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Today the Enlightenment and Thomas Jefferson were disappeared from Texas.<\/p>\nToday the Enlightenment and Thomas Jefferson were disappeared from Texas.<\/p>\n
Here’s a live blog<\/a> from this morning’s hearings at the Texas State Board of Education. (Emphasis mine.)<\/p>\n 9:30 \u2013 Board member Cynthia Dunbar wants to change a standard having students study the impact of Enlightenment ideas on political revolutions from 1750 to the present. She wants to drop the reference to Enlightenment ideas<\/strong> (replacing with \u201cthe writings of\u201d) and to Thomas Jefferson. She adds Thomas Aquinas and others. Jefferson\u2019s ideas, she argues, were based on other political philosophers listed in the standards. We don\u2019t buy her argument at all. Board member Bob Craig of Lubbock points out that the curriculum writers clearly wanted to students to study Enlightenment ideas and Jefferson. Could Dunbar\u2019s problem be that Jefferson was a Deist? The board approves the amendment, taking Thomas Jefferson OUT of the world history standards<\/strong>.<\/p>\n 9:40 \u2013 We\u2019re just picking ourselves up off the floor. The board\u2019s far-right faction has spent months now proclaiming the importance of emphasizing America\u2019s exceptionalism in social studies classrooms. But today they voted to remove one of the greatest of America\u2019s Founders, Thomas Jefferson, from a standard about the influence of great political philosophers on political revolutions from 1750 to today.<\/p>\n 9:45 \u2013 Here\u2019s the amendment Dunbar changed: \u201cexplain the impact of Enlightenment ideas<\/strong> from John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Voltaire, Charles de Montesquieu, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Thomas Jefferson on political revolutions from 1750 to the present.\u201d Here\u2019s Dunbar\u2019s replacement standard, which passed: \u201cexplain the impact of the writings<\/strong> of John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Voltaire, Charles de Montesquieu, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and Sir William Blackstone.\u201d Not only does Dunbar\u2019s amendment completely change the thrust of the standard. It also appalling drops one of the most influential political philosophers in American history \u2014 Thomas Jefferson.<\/p>\n Incidentally, Thomas Jefferson was arguably America’s first paleontologist<\/a>. Which certainly didn’t help<\/a> his case in Texas.<\/p>\n Today the Enlightenment and Thomas Jefferson were disappeared from Texas. Here’s a live blog from this morning’s hearings at the Texas State Board of Education. (Emphasis mine.) 9:30 \u2013 Board member Cynthia Dunbar wants to change a standard having students study the impact of Enlightenment ideas on political revolutions from 1750 to the present. She […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
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