Comments on: Even David Barton's Allies Have to Clarify His Statements https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/03/11/even-david-bartons-allies-have-to-clarify-his-statements/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Wed, 30 May 2018 21:46:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Warren https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/03/11/even-david-bartons-allies-have-to-clarify-his-statements/#comment-94602 Wed, 30 May 2018 21:46:15 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=14149#comment-94602 In reply to Leo FOLSE.

Leo – I agree that the curriculum should be open to inspection. What I am sure about yet is the truthfulness of the claim that it is a secret. I have read some information that leads me to think otherwise, but I am not ready to say one way or the other yet.

]]> By: Tom Van Dyke https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/03/11/even-david-bartons-allies-have-to-clarify-his-statements/#comment-85483 Wed, 30 May 2018 18:54:44 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=14149#comment-85483 I got through about half of the new TEKS standards one afternoon and liked it very much. It indeed shows what was stricken out and what replaced it.
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=3643
The left-wing Texas Freedom Network’s breathless reporting during the debates was mostly all anyone heard about it. The right wing proposed a bunch of stupid stuff that wasn’t approved, the lefties had their own multi-culti bent, but in the end I liked the shift of emphasis from the previous curriculum from sociology to history and good citizenship.
Mileage will vary but if you look at the link and the actual changes that made it through the process, you see why the TFN and the NYT etc., after fanning up quite a bit of hysteria, let the whole thing quietly die.
As far as I can gather, C-SCOPE is the edu establishment trying to get around the new standards to re-establish its own left-wing hegemony over Texas education. if stuff like this is true
http://counterjihadreport.com/tag/cscope/
That the edu-establishment has already put its own left-wing stamp back on the curriculum in 80%$ of Texas schools, Barton indeed has something righteous to cry about.
However, given Barton’s track record, I won’t believe a word until I check it out myself..
Agreed. But he’s often birddogging something real, although he exaggerates, he does not fabricate from whole cloth. In this case, if he’s wrong about smelling a skunk, it doesn’t mean he’s not correctly smelling a rat.

]]> By: ken https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/03/11/even-david-bartons-allies-have-to-clarify-his-statements/#comment-85474 Wed, 30 May 2018 18:54:43 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=14149#comment-85474 I would doubt that the curriculum is being made “in secret.” I would bet instead that, due to the revelations about his qualifications as a “historian”, Barton has simply been removed from the process. So now he is trying to re-insert himself by stirring up a panic.

]]> By: Tom Van Dyke https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/03/11/even-david-bartons-allies-have-to-clarify-his-statements/#comment-55262 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:42:06 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=14149#comment-55262 I got through about half of the new TEKS standards one afternoon and liked it very much. It indeed shows what was stricken out and what replaced it.
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=3643
The left-wing Texas Freedom Network’s breathless reporting during the debates was mostly all anyone heard about it. The right wing proposed a bunch of stupid stuff that wasn’t approved, the lefties had their own multi-culti bent, but in the end I liked the shift of emphasis from the previous curriculum from sociology to history and good citizenship.
Mileage will vary but if you look at the link and the actual changes that made it through the process, you see why the TFN and the NYT etc., after fanning up quite a bit of hysteria, let the whole thing quietly die.
As far as I can gather, C-SCOPE is the edu establishment trying to get around the new standards to re-establish its own left-wing hegemony over Texas education. if stuff like this is true
http://counterjihadreport.com/tag/cscope/
That the edu-establishment has already put its own left-wing stamp back on the curriculum in 80%$ of Texas schools, Barton indeed has something righteous to cry about.
However, given Barton’s track record, I won’t believe a word until I check it out myself..
Agreed. But he’s often birddogging something real, although he exaggerates, he does not fabricate from whole cloth. In this case, if he’s wrong about smelling a skunk, it doesn’t mean he’s not correctly smelling a rat.

]]> By: ken https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/03/11/even-david-bartons-allies-have-to-clarify-his-statements/#comment-55261 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:56:50 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=14149#comment-55261 I would doubt that the curriculum is being made “in secret.” I would bet instead that, due to the revelations about his qualifications as a “historian”, Barton has simply been removed from the process. So now he is trying to re-insert himself by stirring up a panic.

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