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.”
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Wow.
Just wow.Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V0 -
It still pisses me off that a single state's bureaucracy that just happens to be dominated by right wing buffoons can dictate to the rest of us what can be taught to our kids."It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go." - Neil Gaiman, "Stardust"0
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exactly...texas should not be able to dictate to anyone what should and should not be taught. they take out jefferson but i bet they spend 2 weeks on sam houston, and 3 on the stupid alamo, and throw god in there when talking about the american revolution, because it was god's idea wasn't it???...weren't they talking about seceding from the union again last year??Starfall wrote:It still pisses me off that a single state's bureaucracy that just happens to be dominated by right wing buffoons can dictate to the rest of us what can be taught to our kids.
and those buffoons in texas wonder why they never get any pearl jam shows..."You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."0 -
gimmesometruth27 wrote:...weren't they talking about seceding from the union again last year??
The Gov. here only talks that way when it's election time.
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Starfall wrote:It still pisses me off that a single state's bureaucracy that just happens to be dominated by right wing buffoons can dictate to the rest of us what can be taught to our kids.
No shit. What are they going to do, rewrite history? Kind of the way gwb rewrote the constitution, or rather ignored the constitution.fuck 'em if they can't take a joke
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Would anybody REALLY miss Texas?Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V0
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keeponrockin wrote:Would anybody REALLY miss Texas?
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?0 -
LOL nice one!Shawshank wrote:gimmesometruth27 wrote:...weren't they talking about seceding from the union again last year??
The Gov. here only talks that way when it's election time.
no offense to you personally in my prior post..."You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
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i am not sure what he did to be eliminated. i remember last week a few people on here were saying how great he was...is it because he is on the $2 bill? anyone remember the old saying "queer as a 2 dollar bill"?norm wrote:keeponrockin wrote:Would anybody REALLY miss Texas?
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?
i wonder how texas will explain it when the first kid says "who is that guy on mount rushmore between washington and theodore roosevelt??""You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
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let them breakaway and start their own theocracy.
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Sure is funny how Thinkprogress conveniently are spinning this one. They didn't say anything about how the board members on the left wanted the State Board of Education to remove the Chritmas Holliday in a section on culture for 6t graders and add Diwali, a Hindu festival. Also they wanted no mention of any of the founding Farthers, The constitution, The Bill of rights,Capitaliism or free enterprise.
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.0 -
Amazing how history is re-written.0
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gimmesometruth27 wrote:and those buffoons in texas wonder why they never get any pearl jam shows...
: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:0 -
gimmesometruth27 wrote:
exactly...texas should not be able to dictate to anyone what should and should not be taught. they take out jefferson but i bet they spend 2 weeks on sam houston, and 3 on the stupid alamo, and throw god in there when talking about the american revolution, because it was god's idea wasn't it???...weren't they talking about seceding from the union again last year??Starfall wrote:It still pisses me off that a single state's bureaucracy that just happens to be dominated by right wing buffoons can dictate to the rest of us what can be taught to our kids.
and those buffoons in texas wonder why they never get any pearl jam shows...
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 ??!!0 -
sorry, but i could do without texas and the backwards ass thinking of the people in power there that are affecting what my kids might learn in school.. not to mention, this is the state that gave us LBJ and GWB...as far as i'm concerned, they can secede and deal with their problems on their own. i can't be bothered with them...flywallyfly wrote:gimmesometruth27 wrote:
exactly...texas should not be able to dictate to anyone what should and should not be taught. they take out jefferson but i bet they spend 2 weeks on sam houston, and 3 on the stupid alamo, and throw god in there when talking about the american revolution, because it was god's idea wasn't it???...weren't they talking about seceding from the union again last year??Starfall wrote:It still pisses me off that a single state's bureaucracy that just happens to be dominated by right wing buffoons can dictate to the rest of us what can be taught to our kids.
and those buffoons in texas wonder why they never get any pearl jam shows...
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 ??!!"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."0 -
so what is wrong with our kids being more worldly? we can not continue to go generation after generation telling our kids how america is the greatest thing since sliced bread when we clearly have skeletons in our closet that we should not be proud of. you forget that in 25 years white people will be a minority, so why not expose the kids to customs of other countries? what is wrong with a globalist view? god forbid we raise more well rounded kids that are considerate of other people in this world. WE do not own the world, got it?prfctlefts wrote:Sure is funny how Thinkprogress conveniently are spinning this one. They didn't say anything about how the board members on the left wanted the State Board of Education to remove the Chritmas Holliday in a section on culture for 6t graders and add Diwali, a Hindu festival. Also they wanted no mention of any of the founding Farthers, The constitution, The Bill of rights,Capitaliism or free enterprise.
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."You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."0 -
i'm not the first one to have said it. look back at threads from 2 years ago.prfctlefts wrote:gimmesometruth27 wrote:and those buffoons in texas wonder why they never get any pearl jam shows...
: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:"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."0 -
flywallyfly wrote:gimmesometruth27 wrote:
exactly...texas should not be able to dictate to anyone what should and should not be taught. they take out jefferson but i bet they spend 2 weeks on sam houston, and 3 on the stupid alamo, and throw god in there when talking about the american revolution, because it was god's idea wasn't it???...weren't they talking about seceding from the union again last year??Starfall wrote:It still pisses me off that a single state's bureaucracy that just happens to be dominated by right wing buffoons can dictate to the rest of us what can be taught to our kids.
and those buffoons in texas wonder why they never get any pearl jam shows...
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 ??!!
don't worry, everyone knows Austin is an exception don't compete; coexist
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
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i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'0 -
prfctlefts wrote:Sure is funny how Thinkprogress conveniently are spinning this one. They didn't say anything about how the board members on the left wanted the State Board of Education to remove the Chritmas Holliday in a section on culture for 6t graders and add Diwali, a Hindu festival. Also they wanted no mention of any of the founding Farthers, The constitution, The Bill of rights,Capitaliism or free enterprise.
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.
do you have links? because the thinkprogress gave links which included the APdon't compete; coexist
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'0 -
I wonder if this is the same Board that I saw a piece on TV about......that plan was to NOT teach any U.S. history prior to 1870....as we all know....nothing important happened before then. :ugeek:All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.0
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