The Texas State Board of Education decided to remove a curriculum requirement to teach high school students about Hillary Clinton’s role as a twice-failed presidential candidate.
Teri Webster, at TheBlaze, explains:
Under other preliminary approvals, the social studies curriculum would no also longer require students to learn about 1964 Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater and Hellen Keller, a disability rights advocate who became the first deaf and blind person to graduate from college.
The proposed removal of Clinton, Goldwater, and Keller sparked little discussion among board members on Friday. Several dozen people who addressed the board earlier in the week also showed virtually no interest in these proposed changes, according to the report.
Under the state’s curriculum, elementary or high school students are required to learn about Clinton, Goldwater, and Keller — and others — in lessons on “good citizenship.” But committee members recommended the three be removed to save teachers “several minutes of instruction time,” and “remove irrelevant information,” the report stated.
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Curriculum committees reportedly use a formula to determine the importance of various figures inrelationship to the social studies curriculum. Among the areas measured were influence, impact on underrepresented groups and whether the figures represent diverse perspectives, according to the report.
According to the Board, Keller had the highest ranking, followed by Hillary and Goldwater.
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