Mon 15 Mar, 2010
Thank Zeus this only happens in Russia:
For the next ten years, millions of students in Texas and across the country will read history textbooks suggesting that the actions of witch-hunt instigator Joseph McCarthy were justified. They will read about religious icon John Calvin instead of Thomas Jefferson. They will read a description of the US government that includes the words “constitutional republic” but not the word “democratic.”
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Texas buys so many of the country’s textbooks that publishers tailor their books to match its standards as closely as possible. As a Washington Monthly article stated, “When it comes to textbooks, what happens in Texas, rarely stays in Texas.”
In other words, students in Rhode Island and Texas could be reading about the Judeo-Christian influences of the nation’s Founding Fathers at the same time. But they won’t be reading about the rationale for a separation of church and state. That’s gone, too.
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Most of those 10 people who support the changes describe themselves as Christian fundamentalists, including the board’s chairman Don McLeroy.
“All we are doing is reflecting what has actually happened in the country,” McLeroy said in a video available below. “Somebody has got to stand up the experts.”
Whoa, whoa, whoa. This is happening in America? Not communist, Marxist, socialist Russia? But America? And the people who decided this are self-described Christian fundamentalists?
My Shiva, someone please tell me this is a joke. Please tell me that children aren’t going to be taught that Joseph McCarthy was a hero, and that Ronald Reagan was the greatest president in the history of America.
Because I’m this close to ending it all by ingesting a marijuana, magic mushroom, LSD laced pound cake.
Tags: Public Schools, Rewriting History, Texas, Thank Pan This Wasn't About South Carolina
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