Monday, July 19, 2021

Texas Senate bill seeks to strip required lessons on people of color and women from “critical race theory” law

As expected, last Friday,  Senate Bill 3  was passed, 18-4 in the Texas Senate.  This vote was largely symbolic since House Dems will not get to vote on this bill, keeping it from becoming law. In the meantime, House Bill 3979, is law and is somewhat better than SB 3979. Both are about whitewashing curriculum but the latter is limited to the social studies curriculum, as opposed to the former, which is about every subject in K-12 schooling in Texas.

Republicans offer no vision or visionary leadership. There's no high-sounding rhetoric here. Instead, these bills are small-minded and defensive, exuding fear and intimidation.

These are attributes of some relationships between individuals that we have all gotten a chance to observe in our lives. Relationships like these are characteristically destructive of those same relationships. 

At the aggregate level of education policy, we can expect little more. Narrow-mindedness is ruinous to things we care about as a society, including inventiveness, resourcefulness, and independent thought that have mostly served us well as a state and country.

-Angela Valenzuela

Texas Senate bill seeks to strip required lessons on people of color and women from “critical race theory” law

The bill would also remove a requirement to teach that white supremacy is "morally wrong." One Democratic lawmaker said the bill’s attempts could lead to a “frightening dystopian future.”


Texas lawmakers will consider more bills about how social studies and current events are taught in schools during the special legislative session that began Thurdsay. Allie Goulding/ The Texas Tribune

The lower chamber’s new bills

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