This of course will mean nothing, kids get most of their information from the internet and TV and media culture anyway, and the real world is liberal anyway, so we're just fine.

Good news, good for the school children, good for teachers who don't have to parrot lefty dogma, good for society, because kids will stay in school, instead of getting nauseated and dropping out.

As long as you can accurately describe the NRA in Texas, you can graduate. Maybe even become Govenor.

You mean this Thomas Aquinas, "As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power." Or this one, "Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches."

or dare we talk about his views on sex in school for all those conservative board members, "The desires to live and to procreate are counted by Aquinas among those basic (natural) human values on which all human values are based. However, Aquinas was vehemently opposed to non-procreative sexual activity; not only did this lead him to view masturbation, oral sex, and even coitus interruptus, as being worse than incest and rape, but also he condemned all sexual positions other than the missionary position, on the assumption that they made conception more difficult"

These guys and gals are going to their just deserts with the smart teachers being forced to teach this nonsense (by non-sense I mean that the conservative board members have shown that they could care not for what teachers's have to say, with the exception of the minor few who agree completely with the board, but rather have very openly made decisions based on their personal ethics and morals).

As to the NRA in Texas something tells me they are going to have a limited presence if this tea party stuff and outright anger at government turns into more militia stuff, like it did in the 80's.

Time to start a 'Not Approved Here' campaign, nation-wide, to prevent this propaganda from permeating any other state.
PS: can we include the creation of 95% of America's current total debt by the last three Republican Presidents?

This also means that kids who go to private schools have that much more of an advantage over public school kids. I mean the private schools that have high educational standards not the bullshit private schools that are more about religious propaganda than education.

I'm angry, but also very sad for the children. The board also voted not to allow specific mention in the text of the Hispanics men who died defending the Alamo. Got to keep the John Wayne version alive and well.

"After three days of contentious debate, the conservative-dominated board voted, 10-5, to endorse the changes after rejecting an effort by Hispanic members to specifically mention that Tejanos were among the fallen heroes of the Alamo."

I am kind of confused. Is anti-establishment the same as anti-masturbation or is it anti-establishmentmasturbationers.

Should we just let the South secede;
Perhaps let Texas take the lead?
They don't read much and are proud of it.
Creation science? How they love it.
Like dissing Darwin? I have news:
You still came from primordial ooze.

What is really embarrassing about this is that, since Texas leads the US textbook market because of the sheer number of books purchased, the publishers will make these changes in school textbooks sold all over the United States. Sickening.

What is needed is a boycott of these revisionist books by the rest of the country. Tell your textbook purchasing agency to refuse to buy this crap. Turn the textbook market on its head.

Maybe they need a red-letter edition of Texas school history books.

Nothing wrong with Hayek, per se. Consider “Nor is there any reason why the state should not assist the individuals in providing for those common hazards of life against which, because of their uncertainty, few individuals can make adequate provision. Where, as in the case of sickness and accident, neither the desire to avoid such calamities nor the efforts to overcome their consequences are as a rule weakened by the provision of assistance – where, in short, we deal with genuinely insurable risks – the case for the state’s helping to organize a comprehensive system of social insurance is very strong… Wherever communal action can mitigate disasters against which the individual can neither attempt to guard himself nor make the provision for the consequences, such communal action should undoubtedly be taken,” – The Road To Serfdom (Chapter 9).

This would be the only occasion where I would support book burning.

I'm not too concerned. The blue states will still teach the way they want. 100 years ago, when I was in HS, my history teacher only used our book as an outline because she thought it was too constricting. She was truly an amazing teacher. She would become so animated talking about the most mundane things that her students had no choice but to learn something.

Conservatives favorite past-time....rewriting history to prove/support their batsh*t crazy fantasies

This is good for colleges, now they can just disregard applications from the state of Texas. They can all go to Liberty instead.

Of course the entire conservative movement is based on denial of facts. If you've ever had a conversation with a conservative about Reagan and the debt, you'll know what I mean. I've had a couple absolutely refuse to believe that Reagan blew up the deficit, try and show em facts and they'll say the source is liberal, or something equally stupid. If this country can make it 'til 2030, when whites are not longer the majority, we might make it, but 20 years is a long time.

I did not think people could become any more ignorant.

See? I learned something today.

I learned that I was wrong when I thought people could not become more ignorant.

Show us the way Texas.

Next, the creation of Sarah Palin University; an institution creating a sanctuary for ritualized ignorance.

My daughter routinely comes home with "practice" TAKS tests and worksheets. Nearly every one of them has very poorly written instructions and most have grammar errors as though Bush had a hand in preparing them. Of course Bush handed the contract for all of the TAKS crap to his buddy. Over the years I've had the chance to get to know many public school teachers and have yet to come across one that has defended the TAKS system. Most hate the system.

ignorant religious fanatics fostering their own ignorance and dogmas on school children.. this is the "most advanced" country in the world?? please, what a joke..

then we wonder why American children score more poorly in math and science tests than kids in other modern democracies..

these ignorant people should preach their BS in their homes and churches and leave education to educators -- not usurp it to shove their own outdated dogmas down children's throats.. or pass right-wing ideology for history.. oh brother.. only in America... shame on these ignorant people.. this crap is simply not worthy of a modern nation... "advanced"??? ha ha ha ha.... P-L-E-A-S-E...

Gosh this is a race to the bottom. Nothing like right wing nut ideology injecting guns and relgion into school books. I guess public stonings after school in Texas is next.

texas' high school graduation rate is 61.3% -- 43rd in state ranking.

yep, going for the best and the brightest. this sure seems like an opportunity for a consortium of historians/publishers/printers to provide an alternative. cauase it's not like this issue hasn't been percolating for years.

Cant say Id want to read about Phylis Schafly in a book but I sure would like to munch on a few of her scrumptious fried chicken breasts at a tailgate party.

I agree that Texas should secede (and take a few other states with it). But first we need to have a population exchange , we take all their intelligent, open-minded, and community-minded people, and they get all our racists, bigots, free-market fundies and flat-earthers (there's a nice coalition!). We can start to solve our problems rationally and they can wallow in their self-congratulatory ignorance, until they are re-annexed by Mexico and disappear, string ties and all, into the 3rd world where they seem to want to be. The oil is running out, Tex! Hasta la vista, baby!

So now children get to learn things like "President Jefferson Davis", "Right of Return", "John C Calhoun = American Patriot", "Right to Secede", "Thomas Jefferson, American Traitor", "American founded on Christianity", "Abraham Lincoln just wanted black people to go back to Africa", and all sorts of other drivel.
Thank god my children have all finished high school, because the next few generations are going to be filled with some very ill-informed folks, tainted by Texan "knowledge".

Why is it that school text book publishers have to apply this nonsense to all the states just because Texas is the 2nd largest school system? Isn't there another way? I understand we might want some consistency in our school books but why is it that the rest of the nation has to be subjected to this crap?

Ray Kurzweil has predicted that by 2029 computers will exceed human intelligence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_is_Near.

Apparently that will happen somewhat earlier in Texas.

LOL......

The sad, sad, sad, sad, thing about all this is that I am a Texan. A very proud Texan and a very embarrassed Texan. God, there's so much about the place to love, the people the countryside what have you.But there is so much now for me to hate, such as this.
I am beginning to find it hard to love something that has so many flaws that run all the way down to the core like this.l

In Texas, they don't need no stinkin' book learnin'! Remember the state motto, "Don't mess with Texans minds!"

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