San Angelo ISD to Reconsider Bible-Influenced Curriculum at Special Meeting

 

SAN ANGELO, TX – The San Angelo ISD Board of Trustees will revisit its decision on adopting the Bluebonnet Learning curriculum at a special meeting Monday at 5:45 p.m.

The meeting will happen at the San Angelo ISD Administration Building, located at 1621 University Ave. 

The proposed instructional material, previously tabled in February, has drawn debate over its content, instructional quality, and concerns about potential religious influence.

The board postponed the vote last month as one board member was absent, citing the need for every board member to be present during the decision.

Deputy Superintendent Dr. Farrah Gomez has recommended adopting Bluebonnet Learning, stating it is the only State Board of Education-approved Open Educational Resource (OER) that fully aligns with Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). If approved, the adoption would provide the district with $1 million in state funding, plus an additional $237,000 for printing costs.

During the previous meeting, trustees and community members were divided on the curriculum. Critics raised concerns about instructional quality, teacher autonomy, and religious undertones, while supporters praised its traditional teaching methods and minimal screen time.

Other agenda items for Monday’s meeting include a Finance and Audit Committee workshop, a bond presentation, financial reports, and consideration of the district’s E-Rate grant application for technology funding.

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Listed By: Wiley Coyote

SAISD needs to do better and do the right thang, SAISDs past piss poor decisions have and will continue losing students to private schools.  

Listed By: Rita Repulsa

Writing as a non-Christian, I still have to ask: How could Bible-based schooling possibly be worse than the status quo in any possible way?

As a child, I was never taught about the cycles of nations or civilizations, and I could see at a young age that many of the cultural practices the society around me was adopting were going to lead to widespread problems. I grew up and encountered the works of great minds whose observations about human nature mirrored my own, and whose depth of experience added to my own understanding considerably.

You are not preparing these kids for the world that the complacent among you think you are. You are preparing them, (or failing to prepare them,) for a world where the rippling and concatenate effects of generations of piss-poor collective decision making are going to present challenges to them that you now consider utterly foreign.

Only 30 years since the Soviet Union collapsed and you all forgot why the fall-out shelters were built. Teachers are sleeping with their students and the students are warlords-in-training and/or illiterate mapouka dancers. Try something different.

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