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dalton99a

(96,249 posts)
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 08:51 AM 20 hrs ago

Texas is poised to require millions of students to study Bible stories

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/26/us/texas-schools-bible-curriculum-vote

Texas is poised to require millions of students to study Bible stories
By Elizabeth Wolfe

Texas is on the verge of mandating more than 5 million of its public school students to study Bible stories, as the state emerges as a leader in a national conservative effort to infuse Christian teachings into American classrooms.

The majority-Republican Texas State Board of Education is expected to vote Friday to pass a measure that would establish Biblical children’s stories and Bible verses as required reading in its K-12 curriculum.

Many of its students are already familiar with at least some Christian teachings: Texas last year became the largest state to require classrooms to display the Ten Commandments, a law recently upheld in federal court.

The new list of required titles would include a picture-book adaptation of the David and Goliath story for elementary students and Bible passages about Adam and Eve for older students, among other references.

At the same meeting, the school board will take up a vote to rewrite the state’s social studies curriculum, focusing more on Texas and US history and deemphasizing some teachings about global history and cultures. The change would eliminate a sixth grade “World Cultures” course and significantly expand lessons on communism.

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Texas is poised to require millions of students to study Bible stories (Original Post) dalton99a 20 hrs ago OP
I can see an exodus of residents................ Lovie777 20 hrs ago #1
Texas is poised for major lawsuits. sinkingfeeling 20 hrs ago #2
I'd read the one about a talking Donkey. n/t Jacson6 20 hrs ago #3
Lot's daughters, right there in Genesis Ponietz 17 hrs ago #9
If I were a teacher in Texas Johnny2X2X 19 hrs ago #4
This... JPK 19 hrs ago #5
Whose interpretation? czarjak 19 hrs ago #6
Very SELECTIVE Bible stories and readings, I don't doubt Vogon_Glory 19 hrs ago #7
Can parents opt their kids out. Conservatives are all about the parental opt out in public schools. Buckeyeblue 18 hrs ago #8
It's a weak god they have...... lastlib 7 hrs ago #10

Lovie777

(24,512 posts)
1. I can see an exodus of residents................
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:03 AM
20 hrs ago

freedom of religion. The European immigrants fled their country for a new world for it, thereafter, Europe created a sanctuary to oust their criminals.

King of England proclaimed the new world - commonwealth that he could govern plus $$$$$ factor too.

History repeating itself again. Rinse and repeat.

Ponietz

(4,609 posts)
9. Lot's daughters, right there in Genesis
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:35 AM
17 hrs ago

They censor as much from the Bible as they try to force feed others.

Johnny2X2X

(24,593 posts)
4. If I were a teacher in Texas
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:18 AM
19 hrs ago

And they told me I had to pick bible stories to teach, I would pick the most brutal and sadistic passages in the bible. Kids would be going home and telling their parents how today they learned about how god commanded genocide, rape, and pedophilia.

Vogon_Glory

(10,428 posts)
7. Very SELECTIVE Bible stories and readings, I don't doubt
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 10:17 AM
19 hrs ago

And the writers and designers for these classes will studiously ignore what the Man from Nazareth and the Old Testament prophets had to say about corruption and the uncaring rich who either ignored the poor and ailing in their midst or persecuted them.

And as for the passages about proper behavior towards foreign travelers and immigrants, THOSE passages will be edited out before the first hard copy is bound together.


EDIT: For grins, folks, look up Ezekiel chapter 16, verses 49 and 50.

The sort of thing just begging for the DELETE button. YOU BETCHA!


Buckeyeblue

(6,486 posts)
8. Can parents opt their kids out. Conservatives are all about the parental opt out in public schools.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 10:20 AM
18 hrs ago

lastlib

(28,837 posts)
10. It's a weak god they have......
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:26 PM
7 hrs ago

...that it needs the help of the legislature.....They really should get a better god.

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