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California might need to worry more about California than what is happening in Texas. There has to be a reason people are fleeing the state in droves...and moving to Texas.
California is worrying about themselves making sure that this nonsensical Texas version of history doesn't infect California.
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Originally Posted by TexasReb
Huh? Can you be more specific?
So what is wrong with calling it what it was? Africans sold their own into slavery, in the U.S. the northern slave traders imported them, and rum figured into it someway as well! It WAS a triangular consideration.
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I don't think the most historically sicnificant point about history was that the slaves traveled in a triangular path. Are you seriously suggesting it was ?
One has to wonder how this would go down if it were a state such as Mass. or California deliberately adding a more Liberal slant or PC edition to their state's respective textbooks. I would imagine the OP's tone would change completely.
I have to say, although I am usually a state's rights kind of guy, this is exhibit A for why we should have a national curriculum - administered by a politically detached office - governing our education system. Textbooks should cover both sides of an issue and be written by teachers and professional historians.
Nope absolutely not. If that were the case there would be the possibility that something so ridiculous as this could infect the entire country. Let them keep this nonsense in Texas and away from the rest of us...
This whole kerfuffle is the work of a handful of lame duck religious right fundies on the state school board who will be gone shortly. Their control-freak personalities won't allow them to leave quietly.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank them for bringing the lunacy of their agenda front and center on the public stage. This only serves to enlighten the public on the dangers of blending religion with government. Their agenda is much more dangerous when it remains hidden.
Do us a favor and tell us about who was on the board before This whole kerfuffle is the work of a handful of lame duck religious right fundies.
Also show us THEIR political affiliations.
To JD
"California is worrying about themselves making sure that this nonsensical Texas version of history doesn't infect California.'
Please enlighten us, There is NO requirement that CA buy these books. They are free to have their own published or they can but from anyone else they want.
I wonder if you've EVER bothered to actually read the amendments or are relying on misleading information that has been regurgitated for you?
Here's an example of the misleading sophistry from the Left;
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The new standards say that the McCarthyism of the 1950s was later vindicated -- something most historians deny --...
Here is what the text actual says;
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The students are required to "describe how McCarthyism, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), the arms race, and the space race increased Cold War tensions and how the later release of the Venona Papers confirmed suspicions of communist infiltration in U.S. government..."
Love it. About time we started to take back what was ours in the first place. Namely more Conservative ideals especially where are children are concerned. I HAD to learn about evolution back in high school and hated it. I hear all the time of how we shouldn't "make children say the Pledge of Allegiance", or the such. What's really funny is how OUR educational system has finally shifted to the right after years of being on the left. Guess Texans have had enough of what passed for education in the past. Yippeee!
Yes, Texas got tired of the past brainwashing and dumbing down of our children, over the past 20 years of Progressive involvement and trying to erase the US Constitution.
Cynthia Dunbar, a lawyer from Richmond who is a strict constitutionalist and thinks the nation was founded on Christian beliefs, managed to cut Thomas Jefferson from a list of figures whose writings inspired revolutions in the late 18th century and 19th century, replacing him with St. Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and William Blackstone. (Jefferson is not well liked among conservatives on the board because he coined the term “separation between church and state.”) Texas Conservatives Win Vote on Textbook Standards - NYTimes.com
Dunbar should change the spelling of her name to Dumbar. What a sorry state of affairs when you give idiots like this a say in educational issues.
Someone needs to take back our Math and English curriculums now.
You can thank the illegal alien and anchor baby kids, for that.
They have flat ruined our elementary schools here in Austin.
The teachers spend way too much time getting the illegals and anchor babies up to speed, it cause our children to be way behind also.
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