Good God....The Man In Charge Of Choosing Textbooks In Texas Is NUTS!

[jhale667]

It's child abuse.

Exactly. Teaching kids creationism. Sugar-coating slavery, implying McCarthy WASN'T an unpatriotic douche - all this shit is child abuse. Not to mention the reason why the US is falling behind the rest of the world educationally.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Yay religion !!!

[jhale667]

Yay religion !!!

Religion is a fucking cancer.

[Nitro Express]

You're overlooking the fact their idiotic decisions impact textbooks in the rest of the country, and NO kid should be taught that bullshit PERIOD.

What's to say your educational system in your local area has to use those textbooks? It's the information age. Nobody has a monopoly on information anymore. It's why I'm for as many choices as possible instead of having everything centralized.

[Nitro Express]

Any state that elects Chimpy twice, and then follows up with three terms of pRick Perry does not deserve to decide ANYTHING else for the rest of the country.

Vote with your pocketbook. Don't buy those textbooks. Simple as that.

[Nitro Express]

It's why math was my favorite subject. It's either right or wrong and impossible to politicize or tie an agenda to. If you are good at it, you can get better jobs than people who suck at it.

[FORD]

[jhale667]

Vote with your pocketbook. Don't buy those textbooks. Simple as that.

NO IT'S NOT. Geez, I don't even have kids and I know that's totally absofuckingloutely wrong. They pick what ends up being the textbooks for the nation - which is why zealotards should have NO say in the selection process.

[FORD]

What's to say your educational system in your local area has to use those textbooks? It's the information age. Nobody has a monopoly on information anymore. It's why I'm for as many choices as possible instead of having everything centralized.

Vote with your pocketbook. Don't buy those textbooks. Simple as that.

It's why math was my favorite subject. It's either right or wrong and impossible to politicize or tie an agenda to. If you are good at it, you can get better jobs than people who suck at it.

Your three consecutive posts here completely contradict each other.....

Because if math were your favorite subject, you would easily recognize the fact that Texas is a huge state, which means they have more schools than other states, and therefore buy more textbooks than most other states. So textbook publishers feel "obligated" to cater to Texas in the content of their books for that reason, because it is such a huge market. Unfortunately, even with modern technology, it's not practical for textbooks to be printed in both "fundagelical backasswards religious dipshit edition" and then a normal edition for the rest of the country. So all the normal states get stuck with the same books that these fucking morons want.

[LoungeMachine]

It's why math was my favorite subject. It's either right or wrong and impossible to politicize or tie an agenda to. .

You would never make it as a Polster then...



Although I'm sure you had an uncle who was one once.....

[Nitro Express]

NO IT'S NOT. Geez, I don't even have kids and I know that's totally absofuckingloutely wrong. They pick what ends up being the textbooks for the nation - which is why zealotards should have NO say in the selection process.

I don't think you get the concept. There isn't just one history book. You have many to choose from. If they all suck you can make your own. Many teachers and professors do that now. It's so easy to have things published. If your department of education buys shitty textbooks well maybe they have a problem. Just because Gibson does shitty fretwork doesn't mean you have to buy a Gibson.

[Nitro Express]

Your three consecutive posts here completely contradict each other.....

Because if math were your favorite subject, you would easily recognize the fact that Texas is a huge state, which means they have more schools than other states, and therefore buy more textbooks than most other states. So textbook publishers feel "obligated" to cater to Texas in the content of their books for that reason, because it is such a huge market. Unfortunately, even with modern technology, it's not practical for textbooks to be printed in both "fundagelical backasswards religious dipshit edition" and then a normal edition for the rest of the country. So all the normal states get stuck with the same books that these fucking morons want.

Yeah but they are buying ONE textbook. Don't tell me the whole country buys the same ONE textbook. Education is a huge business and you have all sorts of people trying to sell Departments of Education and school districts stuff. It's like saying the people in Texas like this one type of guitar and so all the rest of you are going to have to buy it too. Like I said, if the text books are shit write your own. I've seen this done on the class level in universities. Why can't schools do it?

[chefcraig]

Hey, it could be worse. The guy's office could be on the 6th floor of the building marked A in this photo.

[LoungeMachine]

Too soon?

[jhale667]

I don't think you get the concept.

Meanwhile, we KNOW you don't.