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Dr Hill brings out many excellent solutions, i would like to see more communities working with African Centered curriculum like SETCLAE from Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu and his company African American Images.
Self-Esteem Through Culture Leads to Academic Excellence (SETCLAE) is a model curriculum that provides a mechanism through which educators, youth workers, and parents can teach their children the positive aspects of their cultural heritage and simultaneously increase their self-esteem and their desire to excel

Wow, you are a peice of work. It's so clear that people as yourself use your education as a badge to bully people around with your passive-aggressive soft slaps that simply say, "Yours are the only one-sided opinions allowed?" When you say experts, its just another name for liberal croonies you support. When you say religious tolerance, it means to censor, silence and criminalize conservative views of Christians and Jews as hate speach but allow terrorist Jihad spewing radicals equal or more American freedoms than U.S. citizens? You Libs really hate when free Americans excercise their freedom. What an American thing for Texas, a supposed United State within free America to set a standard people will want to follow? Although if California and San Francisco set the standard with homosexual and anti-*udeo-Christian curriculums you would not be fighting for Texas' disinfranchised positions? That's because you libs strive to hold up a magic mirror, mirror in your hand do socialist liberals run lands? Besides, fights their own fights. Texans would still home school every child they could and out perform your lib-minded programmed drones. Y'all really got to get off this COLOR thang. If all Americans were blind to color or had no sight for vision, there would still be the same lazy, selfish, uninspirable society members that leech from communities, pollute our airwaves and raise the cost and size of government because their ears are too small or some other thing they can blame on society. All the need is someone to help them feel sorry for themselves and presto - they continue asking for handouts for the rest of their lives - just how you libs like it. That way, you can build a Liberal govt to tell Americans how it is and how it's going to be. Well, we in Texas have the high F'lootin notion that WE tell the Govt what to do, not they other way around. Remember Professor, this G-d's country. You may think you can mess with Texas, but your arms are too short to box with G-d. Someday when you meet Him personally, I know He will want to show you mercy, not for ignorance out of Love for you. Until then, you remain an unenlightened blind man leading only the blind. Both will fall into a pit. Even then he will you help you out, but your time is short as all men's days are counted - so are yours. Make your days count by inspiring citizens not putting them into bondage and slavery of Govt. By convincing people that can only get through life if a momma like nany-state government is there to help. Also, do not be afraid of your creator, after all, He did give you free will to refuse Him, how bad can He be. Believe me, you do not want G-d out of Texas as much you do not want to leave this world without G-d. Meeting your maker is the real issue behind your fears. Your problem is not the books of Texas but that our books bring you closer to a creator that you d not have to fear. Shalom, Zane Michaels.

Hard to shed a tear for your cause here, Dr. Hill. If they can improve the PC drivel I had to endure during my high school days in the 1980s, I'm all for it. I learned more about Watergate than I did about George Washington.

Dinosaurs? You live in America. The free market is what we used to be known for. There's nothing wrong with emphasizing that. And "the Right has situated itself into every sector of public life" in the last 30 years? Are you serious?!? Thanks to the left, school administrators can take kids for abortions with no consent, kids are barred from wearing a cross at school, and they are blasted with liberal theology from morning until night. Whining because the Righties are seeking a tiny sliver of the pie that is their children's future is like the 911 bombers whining about not getting to make their phone call. Give me a break!

“Yours are the only one-sided opinions allowed?”------The concept employed above is that students should be granted access to an abundance of information. Contrarily, from the new Texas laws being imposed, that information is being censored by extreme conservatives. While reading the above excerpt, I did not review any of Dr. Hill’s comments that insinuated student’s should either be left or right…simply, that they should have the privilege of being exposed to a surplus of views; many of which have been taught in previous years to older generations. I feel the issue at hand is more concerned with awareness and access than making a definitive decision on “WHAT” should be taught. Another issue that seems to be prevalent in the above excerpt is the idea of “WHO” is making the decisions in regards to the curriculum. How can a painter decide what is most important for a Physicist to teach his students? Further, how could a liberal decide what is important to teach a conservative course on ethics or what not?

“You Libs really hate when free Americans exercise their freedom”----when you infer “free Americans,” I am inclined to ask who you are justly referring to? You go on to suggest this is a standard that free Texan, Americans would want to follow? This sounds absurd (subjectively my opinion), but subjective in reference to you speaking for the entire state of Texas.

“Ya’ll really have to get off of this COLOR thang”----Is this what race relations and racial tensions are defined as these days? I suppose you believe we live in a post-racial society because you have the privilege of not having to experience racial tensions or discuss your whiteness?

“If all Americans were blind to color or had no sight for vision, there would still be the same lazy, selfish, uninspirable society members that leech from communities, pollute our airwaves and raise the cost and size of government because their ears are too small or some other thing they can blame on society.”----this includes all races or are you pinpointing one specific or most minority populations? (Plus, “uninspirable is not a word)

“Well, we in Texas have the high F'lootin notion that WE tell the Govt what to do, not they other way around.”-----No need to respond to this grammatical, erroneous statement of false, misinformed nonsense that you speak of. If the government was not involved, then the “laws” imposed would not have been passed or necessary for you all to build or support this new curriculum.

Concluding, the rest of the response is convoluted with “He” and “G-d” and Christian beliefs and so forth. Unfortunately, if Dr. Hill did or does not believe in this Christian ideology that you speak of, this entire text is pointless. It never ceases to amaze me when conservative Christians feel inclined to “damn” everyone who they feel is not following the “good laws”; yet, the same religion that you speak of clearly implies that only your “G-d” can judge. Moreover, you continue to name call and bash as if that is ample and sufficient argumentative support for your claim. I think not.