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Conservative Textbook Curriculum Passes Final Vote In Texas
suraj.sun sends in a followup to a story we've been following about the Texas Board of Education's efforts to put a more political spin on some of their state's textbooks. From the Dallas Morning News:
"In a landmark move that will shape the future education of millions of Texas schoolchildren, the State Board of Education on Friday approved new curriculum standards for US history and other social studies courses that reflect a more conservative tone than in the past. Split along party lines, the board delivered a pair of 9-5 votes to adopt the new standards, which will dictate what is taught in all Texas schools and provide the basis for future textbooks and student achievement tests over the next decade. Texas standards often wind up being taught in other states because national publishers typically tailor their materials to Texas, one of the biggest textbook purchasers in the country. Approval came after the GOP-dominated board approved a new curriculum standard that would encourage high school students to question the legal doctrine of church-state separation — a sore point for social conservative groups who disagree with court decisions that have affirmed the doctrine, including the ban on school-sponsored prayer."
Dunderheaded inbred fucking morons? Why are you being so polite to those goddamn piece of shit cum-stains on humanity who would regress us back into the dark ages due to a selfish, head-up-their-haemorrhoid-filled-assholes mentality?
Always proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
It's one thing to disagree politically, but the amount of bigotry on display in this discussion is really distressing.
"A bigot is a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices. The correct use of the term requires the elements of obstinacy, irrationality, and animosity toward those of differing opinion."
Any bigots are welcome to reply as to how they are totally justified in displaying their ugliness to the world.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
"rewriting history" is just accusation against someone that doesn't believe your incorrect version of history. The federal government doesn't get to say what history is, neither do you.
Hey, Chu is a smart, scientific guy.
(T>t && O(n)--) == sqrt(666)
Somebody like you would not understand but for the benefit of other readers this is what the tea party stands for: http://www.thecontract.org/support/ Vote out anybody who doesn't support it.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
Those who haven't been brainwashed see it differently.
That's right. We proud conservatives who have not been brainwashed know that:
o 2 + 2 = 5
o Freedom = Slavery
o War = Peace
o We have always been at war with Arabia
o Ronald Reagan set America on the proud path to freedom
o God created the USA 6000 years ago and created English as the holy language. All the other countries are full of darkies, furr'nurs and lib'ruls.
Hallelujah!
No, it doesn't go both ways, unless perhaps you have evidence of an entire fucking state adopting a liberal slanted curriculum such as you describe? Thought not, that shit only happens in your fantasies. There is no parity. It is not 'tit for tat.' You can't excuse your side's behavior by drawing false parallels to the other side.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Leftwing, rightwing, socialist, fascist, it's not the labels that matter - totalitarianism by any name is evil.
The government shouldn't contol how much water my toilet uses when I flush. When we allow the government to become this intrusive into the most private areas of our lives, we've accepted totalitarianism.
The government simply should not be an instrument of social policy. The few instances where gocernments have done good are drowned in history by the instances where government has done evil when ceded control on this scale.
Should the government conrol how much salt we put in our foods? How much carbon we emit? How much sugary soda we drink? Just because a behavior has a social cost doesn't give the government the right to intrude, because totalitarianism by any name is evil.
It amazes me that the same Slashdotters that rebel against stupidity of Internet filtering or the DMCA seem accepting of a government that controls how much water a toilet uses when it flushes, or placing high taxes on unhealthy items, despite the fact that it is wrong for all the same reasons. Central control of our lives is simply not right. Yes, people will do stupid things and you'll have to pay a little more because of it freedom is worth more than that.
We have created a nation in which there are so many laws controlling personal behavior that no one could possibly learn them all, or keep up with the rate they change, and yet people are still arguing for more! I don't care what lables are apropriate enough is enough - let people get on with their lives even if you think they're doing it wrong!
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Well the US is obviously more innovative than Europe by any measure (take computer technology, biotechonlogy, medicine, count Nobel prizes in any technical field). As to why, my intuitive feeling (no I don't have hard data) is that there is more incentive to innovate in a system where the material rewards are greater and you don't have to pay 60% of your income to the government as you do in many European countries. Also, the higher education system in the US is much better mostly because the top universities are private and subject to market competition while in many European countries higher education is fully government controlled (Germany for example, which I think is why it has gone down so dramatically in physics and other fields). On the other hand, the US system is worse at the lower end, and better at the high end, but it is the high end where innovation comes from. Just my opinion but I am looking forward to hearing any alternative theories why the US has had a huge lead in science and technological innovation over Europe since the war even though Europe as a whole has a larger population and a great tradition in science.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
Liberals accept science. Science is reality. Conservatives do not. So you could either say that liberals have a reality bias, or that reality has a liberal bias. Conservatives have a bias against reality, or vice versa. The KKK were not little angels protecting the way of life for southerners, and science is true, based on elaborate logical underpinnings. Bias is a relative thing, and not always a bad thing when talking about a bias towards or against things that are as true as we can possibly achieve.
Where is the mod rating for "scary"? Also,
That's probably because the curriculum is already comfortably biased towards liberalism. I stand behind this bias 100% (when faced with the alternative), but I have no trouble admitting it exists.
For example, separation of church and state? A bias against good ol' fashioned Christian values. We are discriminating against their beliefs that they should be allowed to push their beliefs on our children.
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.