Ethics

Bible Courses in Texas Remain Troublesome

By Ed Brayton

The Texas state legislature voted last year to encourage public schools to teach Bible courses, but they left it to the State Board of Education to create guidelines for those courses. The SBOE is working on them now, but apparently aren't doing much:

But Kathy Miller of the Texas Freedom Network said the board is proposing to adopt the same loose curriculum standards that preceded the legislation and that do not specifically address religion or the Bible.

Districts need specific guidance on how to teach the Bible while protecting religious freedoms of students and avoiding lawsuits, Miller said.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 31, 2008 (boomark / email).