Well, folks, it turns out that when you’re busy trying to turn Texas elementary schools into Sunday schools, minor things like “facts,” “grammar,” and “not stealing copyrighted photos” tend to fall through the cracks. The Texas Education Agency (TEA) just admitted that their “Bluebonnet Learning” curriculum—the one the state practically bribed schools to adopt—is currently riddled with roughly 4,200 errors.
For those of you keeping score at home, four other actual professional publishers submitted a combined total of 16 errors. The TEA, apparently operating on the “Jesus will fix it in post” philosophy, managed 4,200. We’re talking about missing pages, books literally falling apart in kids’ hands, and an answer key that is arguably more fictional than the parables the curriculum is so obsessed with.
The best part? Over 500 of these “edits” are just the state trying to swap out images they didn’t actually have the rights to use. Nothing says “moral education” quite like a massive side of potential copyright infringement. While administrators are calling the rollout an “embarrassing disaster” that has doubled teacher workloads, our State Board of Education has decided to do what Texas leadership does best: postpone the meeting and deal with it later.
If the TEA is looking for a lesson on “Thou Shalt Not Steal,” maybe they should start with the clip-art they swiped for the third-grade workbooks?
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/30/texas-education-curriculum-bible-errors-corrections/