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Hey, if they're so smart why don't they just print their own text books? Maybe then there would be no Texas School Book Depository and JFK would still be alive.... Oh, I get it.
Originally Posted by WillysB
Hey, if they're so smart why don't they just print their own text books? Maybe then there would be no Texas School Book Depository and JFK would still be alive.... Oh, I get it.
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Originally Posted by ergohead
Coincidence?
! ? ! ? ! Conspiracy ! ? ! ? !
Oh my Gawdz... the answer is in the textbooks ! ! ! !
Where's Nicolas Cage....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Inquisition here we come!
The Flat Earthers are taking over
We live in Connecticut, and our 4th grade children have an assignment about the Midwest. They are to include a map showing all 12 Midwestern states and the 5 Great Lakes. Problem is, Lake Ontario stubbornly refuses to move from the Northeast to the Midwest. Much like the planet Pluto, Ontario remains indifferent to the views of it by liberals. We have found no credible map made after 1600 that shows Lake Ontario in the Midwest. Fortunately, we live in one of those liberal enlightened states while the Great Lakes and the Midwest are in flyover country.
Flatearthing isn't reserved to evangelical Christians in Texas. Any coastal liberal would have trouble naming three states in flyover country.
or don't learn. This is the craziest thing I have heard in years! The Texas Board of Education, because Texas buys the most books, decides on what will be included or excluded from your kids textbooks.
This needs to change because these people are nuts!
And you want who exactly to make the decisions on what the kids learn? If we allowed all parents a choice we would never get textbooks made. So these people are chosen to do it for them. What I do not understand is why doesn't each state have it's own company make books for that state? I for 1 remember in 8th grade learning Georgia history I can not imagine a texan was the one that decided what I would and what I would not learn about Georgia history.
Originally Posted by WillysB
! ? ! ? ! Conspiracy ! ? ! ? !
Oh my Gawdz... the answer is in the textbooks ! ! ! !
Where's Nicolas Cage....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by ergohead
No . . no - coincidence happens!
It's a cosmic, like, God thing!
God killed JFK!
People in Texas can prove it.
They were "there", if you catch my drift.
Fighting evil all day long.
OH, I've been there dozens of times, sitting on my bicycle behind the picket fence on the edge of the grassy knoll. Watching the baptists trying to solve the mystery. Mothers walking around, wringing their hands, wailing and gnashing teeth... poor jackie... and that boy. The men, pacing the sidewalks along the street pointing to the location of the limo when the shots rang out, looking for brain parts. Looking up to the sixth floor window, back at the brain parts, holding up their hands, their fingers pointing as if taking aim, looking at the window, back to the blood stains.
Just as they're all getting worked up into a frenzy I aim my bike for take off and shout out...
"I think people educators from all over the country should be making these decisions, a far more diverse group."
Why should someone from Maine or any other state have anything to do with what Texas does? Each state is responsible for its own.
Why should politicians be writing textbooks? These are not historians. History and social studies books should not be skewed toward the right or the left, they should contain factual information. They did not ask for any expert advice on this but are making changes based on their political views. This is a problem and a form of indoctrination. Why is this okay when it is the right who is doing the indoctinating?
This is not Texas history we're talking about. It is social studies and involves world history. That is why a more diverse group of people should've been consulted, not some tea-bagging right-wing politicians. At least this will get people to wake up and get out and vote. Texas has a very large Latino population which these folks want to omit from the history books. Something they'll wish they could take back like the history in these books come election time.
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