Texas Approves Conservative Curriculum 999
Macharius writes "Today, the Texas Board of Education approved 11-4 a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the role of Christianity in American history and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light. The article goes on to mention that Texas's textbook approvals carry less influence than they used to due to digital localization technology, but is that even measurable given how many millions of these textbooks will still be used across the country?"
What? (Score:5, Funny)
"I reject notion of separation of church and state (Score:5, Funny)
“I reject the notion by the left of a constitutional separation of church and state,” said David Bradley, a conservative from Beaumont who works in real estate. “I have $1,000 for the charity of your choice if you can find it in the Constitution.”
Oh boy.
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Re:This debate is Ridiculous! (Score:2, Funny)
Either way young Texas children will still grow up with no idea how many provinces there are in Canada
Zero. Canada is a myth and does not exist.
what language they speak in Egypt
English if they know what's good for 'em, gawd durn it!
or who the president of France is.
Wait. There's an old rhyming mnemonic for this. I see England, I see France, I see President Underpants. Yeah, that's it!
Nice process they used (Score:4, Funny)
There were no historians, sociologists or economists consulted at the meetings, though some members of the conservative bloc held themselves out as experts on certain topics.
Come on, NYT! Why on God's conservative, 10,000-year old earth would legislators consult so-called experts? F*cking New Yorkers have no common sense.
Next up for the TX Board of Education . . . (Score:2, Funny)
Round down the value of Pi to three, like it is in the Bible.
30 day unpaid suspension for teachers using European measurements like millimeters in the classroom.
Add Red Meat Studies to curriculum.
Found Flat Earth Research Institute. Curves of round Earth lead to unclean thoughts. Flat Earth would be easier to navigate around.
Rewrite history so that America won its freedom from the British at the Alamo.
Texas schools to be connected with special filtered internet which only allows access to Conservapedia, foxnews.com, and Amway.com.
Re:Note To Self: (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Note To Self: (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hahahahahah (Score:3, Funny)
What do you think happened to Mr. Goatse?
He heard three words from The Funniest Joke in the World.
Re:Why Texas? (Score:2, Funny)
California is busy vying for the title of 'Most Nanny State' with New York. That's why everything is more expensive here. Public and private space smoking bans, automobile requirements, trash sorting, micromanaged school curriculum, the list goes on and on.
Now go brush your teeth, don't salt your food, and put air in your tires.
Re:Hahahahahah (Score:4, Funny)
Because the English and the Dutch didn't want the Pilgrims, who were troublemaking Puritans.
Really, Europe owes us a debt because we took in most of their religious nutters.
Re:What? (Score:5, Funny)
Creationists always try to use the second law,
to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw.
The second law is quite precise about where it applies,
only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.
The earth's not a closed system, it's powered by the sun,
so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun!
MC Hawking, Entropy
Re:Anonymous Coward (Score:4, Funny)
I thought that Jefferson and the other founding fathers were in favor of acceleration of independence not deceleration.
Re:digital localisation (Score:5, Funny)
Obligatory Family Guy [mojvideo.com] clip.
Letter to Mexio (Score:2, Funny)
Dear Mexico (no one is particular, just all of Mexico),
Please come pick your child up, like right now, he's being a pain in the ass and the other kids in the playground, except Alaska, want him to shut up. Please come get your child, because we're tired of dealing with him for the last 100 years (take New Mexico too, he gets uppity sometimes too, we'd like to keep Arizona).
Sincerely,
New England
Re:Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny)
You know him, the AUTHOR of the DECELERATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
I know our liberties aren't what they used to be, and I thought that they were eroding faster than ever, but I'm definitely going to start calling them the deceleration of Independence.