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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 07/17/2009 : 02:30:35
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I don't see why the hell not; the TX Jesus freaks are messing with the rest of us and turn about is fair play. Conservative Education ‘Experts' Want Less Lincoln And More Jesus In Texas Textbooks
The Dallas Morning News reported last week that conservative “experts” advising the state of Texas on school curriculum are arguing that the state's social studies and history textbooks are giving “too much attention” to some of U.S. history's most prominent civil rights leaders. David Barton, one of the so-called “experts,” claimed Hispanic labor leader César Chávez “lacks the stature, impact and overall contributions of so many others.” A colleague on the panel agreed, also singling out Thurgood Marshall for exclusion:
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Further down, the plot thins: Barton, a former vice chairman of the Texas Republican Party also insisted on emphasizing “republican” values in Texas' curriculum:
[Barton] said that because the U.S. is a republic rather than a democracy, the proper adjective for identifying U.S. values and processes should be “republican” rather than “democratic.” That means social studies books should discuss “republican” values in the U.S., his report said.
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This is a contradiction in terms; the Republican Party has shown itself to have no values beyond it's grasp for power & control, as this screed clearly demonstrates.
Maybe if we sweeten the deal with Oklahoma and Utah, Mexico will take TX back.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2009 : 07:25:50 [Permalink]
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And that's what it's all about, isn't it. Playing with words to support the GOP's agenda.
In truth, Republic being a form of Democracy, the US are both.
The term 'Democratic values' is however more accurate as such values are shared with other, non-Republican, Democracies. Such as Georgie Bush's allies in the UK. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2009 : 11:30:01 [Permalink]
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A new chair for the Texas state board of education is the same as the old chair. It seems that Governor Perry doesn't understand why McLeroy failed to win confirmation again. The Texas Governor really is crazy, as are so many of the Texas politicians.
On July 10, 2009, Governor Rick Perry (R) named Gail Lowe to chair the Texas state board of education. Lowe replaces Don McLeroy, who failed to win confirmation from the Texas Senate on May 28, 2009. As the Dallas Morning News (July 11, 2009) noted, “Lowe is one of seven Republicans who make up the board's social conservative bloc, which frequently has clashed with Democrats and moderate Republicans. The most recent disagreement came over the treatment of evolution in science standards — with social conservatives arguing for more critical coverage of the topic." In a July 10, 2009, post on its blog, the Texas Freedom Network observed, "It's disappointing that instead of choosing a mainstream conservative who could heal the divisions on the board, the governor once again appointed someone who repeatedly has put political agendas ahead of the education of Texas schoolchildren," adding, "In 2003 and 2009 Ms. Lowe supported dumbing down the state's public school science curriculum by voting to include unscientific, creationist criticisms of evolution in science textbooks and curriculum standards." And in a July 10, 2009, posting on the Houston Chronicle's Evosphere blog, Steven Schafersman of Texas Citizens for Science commented, "Lowe will do what the radical religious right powers want her to do. She will not stop the continuing politicization of public education in Texas by the Fundamentalist Christians who still have positions of power and influence. It will be business as usual, as as usual, public education and the students and teachers of the state will suffer." |
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
Genetic Literacy Project |
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Don't mess with Texas?
