Texas school board approves optional curriculum that incorporates Bible lessons for K-5 classes | CNN

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Last year, Texas allowed public schools to hire uncertified religious chaplains as counselors, and the legislature has pushed to require public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments.
54% : Similarly, the Texas Freedom Network – a grassroots organization advocating for religious freedom, individual liberties and public education – says the curriculum “verges on Christian proselytism insofar as its extensive, lopsided coverage of Christianity and the Bible suggests that this is the only religious tradition of any importance,” a report analyzing the materials shows.
49% : She said, while the Supreme Court has ruled that public schools can teach the Bible in an academic context, “this curriculum is not that.”
49% : The infusion of religion in public schools is a trend that is beginning to emerge in other Republican-led states: A federal judge this month temporarily blocked a Louisiana law that would have required the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom by the new year.
48% : “The same politicians censoring what students can read now want to impose state-sponsored religion onto our public schools.
43% : For Sharyn Vane, an opponent of the Bluebonnet curriculum, it’s the job of parents to teach their children about religion — not public schools.

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