FourScore (1000+ posts) Sat Aug-22-09 12:49 AM
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Texas to revise history textbooks: liberals out, Limbaugh and Gingrich in.
The Texas State Board of Education review committee is preparing to vote on a draft of proposed standards for history textbooks. Noting that the draft has “nothing about liberals,†the Houston Chronicle reported:
The first draft for proposed standards in United States History Studies Since Reconstruction says students should be expected “to identify significant conservative advocacy organizations and individuals, such as Newt Gingrich, Phyllis Schlafly and the Moral Majority.†<...> Others have proposed adding talk show host Rush Limbaugh and the National Rifle Association.
The 15-member committee, stacked with 10 Republicans, is expected to vote along party lines. Earlier this year, a panel of right-wing “experts†produced a report urging the committee to remove biographies of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Stephen F. Austin, and César Chávez, and instead add history about the “motivational role the Bible and the Christian faith played in the settling of the original colonies.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/21/texas-history-gingr...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6366976Wow! They have a biography of Cesar Chavez in there? The grape boycott communist?
What was that textbook panel doing when that trash got in there?
DUmmy Kerrytravelers uses the ever-popular Pittian style of one-word sentences.
It lends powerful gravitas to whatever is written:
Kerrytravelers (1000+ posts) Sat Aug-22-09 12:58 AM
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2. They don't like how history makes them look, so they rewrite and omit. This. Is. Frightening.
wickerwoman (1000+ posts) Sat Aug-22-09 01:00 AM
4. This is soooo what's wrong with America today.
Texas has had a stranglehold on textbook publishing since the early 80s.
When I was in high school (90-94) our textbook stopped before Korea. There was absolutely nothing about the struggle of labor to achieve the 40 hour work week. It was all "so and so was president and then we won this war and then so and so was president and we won that war."
DUmmy wickerwoman should have developed better study habits. The 40-hour week predates the Korean War by several decades.
Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Sat Aug-22-09 01:23 AM
13. It'll be too late to teach the truth to these kids if they don't hear it 'til their twenty.
Any kid that is taught using the textbooks they're proposing is lost for life. They're all gonna grow up to be Dubyas. There's no way they can be reached as adults.
Hawkeye-X (1000+ posts) Sat Aug-22-09 01:16 AM
10. I lived in Texas for 3 months. Then I fled.
Back to my native Colorado, and grateful that I live there. My son will be taught history the way I learned history - through the eyes of a true historian. Mine was Mr. Artenberry - a wonderful, wonderful teacher that was African American and taught us all about Dr. King, Booker Washington, George Washington Carver, Marshall Thurman, and so many more famous people who have made their mark in American history. That, for I am grateful. Thank you, Mr. Artenberry, wherever you are.
Mr. Artenberry was either confused, or a graduate of a historically black college, if he taught DUmmy Hawkeye-X about Marshall Thurman. Now, Thurman Munson was a great catcher, and Nate Thurmond was a great basketball player (both from the great state of Ohio), but Marshall Thurman, if he existed, was a nobody like the DUmmies. There was that Supreme Court Justice named Thurgood something or other, but it couldn't have been him, as he is well known as the Beth Ferrari of the bench.
conflictgirl (1000+ posts) Sat Aug-22-09 01:27 AM
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14. I am unfortunately not surprised
I lived in Texas for 8 years and moved back to Michigan just before my first born was to start kindergarten. There was no way at all that I wanted my kids educated in Texas schools.
It's just great that DUmmy conflictgirl moved with her child back to Michigan, land of opportunity.
The people of Texas mourn the loss of DUmmy conflictgirl and her family.
