Social Studies TEKS Review

“The Underground Railroad”

Comments by Dr. Carole Hornsby Haynes

 March 26, 2026 

Grade 2

7. People of the Civil War

 b. The Story of People Who Opposed Slavery (e.g. Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman) 

CHH - Larry Gara, The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad. Gara found little evidence that the “Underground Railroad” existed, if any. Instead, he writes that the legend was crafted by abolitionists to enhance their role in defining American history. 

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.  

Texas Ousts DEI from Education

By Carole Hornsby Haynes       February 22, 2026     American Thinker

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.  

Texas Takes Action Against Students and “Educators” Who Mobilize for Revolution

By Carole Hornsby Haynes        February 4, 2026 

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).