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Title: How does high school produce dumbed-down people? Easy: Republican censorship of
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How does high school produce dumbed-down people? Easy: Republican censorship of textbooks

By doing this, they guarantee populations of truly ignorant people that will vote Repuke all the way. These people vote in ways that jeopardize even their own health. This has been going on since Reagan.

'AUSTIN, Tex. â€” After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathersâ€™ commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light....'

SEE REST OF ARTICLE AT: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.htm...

The Gablers of Texas, strengthened the Repuke strangelhold on history textbook censorship.

http://atheism.about.com/b/2007/08/03/norma-gabler-text...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1797412

From now on her talking point will be that us repukes jeopardize our health, by not voting for the democrats.
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Title: Re: How does high school produce dumbed-down people? Easy: Republican censorship of
Post by: Erasmus on August 23, 2011, 01:08:21 PM: I thought the dumbing down started with the creation of the Department of Education and continued through replacing civics and economics with Condom Use 101.
Title: Re: How does high school produce dumbed-down people? Easy: Republican censorship of
Post by: jukin on August 23, 2011, 01:36:51 PM: I know maybe 20-22 teachers and not a single one is a conservative. In fact, most could be posters on the DUmp.
Title: Re: How does high school produce dumbed-down people? Easy: Republican censorship of
Post by: longview on August 23, 2011, 01:57:19 PM: I thought it was when libs starting re-writing history and successfully lobbying for self esteem classes.

Has anyone else seen a science book lately? You barely have to be able to read and there is minimal content. Look at a section on climate change for hyperbole stated as fact. Read the descriptions beneath photos and graphs of social studies and history books for liberal bias.
Title: Re: How does high school produce dumbed-down people? Easy: Republican censorship of
Post by: cmypay on August 23, 2011, 02:34:54 PM: I thought it was when they started passing every child to meet the No Child Left Behind regs...instead of actually teaching.
Title: Re: How does high school produce dumbed-down people? Easy: Republican censorship of
Post by: NHSparky on August 23, 2011, 02:57:41 PM: Quote from: cmypay on August 23, 2011, 02:34:54 PM
I thought it was when they started passing every child to meet the No Child Left Behind regs...instead of actually teaching.

Oh, trust me. Social promotion has been around LONG before NCLB.
Title: Re: How does high school produce dumbed-down people? Easy: Republican censorship of
Post by: FlaGator on August 23, 2011, 03:10:08 PM: The dumbing down of America began when the libs threw common sense under the bus and replaced it with political correctness when no one was looking.
Title: Re: How does high school produce dumbed-down people? Easy: Republican censorship of
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on August 23, 2011, 09:44:53 PM: I'm concerned that if we stop teaching Darwinism children will grow-up without realizing that liberals are unfit for survival.
Title: Re: How does high school produce dumbed-down people? Easy: Republican censorship of
Post by: MrsSmith on August 23, 2011, 10:14:39 PM: Quote from: longview on August 23, 2011, 01:57:19 PM
I thought it was when libs starting re-writing history and successfully lobbying for self esteem classes.

Has anyone else seen a science book lately? You barely have to be able to read and there is minimal content. Look at a section on climate change for hyperbole stated as fact. Read the descriptions beneath photos and graphs of social studies and history books for liberal bias.
That's nothing new...my kids were taught that styrofoam was killing the earth, and I was taught that we were all gonna freeze to death by...wow, about 11 years ago!! :rofl:
Title: Re: How does high school produce dumbed-down people? Easy: Republican censorship of
Post by: delilahmused on August 24, 2011, 03:15:09 AM: Putting different subject matter or theories...or the truth doesn't dumb down students...teaching to the lowest common denominator does.

Cindie
Title: Re: How does high school produce dumbed-down people? Easy: Republican censorship of
Post by: zeitgeist on August 24, 2011, 06:26:56 AM: Quote from: SGT Snuggle Bunny on August 23, 2011, 09:44:53 PM
I'm concerned that if we stop teaching Darwinism children will grow-up without realizing that liberals are unfit for survival.

Darn good point.
Title: Re: How does high school produce dumbed-down people? Easy: Republican censorship of
Post by: Maxiest on August 24, 2011, 07:43:33 AM: Separation of School and State (http://www.schoolandstate.org)

Anyway, as a poster said above... this all started with the creation of the Department of Education and Federally controlled schooling. The website I linked to goes a little farther than I would although I know where they are coming from. I would just like to see the federal government out of the business. Let each state control its on school system. If you did this it wouldn't be but a matter of time and you would see such a difference in education and production from the Red states vs the Blue states.