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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 would suggest that those "probably largely responsible for most of the failed mortgages" would be the US Government. By forcing banks and lenders to loan money to people without the ability to pay it back or face stiff penalties.
(sarcasm) YAY trying to legislation equal results! (/sarcasm)
You claim that California (pop 36,961,664), Texas (pop 24,782,302), and New York (pop 19,541,453) are the states which define what goes into textbooks.
Entertaining this claim as being true, we see that TWO highly liberal states (California and New York) are also warping what goes into text books.
I'm pretty sure that regardless of which state you were educated in, that 2 is greater than 1, and that 56 million is greater than 25 million.
So what we've got here is Texas moving to remove the liberal bias from the textbooks forced upon them by California and New York. Remember that we have assumed that publishers put bias in the text books to garner favor from these 3 states, ergo the bias that we must conclude is already there, is currently very liberal.
Now, you were saying about Texas being a problem? Its only a problem if you want to maintain the bias. Its not a problem if you want things to be more centrist. We as a nation benefit if Texas gets changes made, and are harmed if California blocks those changes.
"His name was James Damore."
Too bad Canadians don't...
Maxim: People cannot follow directions.
Increases in truth directly with the length of time spent explaining them
And do you seriously believe that textbooks, and/or teachers are neutral ?
How about teaching the truth about evolution ? Not just "it means Jesus is dead", but the real, full truth :
1) you have babies
2) a significant portion of them die*
3) successfull mutations "on average" do better
Somehow I doubt that point 2 is "correctly" represented in those Californian textbooks. The "kill or be killed" part of evolution ... always curiously absent in any such discussion. And the P.S. especially will be considered herecy by democrats :
* any (successfull) attempt to reduce or eliminate the dying part of evolution will immediately cause the population to eat up every last resource. This will in short order (certainly less than 5-10 generations, so perhaps a century) result in the mass-consumption of non-renewable resources, which will, at some point, exhaust anyway, resulting in a mass famine.
How about making it extra super juicy ?
Discuss how this "P.S." detail applies to unemployment benefits and/or national health care, or any form of interference, including government interference, that "equalizes opportunity regardless of genes" ? (ie. discuss how it will affect any population that attempts to equalize opportunity regardless of race)
And the real "burn him at the stake" discussion :
Discuss the ability of congressional laws, or other government policy to change the effects of evolution ? Discuss what will be the consequence of the "... will in very short time exhaust any and all available resources ..." on any population that attempts to follow such laws that attempt to interfere with evolution.