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Old 03-15-2010, 04:13 PM
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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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Old 03-23-2010, 10:19 PM
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Old 03-23-2010, 10:44 PM
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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this has occurred, those that will rely upon the Texass Textbook Commission (or whatever) will have the same stinkin' outdated textbooks sitting in their classrooms for decades to come.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.

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And just how would they view the reign of LBJ?
"It started on a high point but got rapidly worse."
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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...:shocked:
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Meanwhile, in an alternative universe, California lawmakers start introducing legislation to become Texas textbook free.

http://www.texastribune.org/blogs/po...xas-textbooks/
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Old 05-20-2010, 01:17 AM
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Any state could do quite well buying textbooks that represent the opposite of Texas textbooks.
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Old 05-20-2010, 07:40 PM
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More details on some of the 200 proposed changes to the social studies curriculum: Texas wants to rename slave trade as "Atlantic triangular trade"

Jesus Christ The Texas Board of Education wants to refer to the slave trade as the "Atlantic triangular trade". What the he** is the "Atlantic triangular trade"? What do you call the millions of African-Americans whose ancestors came here as slaves? Descendants of triangulates? [...]

Capitalism can only be referred to as "free enterprise system", largely because of the negative connotations of the word "capitalism". Personally I don't think there is anything wrong with capitalism but they should consider teaching that unfettered greed can be bad for society. [...]

The board wants to drop references to a landmark court case that barred schools from segregating Mexican American students. Joseph McCarthy's campaign against suspected communists is also to be toned down. Like McCarthy was just a curious senator, right?

The amendments also cast the United Nations in a critical light, with students asked to evaluate whether the UN and its committees undermine US sovereignty - a tune for conservatives. Students would be required to learn about the "unintended consequences" of Title IX, affirmative action, and the Great Society, and would need to study conservative icons like Phyllis Schlafly, the Heritage Foundation, and the Moral Majority. [...]

In fact, in the transcripts of the board discussions, they specifically did not want to include President George W. Bush's controversial 2000 election outcome nor the election of the first African American President Barack Obama. On the other hand, the board wants to add positive references to the Moral Majority, the National Rifle Association and the GOP's Contract with America.


All of this shit is expected to pass.
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I think I need to stock up on alternative textbooks for my children. No way I'm letting them learn only from Texas-style textbooks.
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I was taught "Atlantic triangular trade" in school, but it was pretty clear that one leg of the triangle was slaves.
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I was taught "Atlantic triangular trade" in school, but it was pretty clear that one leg of the triangle was slaves.
Easily identifiable as the leg chained to the cargo hold of a ship.
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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.
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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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I understand that the triangles so traded were very useful for building slave pens for all the black slaves, too.
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Damn! I was waiting for them to say who was performing the bluegrass in the background. :D

Edit: According to the "buy this MP3 at Amazon" link on the Youtube page, the song is "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Flatt and Scruggs. :duelingbanjos:
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There I go again: :ffgiggle:
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Texas Textbooks: What happened, what it means, and what we can do about it | People For the American Way
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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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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!
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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.
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Damn! I was waiting for them to say who was performing the bluegrass in the background. :D

Edit: According to the "buy this MP3 at Amazon" link on the Youtube page, the song is "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Flatt and Scruggs. :duelingbanjos:
LOL

Any true southerner or bluegrass fan could have picked that out.

I really hate to see them use this song for the background. Foggy Mt Breakdown is like the national anthem of bluegrass.

"Turkey in the Straw" would have been better.
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