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To: The Texas State Board of Education
Keep Religion Out of Texas Classrooms: Reject "Bluebonnet Learning"
To the Texas State Board of Education and Local Texas School Board Trustees,
As a constituent, taxpayer, and advocate for secular education, I am writing to formally voice my strict opposition to the implementation of the "Bluebonnet Learning" curriculum in Texas public schools.
Public education must remain entirely grounded in reason, science, empirical evidence, and academic knowledge. Utilizing state-funded classrooms to teach sectarian Christian myths and biblical dogmas to K-8 students is a direct violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The government has no right to use public infrastructure or taxpayer dollars to promote supernatural beliefs or religious indoctrination directly, nor indirectly.
Texas is home to a diverse and growing population of atheists, agnostics, and secular humanists. Our children have a constitutional right to an educational environment completely free from state-sponsored religious coercion.
I demand that the State Board of Education reverse its approval of these materials and remove all religious texts from the K-8 curriculum.
Furthermore, I urge local school board trustees to reject the state's financial incentives and formally vote against adopting this Bible-infused curriculum in our community's classrooms.
Sincerely,
David Wynn
Why is this important?
This cause is a direct response to the Texas State Board of Education’s (SBOE) controversial decision to approve the "Bluebonnet Learning" curriculum for elementary and middle school reading classes.
This state-backed policy integrates specific Bible stories, verses, and Christian theological narratives into mandatory K-8 public education across Texas. Scheduled to phase into classrooms, this curriculum impacts over 5 million public school students and attempts to institutionalize religious teaching under the guise of basic literacy education.
Public schools must remain strictly dedicated to academic excellence, reason, science, and empirical evidence. Using public infrastructure and taxpayer dollars to introduce supernatural religious mythologies into the classroom is a direct violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, which demands a total wall of separation between church and state. Religious instruction belongs entirely within the private sphere of families and faith communities, not inside state-funded institutions where children are a captive audience.
Furthermore, the state's implementation strategy includes financial coercion, offering school districts additional funding per student if they agree to adopt these Bible-infused materials. This creates systemic pressure on local boards to sacrifice secular neutrality for financial survival.
This cause represents atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, and freethinkers across Texas who demand that education remain entirely secular and free from religious indoctrination. We are fighting to protect vulnerable children from government-sponsored religious coercion, to preserve the constitutional integrity of our public schools, and to pressure both state officials and local school boards to completely reject this curriculum in favor of rational, evidence-based education.
This state-backed policy integrates specific Bible stories, verses, and Christian theological narratives into mandatory K-8 public education across Texas. Scheduled to phase into classrooms, this curriculum impacts over 5 million public school students and attempts to institutionalize religious teaching under the guise of basic literacy education.
Public schools must remain strictly dedicated to academic excellence, reason, science, and empirical evidence. Using public infrastructure and taxpayer dollars to introduce supernatural religious mythologies into the classroom is a direct violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, which demands a total wall of separation between church and state. Religious instruction belongs entirely within the private sphere of families and faith communities, not inside state-funded institutions where children are a captive audience.
Furthermore, the state's implementation strategy includes financial coercion, offering school districts additional funding per student if they agree to adopt these Bible-infused materials. This creates systemic pressure on local boards to sacrifice secular neutrality for financial survival.
This cause represents atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, and freethinkers across Texas who demand that education remain entirely secular and free from religious indoctrination. We are fighting to protect vulnerable children from government-sponsored religious coercion, to preserve the constitutional integrity of our public schools, and to pressure both state officials and local school boards to completely reject this curriculum in favor of rational, evidence-based education.