Texas Conservatives Seek Deeper Stamp on Texts

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/us/politics/11texas.html?hp

This article gets more enjoyable with every paragraph.For instance, one guideline requires publishers to include a section on “the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s, including

Comments

[pauldeman2pt0]

What's extra awesome is that my roommate actually posted this article on FB, but in a "Yay! This is great!" kind of way.

My response was as follows:

How is this helpful for anything like, say, health care? It's not. Yes----kudos to anyone who speaks out in support of their beliefs but, with all due respect, K-12 education is not the place for political indoctrination of *any* sort---whether liberal or conservative. The greater concern is that our children lack basic reading and writing skills. And yet, really? Honestly? We need to squabble over whether evolution really happened

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But country and western music is a great cultural achievement.

[mysteena]

Crap like that makes me want to home school.

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Except the vast majority of home schooling textbooks are even worse than that. Almost all the science books are written from a creationist perspective.

[pauldeman2pt0]

If I had children and home schooled, I wouldn't use textbooks. I'd use primary sources.

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Would you bury fossils for them to dig up, just like our Jew masters did?

[awwh_snap]

Even my No-Child-Left-Behind blacklisted high school seems tame compared to this. I mean, they were fucked already, but they still had tons of teachers who gave a real shit with plenty of funding cutbacks. Most of them are going to be retiring and the new generation of teachers and students are going to be screwed to a degree I can't even fathom. Shitty textbooks, shitty schools; livin' the dream.

[sabotabby]

While Texas textbooks are actually kind of huge in other places, including Canada, I for once am glad that our schools are so cash-strapped that we are still mostly using really old textbooks.

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Ones that don't study country & western music as an important cultural phenomenon?