College students in taxpayer-funded colleges throughout Texas will quickly be studying that George Washington was a terrorist and that Christian missionaries allegedly kidnapped Native Individuals and transformed them to Christianity.
Julie Pickren, a Republican member of the State Board of Schooling, mentioned the teachings had been included in an Ethnic Research course for prime colleges.
Pickren referred to as it a tragic day for Texas.
What’s much more infuriating is that the Republicans on the State Board of Schooling maintain a 10-5 majority. Nonetheless, 4 Republicans joined Democrats to cross the curriculum.
She says the supplies confer with our first president and Founding Father as a “terrorist chief.” American troops throughout the Revolutionary Conflict had been deemed to even be terrorists.
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Pickren alerted her followers on social media that the course teaches that “Christian missionaries kidnapped Indian kids and despatched them to re-education camps to develop into Individuals and Christians.” The teachings additionally allege that “Congress paid U.S. troopers to scalp Indians.”
The State Board of Schooling suspended board guidelines to approve of the far-leftist propaganda. The general public was not notified and subsequently couldn’t object.
Board member Brandon Corridor additionally voted in opposition to what he referred to as the “woke un-American indoctrination course.”
“This course is rotten to the core with CRT, anti-American themes, and historic fallacies,” he wrote on Fb. “It makes an attempt to show college students into woke activists by instructing them that land acknowledgements are an applicable solution to honor those that lived on the land in occasions previous. Which occasions? Which individuals? How far again can we go? Supporters of this course don’t know or care. The purpose is indoctrination, not instructing historical past.”
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