No, I mean a website with a piece-by-piece grade-appropriate lesson covering each of the bullshit changes. Problem being that younger kids would have a problem with reading two different variants, but at least at high school they oughtta be able to handle it.
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"...because everyone is ugly as sin, when you rip away their skin."
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Beware the Plutocrat Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.
Teaching US history from the perspective of Texasshats?
And just how would they view the reign of LBJ?
And now that this has occurred, those that will rely upon the Texass Textbook Commission (or whatever) will have the same stinkin' outdated textbooks sitting in their classrooms for decades to come. You see, once updated like this, there isn't really a need to do so for decades, because everybody knows that history does not change.
What I'd like to see out of this is that the Texass School Board decision on history textbooks become the standard for all other states...of what NOT to buy.
Contact your school district today. Ask that they not buy into the anti-learning propaganda agenda of the Texass School Board. Inform them that you would consider using the Texass decision as a guideline for purchase as a willful violation of their fiduciary and moral responsibilities.
Send all the books back to the Texas Schoolbook Depository. Wait...
Sure, it's a perfectly cromulent phrase. The problem is using it to eradicate any reference to the "slave trade". The prospect of "Antlantic triangular trade" awkwardly repeated over and over for want a viable alternate alone gives me shpilkes in my genecktigazoink.
The Texas Board of Education wants to refer to the slave trade as the "Atlantic triangular trade".
Oh yes because trying to hide the slave trade by labeling all those people as nothing more than everyday traded good, like tobacco or jewels, totally says "We aren't racist at all."
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Beware the Plutocrat Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.
Originally Posted by Texas Textbooks: What happened
One goal of the board’s far-right faction was the whitewashing of Joseph McCarthy, so they required the teaching of historical material that they believe (wrongly) shows he was vindicated. The board dropped labor and civil rights leaders Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta; and took out Ted Kennedy and Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina on the U.S. Supreme Court. References to the slave trade were replaced with “triangular trade.” Right-wing advisors to the board wanted them to drop Thurgood Marshall, the historic civil rights lawyer and Supreme Court justice, but Marshall made the cut.
Wow, that's a nice combination of leftover guilt and racism there. Although I doubt they think they are being racist at all, they are just erasing past mistakes and cleaning up the family tree a bit. Who's Joseph McCarthy? He's that uncle we don't talk about, besides they proved that was all a kenyan communist plot, so Shh!
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Originally Posted by 'Crazy ol' bat' Phyllis Schlafly
Schoolchildren will no longer be misled into believing that capitalism and the free market are dirty words and that America has an unjust economic system. Instead, they will learn how the free-enterprise system gave our nation and the world so much that is good for so many people.
How's that working out for ya? Now explain to the school children why they can't go to the beach because of the toxic rotting animals washing up on the shore. Go free market!
I just listened to a great NPR/American Radio Works documentary called The Great Textbook War. New textbooks + religious fundamentalists & racist zenophobes in West Virginia in 1974 = Just. Wow.