Mustang School district approves new Bible history course

[Plutonic Panda]

The Mustang School Board approved a new curriculum that will teach the history of the Bible.

The board voted in favor of approving the curriculum entitled ‘The Book, the Bible’s History, Narrative and Impact of the World’s Best selling Book’ at their regular meeting on Monday evening. The course is an elective, meaning it is not required.

Steve Green, president and CEO of Hobby Lobby, visited the school board in November to tell them of the new curriculum that he worked on.

He and his family own over 40,000 Bibles and he now oversees ‘The Green Collection,’ which has grown to be the world’s largest private collection of rare biblical texts and artifacts.

Green is also working on building a national, nonsectarian Bible museum in Washington D.C. to house the collection.

"We wanted to find the leading scholars to help us and we pulled from this group to help write this curriculum and it will tie to the three parts we want to teach," Green told the board at the November meeting. "With the history, we want to show the archeological evidences of the Bible and then we want to show the impact of the Bible. Thirdly, is the story, meaning, what does the book say."

In December, the school board voted to send the curriculum through its new curriculum process. A curriculum committee looked over the material and the new course was offered to students in a pre-enrollment packet to see if it gained any interest.

"When we sent out our pre-enrollment packets we saw that over 170 kids wanted to take this class," said Superintendent Sean McDaniel.

Before voting on the curriculum on Monday, the board heard from Norman Berry, a concerned citizen who said he wished the board would not approve the course.

- Mustang Times, School district approves new Bible history course

Not sure how I feel about this...

[OKCisOK4me]

At least it is an elective!

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[HangryHippo]

At least it is an elective!

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Thankfully that's all it is. Of course, I don't expect it to stay that way long.

[catcherinthewry]

I enjoyed mythology classes when I was in school.

[OKCisOK4me]

Next thing ya know, they'll be offering an elective on the Koran.

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[Mississippi Blues]

Next thing ya know, they'll be offering an elective on the Koran.

I actually would've enjoyed that class. Both one on the Bible and on the Qur'an. I find different religions interesting, even when not applying what I read to my life.

[mark]

I actually would've enjoyed that class. Both one on the Bible and on the Qur'an. I find different religions interesting, even when not applying what I read to my life.

but this class isn't on different religions. it's on the book. the third part of the curriculum, "what it means", makes it sound more like they're teaching religion.

[Mississippi Blues]

but this class isn't on different religions. it's on the book. the third part of the curriculum, "what it means", makes it sound more like they're teaching religion.

Okay. I wasn't saying anything about this class. I was responding to OKCisOK4me and his Qur'an statement and implying my personal thoughts on if such "religion" classes were offered while I was still in school. You're right though.

[Dubya61]

I'll bet they also study Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer in literature class (and, if you ask me, invest too much time into figuring out what THAT means). This is simply a focused elective literature class.

[catcherinthewry]

This is simply a focused elective literature class.

Yeah, I'm sure Steve Green has no agenda at all.

[Dubya61]

Yeah, I'm sure Steve Green has no agenda at all.

I'll bet you there's more room for discussion there than in my daughter's lit class discussing the Wizard of Oz.

[PennyQuilts]

You couldn't pay me enough to teach that class. The agnostics, Baptists, Nazarenes and Baptists would be reporting inaccuracies, daily.