The educational system should focus on imparting essential academic knowledge, qualities of good citizenship, practical skills, and self-sufficiency. We support, without exception, requiring Texas public schools to be fully transparent with parents regarding everything to which their child is or will be exposed. Curriculum of Instructional Excellence shall include the following:
a) Language arts with phonics-based reading instruction, spelling, grammar, classical literature, and cursive writing.
b) Civics, which includes passing the US Citizenship and Immigration Services test prior to graduation.
c) In mathematics, we support stronger emphasis on the TEKS 2nd and 3rd grade math standards to recall addition/multiplication facts “with automaticity,” which significantly enables students to better comprehend subsequent material.
d) In science, we support objective teaching of scientific method, practices, and theories including the complexity of life origins and the changing climate throughout geologic history. These concepts shall be taught as challengeable scientific theories subject to change as new data is produced. Teachers and students shall discuss the strengths and weaknesses of these theories openly, without fear of retribution or discrimination.
e) In computer science, we support instruction in programming and introducing discrete math (logic, counting, probability, number theory, recursion, graph theory) to supplement it.
f) Social studies, including geography, economics, and US and world history. Such instruction shall focus on American exceptionalism, the benefits of the free-enterprise system, and the consistent failures of socialism and communism.
g) We support education in the arts and music and building critical thinking skills, including logic, rhetoric, and analytical sciences. We support quality vocational educational training that imparts skills needed for meaningful post-graduation employment.
h) We encourage more participation in academic competitions to complement the curriculum, to think critically and creatively, and to motivate students as they acquire higher levels of knowledge.