Texas Public Schools are Now REQUIRED to Teach Bible (leader, top 10, California)

[Gary Siete]

Originally Posted by Geechie North

You're even behind my home state of South Carolina!

No wonder you're turning to Jesus.............

Note that is High School graduates - not literacy - I followed a link for literacy & it took me to that table.

[Trae713]

It's an elective in Texas high schools? Wasn't in mine, and I went to a big high school (3600 students). And in a DFW suburb, too. Wasn't even an elective in the other high school I went to as a freshman in the Houston area.

[Geechie North]

Originally Posted by afoigrokerkok

Many of those statistics are poor because the border area is bringing the entire state down. It's a big state.

Are there problems? Yes. Is it the hell some of you want it to be (so you can have a state to make fun of)? No.

Now for the excuse.

And a racist one at that!

[Cyber Queen]

Originally Posted by ray1945

The course is not intended to teach the significance of the Bible to believers. It is to teach how the Bible influenced the founding of this country. Facts, not beliefs.

Your post is a perfect example of how it would be impossible for believers to be objective about the course curriculum and to avoid proselytizing.

How can you teach the Bible's history without teaching how and why it was significant?

[Astron1000]

Originally Posted by afoigrokerkok

...Many of those statistics are poor because the border area is bringing the entire state down. It's a big state.

Are there problems? Yes. Is it the hell some of you want it to be (so you can have a state to make fun of)? No...

WHOA! What are you saying?

Hmmm, lets' see. Arlington Texas is one of the most illiterate cities in America, ranking #72 out of 79 large cities. How "close to the border" is Arlington??

[afoigrokerkok]

Originally Posted by Geechie North

Now for the excuse.

And a racist one at that!

Racist? Legal and illegal immigration are NOT the same. Nice try.

[Geechie North]

Originally Posted by Gary Siete

Note that is High School graduates - not literacy - I followed a link for literacy & it took me to that table.

Yeah, I posted the literacy data up-thread.

Anyway, don't you think it's time they educate their kids rather than just getting "Them undesirables" out of town?

[MovingForward]

Originally Posted by snowthedirtbub

Like it or not, the Bible is the most important piece of literature ever written, even if your not religious.

Thinking otherwise is just ignorant.

No it isn't. The vast majority of people on this planet do not read the Bible.

[Geechie North]

Originally Posted by afoigrokerkok

Racist? Legal and illegal immigration are NOT the same. Nice try.

Yes it is.

[ray1945]

Originally Posted by dcadca

How can you teach the Bible's history without teaching how and why it was significant?

Once again, it's not a course on the Bible's history. It is a course on how the Bible impacted the founding of this country. Or, perhaps, Biblical references in literature. Facts, not beliefs.