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

[chefcraig]

Too soon?

I still can't get my head beyond the fact that in November, it will be 50 years.

[Nitro Express]

Meanwhile, we KNOW you don't.

It may be true that the guy in Texas is crazy but it's not true that Texas influences everything. California is a big enough state they could publish their own textbooks. Like I said I have seen this on the class level at one college done by one professor. He didn't like what was available off the shelf so he published his own book because his class was unique. Granted the book was paperback and not hard cover but this business of saying Texas influences what information can be taught in another state is silly.

[FORD]

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.

No, it's not like that at all. But if these morons had their way, they would probably ban electric guitars too. Might get some protests in Austin though.....

[jhale667]

Nyquil needs to do some research on how textbooks are chosen in the U.S.

[Coyote]

Nyquil needs to do some research on how textbooks are chosen in the U.S.

Sure...

[Nitro Express]

Nyquil needs to do some research on how textbooks are chosen in the U.S.

It all depends on the school. You have public schools, private schools, and charter schools. Typically in public schools the state board of education decides what text books they are going to use and that decision differs state to state.

[Hardrock69]

Yes it does.

The private schools in Louisiana teach the same kind of horseshit (most plantation owners treated their slaves well, the Trail Of Tears led more Indians to Christ, dinosaurs and humans co-existed, etc.):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/louisiana-voucher-school-hippies_n_2823510.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=1063157,b=facebook

[FORD]

Yes it does.

The private schools in Louisiana teach the same kind of horseshit (most plantation owners treated their slaves well, the Trail Of Tears led more Indians to Christ, dinosaurs and humans co-existed, etc.):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...157,b=facebook

Well, that would explain why ELVIS believes some of the things he does.....

[Nitro Express]

Well it all depends on what hippie you are talking about. Charles Manson might fit the southern school description but I doubt Jerry Garcia would. Jerry might have gotten dirty a few times but I doubt he worshipped Satan.

[cadaverdog]

But when someone wants schools to teach your kids evolution only, homosexuality as normal behavior or the white man is the devil people don't have the same reaction. It only pisses some people off if it goes against them.

[FORD]

But when someone wants schools to teach your kids evolution only, homosexuality as normal behavior or the white man is the devil people don't have the same reaction. It only pisses some people off if it goes against them.

Oh you're still mad because your school didn't cover socks in their sex education classes.

[ELVIS]

Exactly. Teaching kids creationism. Sugar-coating slavery, implying McCarthy WASN'T an unpatriotic douche - all this shit is child abuse.

And you say I'm paranoid ??

[jhale667]

And you say I'm paranoid ??

You are.


What's that got to do with the effort to teach kids BULLSHIT like I mentioned? And how is setting kids up to FAIL by doing so, not abusive?

[FORD]

And you say I'm paranoid ??

Just because you're paranoid
Don't mean they're not after you......