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California Moves To Block Texas' Textbook Changes
eldavojohn writes "Yesterday the Texas textbook controversy was reported internationally but the news today heats up the debate as California, a state on the other side of the political spectrum, introduces legislation that would block these textbook changes inside California. Democrat Senator Leland Yee (you may know him as a senator often tackling ESRB ratings on video games) introduced SB1451, which would require California's school board to review books for any of Texas' changes and block the material if any such are found. The bill's text alleges that said changes would be 'a sharp departure from widely accepted historical teachings' and 'a threat to the apolitical nature of public school governance and academic content standards in California.'"
"I reject your reality and substitute my own." -- Adam Savage
When politicians are involved, everyone loses.
>>>Gotta love the evil conservative hyperbole there.
It's also a mistake to think "conservative" means old fuddy-duddy. Building a nation upon the idea that PEOPLE should rule, not Lords, is anything but conservative. It was so radical an idea that it embroiled America and Europe in revolution for 2 centuries (from the UK revolutions of 1600s through the Napoleonic Wars of the 1800s). I also support the idea of gay marriage or multi-partner marriage. I support doing whatever you want to your own body, including shooting-up drugs and selling your body for sex or temporary indentured servitude. And yet I'm Republican.
Me? Conservative? Hardly. I only call myself "conservative" because you took-away the word "liberal" and used it to describe communism, corporatism, and other top-down tyrannies/monarchies/oligarchies. I am as liberal in my thoughts as Jefferson was, and he was faaar from being an old fuddy-duddy, but I can no longer use that word as Jefferson used it, because it's been redefined. (Think 1984.)
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Not really.
Most of the Founders identified themselves first as Englishmen, and then when their English rights were trampled, by the location of their newly independent States - Virginian, Pennsylvanian, Massachusettsian, and so on. In fact Vermont remained an independent Republic for quite a few years before finally joining the new Union of States.
They viewed themselves the way Member States of the EU view themselves today - first citizens of the State, second of the union.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall