Citizen Kane

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This is not about Texas

03/03/10 · 3:52 pm :: posted by citizenkane     

There was an article in the New York Times Magazine on 2/14 that  -- if you are a First Amendment true believer -- should have stood your hair on end.

It deals with the effort by some members of the Texas Board of Education to infuse their statewide public school system's History & Science curricula with a Fundamentalist religious doctrine.

Why should Cape Codders care? Because Texas has more pupils and spends more on education than any other state. Consequently, major textbook publishers take care to reflect the TBOE's standards across their booklists, thereby potentially infecting virtually every other school district in the country with a religion-driven agenda that may well be anathema to unsuspecting parents, nationwide.

Even if you are personally sympathetic to Fundamentalism, you should nevertheless be uncomfortable with such egregious subversion of the 1st Amendment. The contention by the Board's supporters that this is what the Founders intended is so labyrinthine in its rationale as to defy objective refutation.

The article is available on line here.

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Arthur Kane is a born and bred New Yorker transplanted to Cape Cod. Media careerist: CBS News, CBS Sports, CBS International, PBS, and Executive Director, International Emmy Awards. Now free-lance copywriter-editor, DBA WordCrafters in Barnstable.

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