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Investigation Looks For Muslim Bias In Texas Schools, Finds Christian Bias Instead
A bizarre chain email sent to district and school board officials in the Dallas area this October titled IRVING ISD INDOCTRINATING ISLAM inspired a recent investigation of Islamic bias in the districts curriculum. Despite the outlandish claims, the district requested that an official from the organization that created the curriculum to respond. The results of a 72-page investigation done by the organization were not surprising: theres a Christian bias in schools, not a Muslim one.
The official told the board that a bias toward Islam didnt exist, even mentioning that she hired a very socially and fiscally conservative former social studies teacher who watches Glenn Beck on a regular basis to seek out any Islamic bias in CSCOPE [the curriculum]. She asked her to look for anything she would consider the least bit controversial. The Dallas Morning News has the details of an investigation that mentioned every religious reference in the CSCOPE curriculum, from kindergarten to high school:
- Christianity got twice as much attention in the curriculum as any other religion. Islam was a distant second.
- The Red Crescent and Boston Tea Party reference mentioned in the email were nowhere in CSCOPEs curriculum, although they may have been in the past.
- If there was any Islamic bias in CSCOPE it was bias against radical Islam.
This isnt the first time Texas has debated the perceived presence of too much Islam in its school books. In 2010, the Texas Board of Education banned any books that paint Islam in too favorable of a light.
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/12/12/1321841/texas-school-islam-christian-bias/
marmar
(77,081 posts)nt
Mariana
(14,858 posts)anything they read in those idiotic RW chain e-mails that go around. How fucking gullible can these people be? And, of course the curriculum is biased in favor of Christians and Christianity. The fundies on state school board have been working for years to make the public schools promote Christianity. My kid attended public high school in that area from 2009 to 2011, when we moved away from there. They could have just asked her or any other non-Christian kid what goes on.
Baitball Blogger
(46,731 posts)Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)Explain that!!
Thav
(946 posts)If you don't see that then you're blind! It's happening! Right now! You have to take a STAND against it!
EC
(12,287 posts)How stupid does one have to be?
Thav
(946 posts)"Well, that's alright then."
I'm sure that was said.
dmr
(28,347 posts)Money that could be put to good use on the students and teachers.
louis-t
(23,295 posts)louis-t
(23,295 posts)When one nut said that to me, I told him to go verify that with the mayor of Dearborn, who happens to be Irish .