Last week, Townhall columnist Chuck Norris called public schools “indoctrination camps.” This week, he offers a “corrective”:

work to install a Bible curriculum into your public school district. Yes, it's legal, constitutional and being placed right now in thousands of schools across the country. A brand-new electronic version of the curriculum is available this week. The National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools' curriculum has been voted into 572 school districts (2,086 high schools) in 38 states, from Alaska and California to Pennsylvania and Florida. Ninety-three percent of school boards that have been approached to date with the curriculum have voted to implement it because the course helps students understand the Bible's influence and impact on history, literature, our legal and educational systems, art, archaeology and other parts of civilization. In this elective class, students are required to read through their textbook -- the Bible.

According to a 2008 Austin American-Statesman article, the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools has been criticized by religious scholars for “sloppy work,” factual errors, and for portraying conservative protestant Christianity as the “only true religion”:

Legal issues aside, [University of Texas biblical studies professor Steven] Friesen said the National Council curriculum is “sloppy work” with factual, historical mistakes; dubious sources; and a shallow understanding of the academic discipline.

A review of the curriculum published in an academic journal last year found that it assumes that conservative Protestant Christianity is the “only true religion” and that the Bible is “infallible and thus historically accurate.”

“As a whole, it does little to describe the Bible in literature, and it presents a particular view of biblical history that may push the bounds of what is acceptable in a public-school setting,” wrote the authors, one of whom is Kent Richards, director of the Society of Biblical Literature.

And Chuck Norris claims this curriculum is a corrective to schools functioning as as “indoctrination camps.”