Schools Matter: Learning about Hippies in Louisiana's Voucher Schools

Schools Matter: Learning about Hippies in Louisiana's Voucher Schools:

Learning about Hippies in Louisiana's Voucher Schools

by Jim Horn

Beka Books is owned by Arlin and Beka Horton, who both graduated from Bob Jones "University" in 1951.  The company, which now has an extensive product line of semi-literate ultra-fundamentalist teaching materials, made headlines a couple of years ago by changing the Christian unfriendly "Slave Trade" to the "Atlantic Triangular Trade."  How offensive an unwholesome to talk about slavery in a Christian environment.  From Political Research Associates:

On May 21, Texas School Board member Cynthia Dunbar opened the board’s meeting with an invocation: “Whether we look to the first charter of Virginia, or the charter of New England, or the charter of Massachusetts Bay, or the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, the same objective is present—a Christian land governed by Christian principles.”¹ The board then voted nine to five, along party lines, to adopt new standards that will be used to teach the state’s 4.8 million students—resisting the pleas of educators, historians, and even Rod Paige, a former U.S. secretary of education under President George W. Bush. The new standards emphasize the role of Christianity in U.S. history and promote conservative values. A New York Times editorial pointed out that the Texas board did back down on a few of its “most outrageous efforts”—such as renaming the slave trade, the