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    Think Progress � Texas to revise history textbooks: liberals out, Limbaugh and Gingrich in.

    Textbooks being written for Texas kids appear to lean to the right | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

    AUSTIN — Texas high school students would learn about such significant individuals and milestones of conservative politics as Newt Gingrich and the rise of the Moral Majority — but nothing about liberals — under the first draft of new standards for public school history textbooks.
    And the side that got left out is very unhappy.
    As it stands, students would get “one-sided, right wing ideology,” said Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, chairman of the House Mexican American Caucus.
    “We ought to be focusing on historical significance and historical figures. It's important that whatever course they take, that it portray a complete view of our history and not a jaded view to suit one's partisan agenda or one's partisan philosophy,” he said.
    The State Board of Education has appointed “review committees” made up largely of active and retired school teachers to draft new social studies curriculum standards as well as six “expert reviewers” to help shape the final document.
    The standards, which the board will decide next spring, will influence new history, civics and geography textbooks.
    The first draft for proposed standards in United States History Studies Since Reconstruction says students should be expected “to identify significant conservative advocacy organizations and individuals, such as Newt Gingrich, Phyllis Schlafly and the Moral Majority.”
    Gingrich helped lead House Republicans to their 1994 takeover of Congress and became House speaker. Schlafly founded the conservative Eagle Forum and became a leading opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment aimed at formalizing women's equality with men. The Moral Majority formed in the late 1970s as an evangelical Christian organization that influenced politics and public policy for decades.
    Will it pass muster?

    Whether students will also be exposed to liberal examples from the ebb and flow of American politics is hard to predict. Conservatives form the largest bloc on the 15-member State Board of Education, whose partisan makeup is 10 Republicans and five Democrats.
    David Bradley, R-Beaumont, one of the conservative leaders, figures the current draft will pass a preliminary vote along party lines “once the napalm and smoke clear the room.”
    But not all conservative board members share that view.
    “It is hard to believe that a majority of the writing team would approve of such wording,” said Terri Leo, R-Spring. “It's not even a representative selection of the conservative movement, and it is inappropriate.”
    Advocate for both sides

    Another board conservative, Ken Mercer, R-San Antonio, thinks students should study both sides to “see what the differences are and be able to define those differences.”
    He would add James Dobson's Focus on the Family, conservative talk show host Sean Hannity and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to the list of conservatives. Others have proposed adding talk show host Rush Limbaugh and the National Rifle Association.
    “I think, at the end of the day, we will want the young students to be able to identify what's conservative, what's their advocacy and who are the conservative groups, individuals and leaders. And what is liberal in contrast,” Mercer said.
    Among liberals to include, Mercer would nominate the National Education Association, MoveOn.org, Planned Parenthood and the Texas Freedom Network — a group that says it promotes “religious freedom and individual liberties to counter the radical right.”
    “We don't think it's appropriate to be listing groups and people in the standards just because they're conservatives or liberals,” said Kathy Miller, the group's president. “The state board should simply stop putting politics ahead of our kids' education and putting teachers in the position of indoctrinating students with political agendas.”
    The debate will likely intensify in coming months. Two reviewers have recommended that César Chávez, the late farm workers union leader, be removed from history books because they deem him an unworthy role model.
    Board members appoint the review committees and typically choose people who share their philosophies.
    So yeah They're removing George washington, Abraham lincoln, Cesar Chavez and every liberal from the history books while adding Newt Gingrich, Rush, and Phyllis Schlafly. State will now be full of sarah palins. Get out while you still can dimmy.

    Incoming Idiocracy irl.

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    Fuck me sorry for the double post.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rhinox View Post
    So yeah They're removing George washington, Abraham lincoln
    hyperbole?

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    I put some creationism in your history brah.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rhinox View Post
    [url=http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/21/texas-history-gingrich/]Think Progress
    History's first draft: Newt Gingrich but no liberals
    Textbooks being written for Texas students appear to lean to the right

    By GARY SCHARRER
    AUSTIN BUREAU
    Aug. 20, 2009, 11:19PM


    AUSTIN — Texas high school students would learn about such significant individuals and milestones of conservative politics as Newt Gingrich and the rise of the Moral Majority — but nothing about liberals — under the first draft of new standards for public school history textbooks.

    And the side that got left out is very unhappy.

    As it stands, students would get “one-sided, right wing ideology,” said Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, chairman of the House Mexican American Caucus.


    “We ought to be focusing on historical significance and historical figures. It's important that whatever course they take, that it portray a complete view of our history and not a jaded view to suit one's partisan agenda or one's partisan philosophy,” he said.

    The State Board of Education has appointed “review committees” made up largely of active and retired school teachers to draft new social studies curriculum standards as well as six “expert reviewers” to help shape the final document.

    The standards, which the board will decide next spring, will influence new history, civics and geography textbooks.

    The first draft for proposed standards in United States History Studies Since Reconstruction says students should be expected “to identify significant conservative advocacy organizations and individuals, such as Newt Gingrich, Phyllis Schlafly and the Moral Majority.”

    Gingrich helped lead House Republicans to their 1994 takeover of Congress and became House speaker. Schlafly founded the conservative Eagle Forum and became a leading opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment aimed at formalizing women's equality with men. The Moral Majority formed in the late 1970s as an evangelical Christian organization that influenced politics and public policy for decades.

    Will it pass muster?

    Whether students will also be exposed to liberal examples from the ebb and flow of American politics is hard to predict. Conservatives form the largest bloc on the 15-member State Board of Education, whose partisan makeup is 10 Republicans and five Democrats.

