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?"

Comments

What?

[Tr3vin]

They have books in Texas?

Re:What?

[StDoodle]

Creationists always try to use the second law,
to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw.
The second law is quite precise about where it applies,
only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.
The earth's not a closed system, it's powered by the sun,
so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun!

MC Hawking, Entropy

"I reject notion of separation of church and state

[Anonymous Coward]

“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.

Inappropriate Textbooks

[ChaosCon]

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.

Nice process they used

[Infonaut]

From the article:

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.

Re:Note To Self:

[Bemopolis]

Speaking from personal experience let me say that yes, education in Texas is substandard. Unless that standard is Mississippi.

Re:Hahahahahah

[Nimey]

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.

Re:Anonymous Coward

[riverat1]

I thought that Jefferson and the other founding fathers were in favor of acceleration of independence not deceleration.

Re:digital localisation

[dgatwood]

Obligatory Family Guy clip.