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Mar 16, 2010
11:16am
After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers’ commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light.
(via skaldsong)
WTF? Really?! Man, its things like this that make me really REALLY frakking sick to be an intelligent human being in this country. Seems like propaganda, bigotry and and no respect for the actual past are far to pervasive these days.
It’s crap like this that would make me, if I had children, home school them. This is ridiculous…absolutely frightening if you ask me. If you can’t trust the public school system to properly educate, well then. We’re screwed arnt we? (And hey, even ~I~ was skeptical about it when I was going through the whole public system, and it has only gotten worse. Makes me so upset to see politics and moral dogma affecting education so much)
Glad I live in the northwest…still got some “hippies” up here i guess
This is disgusting and offensive and awful because these changes represent every lie about American history and American ideology that I hate. But then, Texas doesn’t speak for me and never has. Texas doesn’t necessarily speak for everyone in Texas. As ugly as this news is, do keep it in perspective.
I vote we start emergency air-lifting thousands of Howard Zinn books to these kids but that’s just me.
EDIT FOR CLARITY: My own opinions aside, the fact that these books are LYING is the reason they piss me off, not necessarily because they don’t adhere to my perspective. Americans (adults and most especially kids) should have access to objective information.
I am reblogging this mainly because I couldn’t reblog the continuation of this conversation Dorian. I need to respond to where you said, “Texas doesn’t get to dictate the direction of all political discourse and educational standards in America and this article only pertains to Texas, so don’t throw your hands up and say “all is lost, we’re all doomed” just yet.”
Hurm. That’s not precisely true. Unfortunately, Texas has a position of being able to do just that, by way of being the leader in textbook production and distribution. They change what is written in History and Social Studies textbooks printed here, and because of the gigantic print run, other districts in other states, especially poor ones, end up having identical course curriculums and materials. That means from Oregon to Massachusetts, there could possibly be children learning huge amounts about John Calvin, while almost nothing of Thomas Jefferson. There are so many things on the list of changes, it really is disturbing.
The silver lining: None of this has been ratified. They are leaving it open for a “public comment period”, I suppose in the hopes of approval. I hope people start writing some seriously outraged yet intelligent letters..
But most likely this will all be met with apathy, I fear.
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After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers’ commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light.
(via skaldsong)
WTF? Really?! Man, its things like this that make me really REALLY frakking sick to be an intelligent human being in this country. Seems like propaganda, bigotry and and no respect for the actual past are far to pervasive these days.
It’s crap like this that would make me, if I had children, home school them. This is ridiculous…absolutely frightening if you ask me. If you can’t trust the public school system to properly educate, well then. We’re screwed arnt we? (And hey, even ~I~ was skeptical about it when I was going through the whole public system, and it has only gotten worse. Makes me so upset to see politics and moral dogma affecting education so much)
Glad I live in the northwest…still got some “hippies” up here i guess
This is disgusting and offensive and awful because these changes represent every lie about American history and American ideology that I hate. But then, Texas doesn’t speak for me and never has. Texas doesn’t necessarily speak for everyone in Texas. As ugly as this news is, do keep it in perspective.
I vote we start emergency air-lifting thousands of Howard Zinn books to these kids but that’s just me.
EDIT FOR CLARITY: My own opinions aside, the fact that these books are LYING is the reason they piss me off, not necessarily because they don’t adhere to my perspective. Americans (adults and most especially kids) should have access to objective information.
I am reblogging this mainly because I couldn’t reblog the continuation of this conversation Dorian. I need to respond to where you said, “Texas doesn’t get to dictate the direction of all political discourse and educational standards in America and this article only pertains to Texas, so don’t throw your hands up and say “all is lost, we’re all doomed” just yet.”
Hurm. That’s not precisely true. Unfortunately, Texas has a position of being able to do just that, by way of being the leader in textbook production and distribution. They change what is written in History and Social Studies textbooks printed here, and because of the gigantic print run, other districts in other states, especially poor ones, end up having identical course curriculums and materials. That means from Oregon to Massachusetts, there could possibly be children learning huge amounts about John Calvin, while almost nothing of Thomas Jefferson. There are so many things on the list of changes, it really is disturbing.
The silver lining: None of this has been ratified. They are leaving it open for a “public comment period”, I suppose in the hopes of approval. I hope people start writing some seriously outraged yet intelligent letters..
But most likely this will all be met with apathy, I fear.
