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Social Studies TEKS Review
Comments by Dr. Carole Hornsby Haynes
February 24, 2026
CHH Note: Work Group comments indicate that nearly all the standards contain an excessive amount of content. I concur and suggest they be pared down to only the most important issues and events with focus on “cause and effect.”
My purpose for this review is to highlight standards most likely to have political and racial bias. This bias is especially found in the Civil War era and the Civil Rights movement. NOTE: I have not included all of the areas because of the excessive amount of content already. Unless the bias is removed, the new instructional materials will continue what is already in textbooks: 1) The central role of the North in slavery and sectional divisions is always ignored, 2) The South was -- and still is -- racist and the Civil War was caused by Southern states wanting to keep slavery, 3) The fact that some Southern slave owners were black is never mentioned.
This message continues the animosity against the “treasonous” and “racist” white South. This is why the Marxist cultural revolution substituted race for class conflict of worker proletariat (oppressed) – Critical Race Theory.
Because education has become indoctrination, I have included comments with facts that can be found in government and original documents of that period instead of the revisionist history we’re now using.
After years of liberal professors spewing their propaganda at captive students who needed the class for graduation, the pendulum is slowly swinging back to the right. 
On January 30, Texas students joined thousands of other government brainwashed students, often encouraged by educators, in a national demonstration against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
American schools began with the Puritans in the 1600s for the purpose of Bible literacy. With the Bible as the core of learning, America’s first reader, the New England Primer, was created to teach children Bible stories, poems, hymns, and prayers. This emphasis on literacy and education promoted strong religious convictions among colonists and led to the creation of the most literate, educated society in the world. 
If anyone wonders why public schools are hemorraging students as well as teachers, while private and homeschools are soaring, the scandalous hiring and arrest of an illegal alien fugitive from Guyana will end that confusion. 
Public school enrollment continues to careen downward with no end in sight. Although the long term decline in the U.S. birth rate and changing demographics are drivers for plummeting enrollment, dissatisfaction with public education and school choice are triggering a movement toward alternative forms of education.
In a recent