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The WallBuilders Show

Revolutionizing Education: Classical Curriculum and Legislative Reforms- with Sen. Phil King

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

Wallbuilders Show, Education, Constitutional, Church, Christianity, History, Conservative, America, Family, Christian, Biblical, Religion & Spirituality, Wallbuilders.show, Government, News, Politics

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Texas State Senator Phil King joins us to challenge the status quo in public education, advocating for a transformative curriculum grounded in classical literature, phonics, and cursive writing. Learn why he believes the Golden Rule and timeless principles should be at the heart of Texas' educational framework. Discover the senator's insights into the current issues plaguing lesson plans and foundational skills, and his vision for a structured, state-provided curriculum enriched with hard cop...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture. It's the Wall Builder Show where we're taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical historical

0:13.2

and constitutional perspective. I'm Rick Green here with David Barton and

0:16.2

Tim Barton and special guest Phil King, state senator in the great state of

0:20.6

Texas and actually Phil you got two constituents on the program

0:24.7

today since David and Tim live in your district so you know I don't know if they're

0:29.1

going to lobby you or what but welcome to the program brother good to have you back

0:31.8

glad to be here in fact David's actually the one that came to me years ago and and

0:37.5

asked me to run for the legislature so good or bad it's all his fault.

0:42.0

Yeah so Terry still still still blaming I'm sure.

0:45.0

David thanks for the last 30 years of our life.

0:47.0

Yeah.

0:48.0

Or 25, whatever it's been.

0:49.0

Yeah, yeah.

0:50.0

Well, hey man, you obviously now on the Senate side of things where things move a little slower and, and you know, more mundane compared to the crazy house, but you're also very involved in the education side of things, whichever side of the house you're on.

1:08.0

And for, I don't know, what has it been 25, 30 years?

1:10.0

We've been trying to get a lot of good stuff into the curriculum for Texas kids

1:14.9

including how do you treat your neighbor things like the you know golden rule that sort of

1:19.8

thing and apparently a lot of that's actually going to be in this new curriculum that the State Board of Education is considering

1:25.8

but there's you know there's obviously the left is against that they don't want any biblical references going into the curriculum

1:31.8

and then there's some people on the right that have some concerns about it. So we thought we'd get you on to talk about. We had Steve Tothon last week from the House side of things. I thought we'd get you on and see what you thought. And if I can interject too, we've actually had several emails, phone calls, concerned individuals since that Steve Toth, where we talked about this house bill and changing some of the

1:54.5

the fabric and the foundation of the way education has been done and you know dad for

1:58.5

years you've talked about how education to public school is really kind of like

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