TX Board of Education removes Thomas Jefferson from txtbooks
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though i don't care about the last one since we ARE a constitutional republic...
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/12/tex ... textbooks/
Texas Board of Education cuts Thomas Jefferson out of its textbooks.
The Texas Board of Education has been meeting this week to revise its social studies curriculum. During the past three days, “the board’s far-right faction wielded their power to shape lessons on the civil rights movement, the U.S. free enterprise system and hundreds of other topics”:
– To avoid exposing students to “transvestites, transsexuals and who knows what else,” the Board struck the curriculum’s reference to “sex and gender as social constructs.”
– The Board removed Thomas Jefferson from the Texas curriculum, “replacing him with religious right icon John Calvin.”
– The Board refused to require that “students learn that the Constitution prevents the U.S. government from promoting one religion over all others.”
– The Board struck the word “democratic” from the description of the U.S. government, instead terming it a “constitutional republic.”
As the nation’s second-largest textbook market, Texas has enormous leverage over publishers, who often “craft their standard textbooks based on the specs of the biggest buyers.” Indeed, as The Washington Monthly has reported, “when it comes to textbooks, what happens in Texas rarely stays in Texas.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/12/tex ... textbooks/
Texas Board of Education cuts Thomas Jefferson out of its textbooks.
The Texas Board of Education has been meeting this week to revise its social studies curriculum. During the past three days, “the board’s far-right faction wielded their power to shape lessons on the civil rights movement, the U.S. free enterprise system and hundreds of other topics”:
– To avoid exposing students to “transvestites, transsexuals and who knows what else,” the Board struck the curriculum’s reference to “sex and gender as social constructs.”
– The Board removed Thomas Jefferson from the Texas curriculum, “replacing him with religious right icon John Calvin.”
– The Board refused to require that “students learn that the Constitution prevents the U.S. government from promoting one religion over all others.”
– The Board struck the word “democratic” from the description of the U.S. government, instead terming it a “constitutional republic.”
As the nation’s second-largest textbook market, Texas has enormous leverage over publishers, who often “craft their standard textbooks based on the specs of the biggest buyers.” Indeed, as The Washington Monthly has reported, “when it comes to textbooks, what happens in Texas rarely stays in Texas.”
don't compete; coexist
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when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
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Just wow.
and those buffoons in texas wonder why they never get any pearl jam shows...
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
The Gov. here only talks that way when it's election time.
No shit. What are they going to do, rewrite history? Kind of the way gwb rewrote the constitution, or rather ignored the constitution.
"what a long, strange trip it's been"
pearl jam doesn't even know it's there anymore
i looked up why they eliminated jefferson and unfortunately i don't read batshit crazy...why is jefferson bad now?
no offense to you personally in my prior post...
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
i wonder how texas will explain it when the first kid says "who is that guy on mount rushmore between washington and theodore roosevelt??"
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Take florida as well
Instead they wanted a more globalist view and wanted to make america look bad.
Id be willing to bet some kind of deal was struck as far as Thomas Jefferson goes.
:roll: :roll: :roll: . Yeah i can see the band saying " Yeah let's not play in texas because of this latest decision on Textbooks." :crazy: :crazy:
Seriously -- why broadbrush everyone in this state with these idiots? It's bad enough I have to live around them without being grouped as one of them. Got it BUFFOON ??!!
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
don't worry, everyone knows Austin is an exception
what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
do you have links? because the thinkprogress gave links which included the AP
what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
As far as seceding -- i would never want that and would move if it occured.... but if it did happen I believe the U.S. would be hurt more than this state would since we have the 2nd largest economy in the nation and rank #15 in the world. As a whole, Texas is a "tax donor state" with Texans receiving back approximately $0.94 per every dollar of federal income taxes collected in 2005.[9] I'm guessing the oil refineries might raise their rates for out of Texas sales as well
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Texas
OK, I'm gonna have to take issue with you on that one. To compare LBJ, the archtect of the Great Society, who signed into law Medicare and the Voting Rights Act, to Chimpy McCodpiece, who single handedly ran this country into the ground, is a bit over the top. LBJ got us into Vietnam, true, but at least that was only ONE bad war. Chimpy got us into two.
As far as Texas, let's also remember that the state gave us such liberal minds as Bill Moyers, Jim Hightower, and Molly Ivins.
what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Yes, be VERY afraid. He's even worse than dubya, and I wouldn't have thought that possible.
That being said, I want to reply to some of the "bashers" of Texas. Granted I live in Austin - which is by far the best city I have ever lived in as far as people, music, environmental concerns and natural beauty goes. I've lived in big cities, small cities, on both coasts and in between. I chose to live in Austin and am glad I did.
Texas, as a state, has a lot going for it - conservative spending, cutting edge technology, strong economy and lots of creative juices emanating from Austin. And, Texans have big hearts. I've dealt with people from Dallas and Houston by phone on all your general "life" type issues and found them to be far more helpful and concerned than say people I dealt with on some of the same issues in places like Atlanta where the power structure is as ignorant as they come.
As for the religious right and the ultra-conservatives making ridiculous rules like taking Jefferson out of history books, what I've seen happen over the past couple of years I've been here is that eventually reason takes over and these archaic rulings are overturned. It doesn't help that we have a Governor who's obviously had a lobotomy.
There are a LOT of bright minds here, but the entrenchment of BIG money and far-right zealots has existed for a very long time. Hopefully one day their influcence will wane. I know I absolutely love the lifestyle and the people I've come to know here in Austin. Perhaps one day Austin's philosophical style can influence the power brokers in the rest of the state. Change occurs slowly. And Texas is one big ass state!
Mohandas K. Gandhi
~I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulette I could have worn.~
Henry David Thoreau
Problem is Texas is becoming more backwards everyday.
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/12/tex ... textbooks/
Texas Board of Education cuts Thomas Jefferson out of its textbooks.
The Texas Board of Education has been meeting this week to revise its social studies curriculum. During the past three days, “the board’s far-right faction wielded their power to shape lessons on the civil rights movement, the U.S. free enterprise system and hundreds of other topics”:
– To avoid exposing students to “transvestites, transsexuals and who knows what else,” the Board struck the curriculum’s reference to “sex and gender as social constructs.”...[/quote]
how about avoid exposing the kids to bigots..is that anywhere in the curriculum????
some good things do come out of TX though...
take a good look
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