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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 01/21/2010 : 03:53:32
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Their State Board of Education must be the lamest in the country. They don't care about providing a quality education; rather they want to turn their students, and by extension, everyone else's students, into effigies of their own ignorant selves.
Texas Social Studies Curriculum: Out With Civil Rights Leaders, In With Phyllis Schlafly And Joseph McCarthy
For months, the Texas State Board of Education has been hearing from “experts” about the direction of the state’s social studies curriculum and textbook standards. The advice to the 15-member board — which is composed of 10 Republicans — has included more references to Christianity, fewer mentions of civil rights leaders, George Wasington, and Abraham Lincoln.
On Thursday and Friday last week, the State Board of Education took up these recommendations in a lengthy, heated debate. Some highlights of what the Republican-leaning board ended up deciding, and the debates that went on:
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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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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
 Posted - 01/21/2010 : 04:47:18 [Permalink]
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 01/21/2010 : 05:10:42 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
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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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ThorGoLucky
Snuggle Wolf
USA
1487 Posts |
Posted - 01/22/2010 : 08:34:26 [Permalink]
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Nice sign, Mooner. 
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 01/23/2010 : 02:16:45 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by ThorGoLucky
Nice sign, Mooner.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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They're trying to build them dumb in Texas.
