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San Antonio Express-News: Study indicates public school classes on Bible are faulted
he majority of Bible courses offered as electives in Texas high schools are devotional and sectarian in nature, not academic, as required by a host of rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court on down, a study says.
“With a few notable exceptions, the public school courses currently taught in Texas often fail to meet minimal academic standards for teacher qualifications; curriculum, and academic rigor; promote one faith perspective over all others; and push an ideological agenda that is hostile to religious freedom, science and public education,” states a yearlong study by the Austin-based Texas Freedom Network that will be made public today.
The 76-page report, titled “Reading, Writing and Religion: Teaching the Bible in Texas Public Schools,” is one of the most ambitious looks ever at the Bible courses that have sprouted up in the nation’s public high schools.
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