Texas Education and Divine Protection
At a Texas State Board of Education meeting on May 21st, member Cynthia Dunbar offered an invocation, at the end of which she proclaimed her liking to believe that we are living today in the spirit of the Christian religion and that “as long as we do so, no great harm can come to our country.” What are we to make of this? Dunbar’s statement here associates the United States and Christianity even more strongly than her remark earlier in the prayer that our country is a Christian land governed by Christian principles. Whereas this earlier statement speaks of the country’s religious character by referring to its people and their actions, her latter statement refers directly to God and his actions. Our country exists by divine providence. She believes, or rather likes to believe, that the United States has divine protection as long as the people of the country retain the right religious spirit. The implication is clear: when great harm does come to us, it will be because we have forsaken the Christian spirit. Dunbar, of course, has spearheaded changes in the Texas school curriculum. Her invocation suggests one of her motives: keeping the Christian spirit alive in our school system as a means to keeping it alive in our country. It’s pretty clear she sees herself as an instrument of providence, doing God’s will. Her religious beliefs may well have an underlying influence on the school children of Texas. And, perhaps, beyond.
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What can you report concerning the supposed huge influence that Texas state law has over the school text book industry? This, I have heard, is how what happens in Texas bleeds out into the rest of the nation.
The International Baccalaureate curriculum–an essay-test-based European curriculum that focuses on reading and writing literacy, rather than on bubble-in-your-guess “standardized testing”–is now spreading most rapidly in the world inside American public school districts (and, ironically enough, VERY rapidly among those of the Lone Star State) as an effort to get away from this kind of politicized foolishness that can never take kids to the highest stages of the Bloom’s Taxonomy. What you’re seeing in the majority of the school districts, however, of this now near-barbaric country is the “dumbing down” of academic standards so that kids can get into “universities” that are really only glorified trade schools–and places where they will NEVER be exposed to critical thinking, and will increasingly be, therefore, cannon fodder and the programmed zombies that are the easiest targets of the propogandizing corporate media.
Check this website on the false reporting on the Texas textbook standards http://althouse.blogspot.com/2010/05/if-youre-going-to-criticize-new-social.html
Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson had a similar explanation for 9/11 – it was America’s fault.
I understand she went to Regent University School of Law, which was founded by Pat Robertson.
Yes, and I think that she’s now connected to Falwell’s joint in some way.