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Desu · 03-26-2010 08:13 AM

You rage.

You lose.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/1 ... 98003.html

Quote:Teachers in Texas will be required to cover the Judeo-Christian influences of the nation's Founding Fathers, but not highlight the philosophical rationale for the separation of church and state. Curriculum standards also will describe the U.S. government as a "constitutional republic," rather than "democratic,"

Quote:The Board removed Thomas Jefferson from the Texas curriculum's world history standards on Enlightenment thinking, “replacing him with religious right icon John Calvin.”

Quote:Numerous attempts to add the names or references to important Hispanics throughout history also were denied, inducing one amendment that would specify that Tejanos died at the Alamo alongside Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie. Another amendment deleted a requirement that sociology students "explain how institutional racism is evident in American society."

Quote:Democrats did score a victory by deleting a portion of an amendment by Republican Don McLeroy suggesting that the civil rights movement led to "unrealistic expectations for equal outcomes."

Quote:There were no historians, sociologists or economists consulted at the meetings, though some members of the conservative bloc held themselves out as experts on certain topics.

Quote:Decisions by the board -- made up of lawyers, a dentist and a weekly newspaper publisher among others -- can affect textbook content nationwide because Texas is one of publishers' biggest clients.

HAHAHA

THESE ARE THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE OF OUR EDUCATION

Pieman · 03-26-2010 08:21 AM

I lost.

HeartofShadows · 03-26-2010 08:44 AM

I just raged and wanted to destroy texas.

I cannot fucking wait til I see what shitstorm this causes.

returnal · 03-26-2010 08:45 AM

Welcome to hell.

Also, I lost. Hard.

Absnt · 03-26-2010 10:40 AM

See, I would of never knew about this if It weren't for School-Survival, and that is an example of how blind everyone is, including myself. Something effecting national education should most definitely be an important topic. Surely without this topic this issue would have slipped by me unnoticed. That begs me to ask what else has slipped by in this catastrophe of an education system, and what has slipped by the rest of the public's attention. That my friends is how corruption occurs.

I am beginning to believe, no, I'm almost certain that adults underestimate the schools ability to predispose students to ideals that are unconstitutional and just plain wrong. They underestimate the schools "brainwashing". They do not see how powerful a tool, rather, a weapon the school system really is. If students don't question what is being force-fed to them, surely the U.S and other countries will fall into a more oppressive state. The very act of taking out one small piece of information can cause students to see a distorted view of the world. I'm just glad I learned to question things before all schools descend even further. How then will we go about informing the public in a way that they are compelled to believe us?

LOON_ATTIC · 03-26-2010 10:57 AM

I lost so hard I couldn't keep reading.

Rebelnerd · 03-26-2010 11:38 AM

There was something about this on The Daily Show last week. The Texans voted not to include Oscar Romero in their "heroes who fought against injustice" list, basically because this one fat bitch said that she didn't feel he should be on it.

The Desert Fox · 03-26-2010 02:58 PM

I lost so hard. This is just fucking sad.

Wingless · 03-26-2010 05:19 PM

Just...fuck, I lost the second I began reading.

Almost everyone in power there is just itching to get their own beliefs forced into the education system, and in turn, taking out education and replacing it with propaganda.

We're supposed to be advancing humanity, not hurling it back a few hundred years into the past.

Leon Kinotolian · 03-26-2010 05:36 PM

I'm speechless. I lost right around the end, because I'm that patient right now, but holy crap... Texas really must be going further into the shits. No offense to anyone living there, of course.

Desu · 03-26-2010 11:05 PM

In this thread, people not realizing this affects people outside of Texas because Texas is the biggest publishers of textbooks in the U.S.

Reactions?

psychopath · 03-26-2010 11:26 PM

Michio Wrote:In this thread, people not realizing this affects people outside of Texas because Texas is the biggest publishers of textbooks in the U.S.

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Looks like people in this thread got pwned

HeartofShadows · 03-26-2010 11:28 PM

Michio Wrote:In this thread, people not realizing this affects people outside of Texas because Texas is the biggest publishers of textbooks in the U.S.

Reactions?

You really want people to have rage attacks huh!

I guess I better get ready to tell more bible thumpers to go the fuck off my lawn when more of the new generation tries to convert.

Aya · 03-27-2010 02:07 AM

As much as I want to avoid playing devils advocate right now, it's not like these textbooks weren't unbiased in the first place. US History textbooks are the most blatant forms of propaganda that schools shove down students throats. They're filled with spin, half truths and outright lies. All Texas is doing is changing the direction of this bias.

Rebelnerd · 03-27-2010 05:05 AM

Yes, textbooks are biased. But that doesn't mean we should just shrug and say "oh well" when they try to make it worse.

Aya · 03-27-2010 07:24 AM

Rebelnerd Wrote:Yes, textbooks are biased. But that doesn't mean we should just shrug and say "oh well" when they try to make it worse.

True. But we shouldn't 'rage' about it either.

Rebelnerd · 03-27-2010 07:48 AM

Of course we should. And we should have been raging all along.

Desu · 03-27-2010 08:08 AM

Ayliana Wrote:
Rebelnerd Wrote:Yes, textbooks are biased. But that doesn't mean we should just shrug and say "oh well" when they try to make it worse.

True. But we shouldn't 'rage' about it either.

And this is why those above us continue to control our lives and brainwash us.

Fire Elf · 03-27-2010 08:31 AM

Fuck Texas.

That is all.

Jackass McAwesome · 03-27-2010 09:05 AM

It's fucking Texas! These were the same guys screaming about "Oh, we're gonna secede from the US because Obama scratched our balls wrong," and then pussied out from doing this.

So? We don't need Texas! The God damned textbooks aren't needed either, you shits!

Cilaos · 03-27-2010 09:31 AM

Of course the textbooks aren't NEEDED, but the problem is that a lot of kids will be be taught this shit like it's truth, and they'll just take it on face value because the will to question things has been beaten out of them.

AWOL · 03-28-2010 01:26 AM

Ayliana Wrote:
Rebelnerd Wrote:Yes, textbooks are biased. But that doesn't mean we should just shrug and say "oh well" when they try to make it worse.

True. But we shouldn't 'rage' about it either.

Shit, haven't seen you in a while. Hug

Welcome back. Also, I do agree, the textbooks were already biased. Instead of trying to get the current changes undone, we should scrap the whole thing and begin again.

Aya · 03-29-2010 07:20 AM

AWOL Wrote:
Ayliana Wrote:
Rebelnerd Wrote:Yes, textbooks are biased. But that doesn't mean we should just shrug and say "oh well" when they try to make it worse.

True. But we shouldn't 'rage' about it either.

Shit, haven't seen you in a while. Welcome back. Also, I do agree, the textbooks were already biased. Instead of trying to get the current changes undone, we should scrap the whole thing and begin again.

Thank you. That was the main point I was trying to make.

aaaaaaasd · 03-30-2010 03:25 AM

If only Texas wasn't the main supplier of textbooks in the US.

Rastko · 02-06-2011 09:48 AM

Sometimes, I think you should have just let Confederacy go away. They are shame for every civilized human being.

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