozen teaching requirements from a new law (H.B 3979) that bars the teaching of critical race theory, an academic framework exploring racism’s shaping of the country.

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[MagickMuffin]

1. Texas republicons just get it over with and rebrand yourselves the White Suprematist Party

No need to hide it anymore. Be proud of your white heritage. You're already heading in that direction.

[NCDem47]

4. Basically...

White, straight, Christian males rule the world. That is what is "normal" and expected. Case closed.

[-misanthroptimist]

2. "They'll have to vote for us if we keep them as ignorant as we are!"

Republican motto.

[Tree Lady]

3. My daughter in San Antonio just said

Article in her paper said schools there are going to refuse to change and still educate on civil rights, said they have support from large school unions around usa.

[BGBD]

5. I said this in another thread.....

But this hard right-wing swing Republicans are taking will backfire on them. States Luke Texas, North Carolina, Arizona, and Georgia are going to flip more and more blue. Crazy legislation like this will speed that up.

[tableturner]

7. Won't backfire if GOP can nullify Democrats' vote tabulation victories!

Just a reminder......

[ananda]

6. This is because nazi Reeps plan to do away with ALL

civil and human rights in America.

[Igel]

10. Text of SB 3 as introduced.

No idea if it was amended.

https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/871/billtext/pdf/SB00003I.pdf#navpanes=0


On second thought, I'm not actually sure if SB 3 alters what's currently required by the SBOE.

https://elpasomatters.org/2021/07/12/texas-lawmakers-seek-to-further-restrict-critical-race-theory-in-special-legislative-session/

The bill strikes out provisions House Democrats added to HB 3979 by Rep. Steve Toth, R-The Woodlands — which Abbott signed into law last month — that sought to diversify the historical figures and events students learn about, including the Chicano movement; the women’s and civil rights movements; Native American history; and the history of white supremacy, including slavery, and “the ways in which it is morally wrong.”

It sounds (just from the El Paso Matters link) that what's struck in SB 3 is just what was compromise language added to a House bill in May of this year, but I have maybe 1% confidence that's the case. Don't teach social studies during the school year and, you know, I was too busy dealing with the end of school and getting all my seniors' ducks lined up in a row so they (mostly) graduated to even notice what was happening in Austin. Sounds like a petulant "we tried to be nice, you took your ball home anyway, so there!"

In any event, none of this would take effect for a while and in the interim there'll be another (in)glorious regular session of the Texas state legislature. SBOE just revised the science standards the past school year, and I think they revised the social studies standards a year or two before that. It'll take a while to issue a proclamation to revise standards, assemble committees, have them do the revising, first reading, public comment, second reading, adoption ...

[Takket]

11. how to ensure you raise an ignoarant and racist electorate: Undermine public education

This is how rethugs get power, and hold onto it. It isn't an accident that they are always attacking academia.

[Midnight Writer]

12. Cancel Culture! Rewriting History!

Too bad the Left doesn't have a media operation to shine a light on these shenanigans.

[11 Bravo]

13. Because of course they did!

[struggle4progress]

15. Everything you need to know about Texas history:

1. Jesus born in Palestine Texas; gives bible to James King
2. Washington and his vice-president Lincoln retake Ronald Reagan, other major airports from British
3. Giuiliani sends Davie Crockett to defend Alamo Rent-a-car!
4. State constitutional amendment requires Apache to speak "English only" here in our country
5. Governor begins groundbreaking "Freedom to Freeze" initiative

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. So they're going to bring back "The lost cause" propaganda?