    David Bradley, R-Beaumont, one of the conservative leaders, figures the current draft will pass a preliminary vote along party lines “once the napalm and smoke clear the room.”

    But not all conservative board members share that view.

    “It is hard to believe that a majority of the writing team would approve of such wording,” said Terri Leo, R-Spring. “It's not even a representative selection of the conservative movement, and it is inappropriate.”


    Advocate for both sides

    Another board conservative, Ken Mercer, R-San Antonio, thinks students should study both sides to “see what the differences are and be able to define those differences.”

    He would add James Dobson's Focus on the Family, conservative talk show host Sean Hannity and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to the list of conservatives. Others have proposed adding talk show host Rush Limbaugh and the National Rifle Association.


    “I think, at the end of the day, we will want the young students to be able to identify what's conservative, what's their advocacy and who are the conservative groups, individuals and leaders. And what is liberal in contrast,” Mercer said.

    Among liberals to include, Mercer would nominate the National Education Association, MoveOn.org, Planned Parenthood and the Texas Freedom Network — a group that says it promotes “religious freedom and individual liberties to counter the radical right.”

    “We don't think it's appropriate to be listing groups and people in the standards just because they're conservatives or liberals,” said Kathy Miller, the group's president. “The state board should simply stop putting politics ahead of our kids' education and putting teachers in the position of indoctrinating students with political agendas.”

    The debate will likely intensify in coming months. Two reviewers have recommended that César Chávez, the late farm workers union leader, be removed from history books because they deem him an unworthy role model.

    Board members appoint the review committees and typically choose people who share their philosophies.


    Its funny how people only pick and choose certain parts of a story to further they agenda.

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    Quote Originally Posted by archibaldcrane View Post
    hyperbole?
    Kinda. This is what they wanted to do earlier this year.

    The 15-member committee, stacked with 10 Republicans, is expected to vote along party lines. Earlier this year, a panel of right-wing "experts" produced a report urging the committee to remove biographies of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Stephen F. Austin, César Chávez, and instead add history about the "motivational role the Bible and the Christian faith played in the settling of the original colonies."
    At this point the Committee is stacked against reason. So they can pretty much do what they want.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rhinox View Post
    Think Progress � Texas to revise history textbooks: liberals out, Limbaugh and Gingrich in.

    Textbooks being written for Texas kids appear to lean to the right | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

    So yeah They're removing George washington, Abraham lincoln, Cesar Chavez and every liberal from the history books while adding Newt Gingrich, Rush, and Phyllis Schlafly. State will now be full of sarah palins. Get out while you still can dimmy.

    Incoming Idiocracy irl.
    There are alot of smart people that live in the main cities of Texas. If you look at the voting results of the past election; Bexar, Travis, Harris, and Dallas counties voted for Obama. Its the dumbfuck rednecks that live in small towns that fuck it up for us.

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    There really is nothing stopping them from doing it. And if people are just saying loltexas they really know nothing. Prentice hall who makes the text books bases them off the ones that are used in texas and California.

    Textbook Publishers Learn to Avoid Messing With Texas - The New York Times

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    you have to hand it to texas, every time you think they can't do something even more insane they prove you wrong. so at least they've got that going for them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dimmauk View Post
    Its funny how people only pick and choose certain parts of a story to further they agenda.

    btw dimmy The other post was broken for some reason. I didn't exclude the Chronicles article infact I quoted it before the other link. So really don't know what you're getting at.

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    Isn't Texas supposed to secede w/ Chuck Norris as it's leader?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rhinox View Post
    btw dimmy The other post was broken for some reason. I didn't exclude the Chronicles article infact I quoted it before the other link. So really don't know what you're getting at.
    I was talking about how people are so quick to lolTexas on something that wont even happen. People dont even read the article, they just read the headline and chalk it up to lolTexas and the crazy right wingers. Like everyone in Texas is a GOP nutjob, and will just let this happen.

    Its just a first draft, that not everyone, both Dems and Repubs even agree on. Yet, its an automatic slam dunk on having a conservative only history book?

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    Loving history, this was always one of the things that I hated about the education system in America.

    Our history books have always been censored. Always will be. This is about as shocking as finding out I have hair.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dimmauk View Post
    I was talking about how people are so quick to lolTexas on something that wont even happen. People dont even read the article, they just read the headline and chalk it up to lolTexas and the crazy right wingers. Like everyone in Texas is a GOP nutjob, and will just let this happen.

    Its just a first draft, that not everyone, both Dems and Repubs even agree on. Yet, its an automatic slam dunk on having a conservative only history book?
    lol, Just because people agree on something in the 'first draft' doesnt mean they're gonna keep agreeing at the very end. For example

    Hot Air

    Chuck Grassley wanted to work with the Democrats on reform in the beginning. I don't think I have to tell you how badly he is trying to sabotage it now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rhinox View Post
    They're removing George washington, Abraham lincoln
    I would hope so...








    Lincoln was before, right? It's been awhile since social studies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Suited Aces View Post
    I would hope so...








    Lincoln was before, right? It's been awhile since social studies.
    Did you read the entire thread? Yeah didn't think so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dimmauk View Post
    There are alot of retarded sheep that live in the main cities of Texas. If you look at the voting results of the past election; Bexar, Travis, Harris, and Dallas counties voted for Obama.
    Fixed it for you.

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    stop bolding shit you dumb motherfuckers

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