The first crack in the monolithic left-wing control of public education?

Texas schoolchildren will be required to learn that the words “separation of church and state” aren’t in the Constitution and evaluate whether the United Nations undermines U.S. sovereignty under new social studies curriculum.

In final votes late Friday, conservatives on the State Board of Education strengthened requirements on teaching the Judeo-Christian influences of the nation’s Founding Fathers and required that the U.S. government be referred to as a “constitutional republic” rather than “democratic.” (See earlier story)

The board approved the new standards with two 9-5 votes along party lines after months of ideological haggling and debate that drew attention beyond Texas.

How horrible!  Texan schoolchildren might learn…the truth?  Of course, for those on the Left, this IS horrible.  As you can imagine, the Dems and other lefties are apoplectic about these changes.  But really, I don’t see what the controversy is all about.  Let’s look at the sore points for a moment,

“Separation of church and state” is not in the Constitution – well, uh, actually it isn’t.  It appears in a private letter written by Thomas Jefferson, the context of which pretty clearly shows that Jefferson wasn’t anywhere close to advocating today’s radical, secularfascist approach to religion in the public square.

The United Nations undermines US sovereignty – This has been pretty common knowledge since the beginning of the Cold War.  In fact, we were aware that the UN had been subverted by the Soviets since 1950.  One look at the long list of UN proposed treaties (such as the Small Arms Treaty) makes it pretty clear that the UN intended to infringe on American liberties and freedom of action.

The Judeo-Christian influences on our Founders – Well, duh.  Even the ones who weren’t Christians (and no, they weren’t all, but some of them were) are pretty clearly within the general Judeo-Christian orbit with respect to their views on religion and its impact on governance.  The myth that they were all “Rational Deists” who couldn’t have cared less what the Bible or Christianity said is just that – a myth.

Referring to the US as a constitutional Republic instead of a democracy – well yeah, that’s because we ARE a constitutional Republic.  I wonder if any of these naysayers have ever actually read what the Founders had to say about democracy (hint – it wasn’t positive)?

This change in curricula is a tremendous step forward toward retaking our public schools from the radical Left.  Per their Gramscian master plan, the Left made taking the public schools one of their primary goals, because if they can shape and mold the thinking of impressionable children, then they create an entire generation that thinks the way they want it to because its most formative years were spent sucking down non-stop propaganda of their devising.  Why do you think most reasonable and intelligent people know, based on the evidences, that global warming is nothing but a con game, yet America’s kids are still being propagandised to believe it as absolute truth?  It’s because the Left knows that sooner or later, we will pass off the scene, but the kids will still be left, and old enough to vote, and get elected, and make policy decisions.

The new curricula flatly contradicts so many dishonest Leftist truisms, it’s no wonder the lefties are up in arms (one Texan lawmaker – a Democrat – has vowed to “rein in” the board).  In other words, punish them for doing their jobs, and doing them well.

Even better, it’s not just 4.8 million Texan kids who will be shown the truth by these curricula.  Texas is one of two states (the other being California) that basically serve as a “gold standard” for public school curricula.  As Texas goes, so go a lot of other states, when the time comes for them to pick out the new textbooks that will be used in their schools.

The public education establishment hates alternatives to the public schools, especially homeschooling.  Every kid that is homeschooled, going to a religious school, etc. is a kid who is not in the clutches of the left-wing educrats.  While alternatives are good solutions, all the same, I think it’s pretty obvious that not every parent can afford a private school, and not every parent is capable of homeschooling their kids.  This leaves the public schools as an unfortunate necessity.  If we can actually succeed in wrestling back public education from the radical left fruitcakes who control so much of it now, it may not be an unfortunate option anymore.  This Texan curricula is a good first step, one which will hopefully be followed by other states as well.