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oh Texas... WTF?
Texas conservatives are at it again. I'll tell you what, I will be scrutinizing any textbooks my kids bring home. this crap is ridiculous.
crazy crazy republicans screw history
crazy crazy republicans screw history
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Permalink Reply by mightyninjamom on -
I've been here for almost three years, and I still don't understand this place.
*sigh* I see a lot of explanations for things coming up.
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Permalink Reply by wookie on -
Who was it that said something about reality having a liberal bias? I'm way underslept.
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Permalink Reply by mcglory13 on -
And this is why my child will not be attending public schools so long as we live in Texas. Well, plus my beef with No Child Left Behind in general, but apparently they're considering overhauling that.
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Permalink Reply by LeastLikely2Breed on -
Glad I'm going to homeschool Peanut -- so I can pump her full of commie pinko bias and have her read Foucault.
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Permalink Reply by CrazyPlateFace on
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I'd heard about that, McG--isn't it going to be called something like "Brown Children Left Behind?"
mcglory13 said:And this is why my child will not be attending public schools so long as we live in Texas. Well, plus my beef with No Child Left Behind in general, but apparently they're considering overhauling that.
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Permalink Reply by Joe Mama on -
bwahahaha!
CrazyPlateFace said:I'd heard about that, McG--isn't it going to be called something like "Brown Children Left Behind?"
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Permalink Reply by bap2 on
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There was a good NYT magazine article about this as well. It's interesting to me because I teach Social Studies/History. Today in class I was talking about secondary source bias. I said, "Your textbooks were written by Americans." Now one of the authors has a Hispanic name and one of my more oppositional students said, "Well he's not American!" They then demanded that I find out anything about this man. Well, I tried looking in the book, I tried the book's website...I tried all my google-fu and I could not find out anything about these authors, save one. It begs some questions to be sure.
I am glad however, that because we are an independent school, we are not required to teach from any one textbook and I can supplement with anything I feel adds value. So we work from primary sources and textbooks from other countries to try to avoid this Texas crap going on.
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Permalink Reply by mcglory13 on
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In Florida public schools it is apparently illegal to tell students that there is more than one version of history. Not sure what the status is here.
Also, CPF, hee. Plus a big sigh.
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Permalink Reply by Piebrothersmomma on -
Excellent!
John T. Capp said:I think they should just show the kids Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. It's totally accurate.
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John T. Capp said:I think they should just show the kids Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. It's totally accurate.
Who's to say we don't? (Hint: We do!)
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Permalink Reply by paperbagshoes on -
I've been here almost 30, and I still don't understand this place.
mightyninjamom said:I've been here for almost three years, and I still don't understand this place.
*sigh* I see a lot of explanations for things coming up.
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