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Elementary school curriculum proposed this week would infuse new state reading and language arts lessons with teachings on the Bible, marking the latest push by Texas Republicans to put more Christianity in public schools.

The Texas Education Agency released the thousands of pages of educational materials this week. They have been made available for public viewing and feedback and, if approved by the State Board of Education in November, will be available for public schools to roll out in August of 2025. Districts will have the option of whether to use the materials, but will be incentivized to do so with up to $60 per student in additional funding.

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[-] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 43 points 1 month ago

Genuinely looking forward to the Satanic Temple shenanigans over this one. A competing Satan infused curriculum would be fun

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Especially since the Satanic Temple doesn't even believe in a literal Satan. The Satanic Temple beliefs are essentially just empathy, reason, and the pursuit of knowledge.

[-] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah, they're great! I remember first reading about them well probably over a decade ago. They do amazing work.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

Time to insist on the cult of Dionysus getting a say.

[-] Entropywins@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

That'd be a pretty wild elementary school...

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Say what you want, but the school parties are lit.

In reality, these assholes might be all for it until the cult starts talking about that pesky consent thing.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Why is Texas in competition with Florida for being the worst state in the US?

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I think Louisiana has taken up the Florida torch...

[-] Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 month ago

Don't tempt Florida, they don't need any inspiration

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Inspiration is what the meth is for.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

And here I thought Mississippi had the crown of being the worst state.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Killing education first, so you have an endless flood of uneducated, poverty-stricken, gullible followers

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Driving the libs out to lock up those electoral votes.

[-] SickofReddit@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Why can they opt to use them? How does this work down there can you just teach whatever you want? Isn't there some kind of federal mandate on what needs to be taught and what can't be taught? Or is it just every state in school can do whatever the heck it wants down there?

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yes, each state has its own board of education, and those bodies set the curriculum for each state. It's absolutely insane.

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