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Texas Approves Conservative Curriculum
Macharius writes "Today, the Texas Board of Education approved 11-4 a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the role of Christianity in American history and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light. The article goes on to mention that Texas's textbook approvals carry less influence than they used to due to digital localization technology, but is that even measurable given how many millions of these textbooks will still be used across the country?"
They have books in Texas?
“I reject the notion by the left of a constitutional separation of church and state,” said David Bradley, a conservative from Beaumont who works in real estate. “I have $1,000 for the charity of your choice if you can find it in the Constitution.”
Oh boy.
Reminds me of the old (ooooooooooooooooolllllllllllddddddd) textbook my calculus teacher has that managed to sneak through Texas book approval. It had four graphs printed right next to each other, the first of which was a step function, the second a parabola, the third was 2 sqrt functions forming a right-facing parabola, and the last was a right facing absolute function. This was the first time the graphs had been printed in color, too, so the *ahem* naughty word really popped.
Either way young Texas children will still grow up with no idea how many provinces there are in Canada
Zero. Canada is a myth and does not exist.
what language they speak in Egypt
English if they know what's good for 'em, gawd durn it!
or who the president of France is.
Wait. There's an old rhyming mnemonic for this. I see England, I see France, I see President Underpants. Yeah, that's it!
There were no historians, sociologists or economists consulted at the meetings, though some members of the conservative bloc held themselves out as experts on certain topics.
Come on, NYT! Why on God's conservative, 10,000-year old earth would legislators consult so-called experts? F*cking New Yorkers have no common sense.
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
Round down the value of Pi to three, like it is in the Bible.
30 day unpaid suspension for teachers using European measurements like millimeters in the classroom.
Add Red Meat Studies to curriculum.
Found Flat Earth Research Institute. Curves of round Earth lead to unclean thoughts. Flat Earth would be easier to navigate around.
Rewrite history so that America won its freedom from the British at the Alamo.
Texas schools to be connected with special filtered internet which only allows access to Conservapedia, foxnews.com, and Amway.com.
Speaking from personal experience let me say that yes, education in Texas is substandard. Unless that standard is Mississippi.
"I guess the moral of the story is, don't paint your airship with rocket fuel." -- Addison Bain
If only what happens in Texas were like what happens in Vegas.
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
What do you think happened to Mr. Goatse?
He heard three words from The Funniest Joke in the World.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
California is busy vying for the title of 'Most Nanny State' with New York. That's why everything is more expensive here. Public and private space smoking bans, automobile requirements, trash sorting, micromanaged school curriculum, the list goes on and on.
Now go brush your teeth, don't salt your food, and put air in your tires.
Because the English and the Dutch didn't want the Pilgrims, who were troublemaking Puritans.
Really, Europe owes us a debt because we took in most of their religious nutters.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
I thought that Jefferson and the other founding fathers were in favor of acceleration of independence not deceleration.
Obligatory Family Guy clip.
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Dear Mexico (no one is particular, just all of Mexico),
Please come pick your child up, like right now, he's being a pain in the ass and the other kids in the playground, except Alaska, want him to shut up. Please come get your child, because we're tired of dealing with him for the last 100 years (take New Mexico too, he gets uppity sometimes too, we'd like to keep Arizona).
Sincerely,
New England
You know him, the AUTHOR of the DECELERATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
I know our liberties aren't what they used to be, and I thought that they were eroding faster than ever, but I'm definitely going to start calling them the deceleration of Independence.