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indoctrinating and brainwashing kids is wrong.....unless they're brainwashed by MY beliefs!
The Texas Taliban — also known as the right-wing majority on the Texas State Board of Education — wants to revise the state's standards for science textbooks to require the addition of religious pseudoscience when teaching subjects like biology. And this isn't just bad news for Texas schoolchildren, because the Texas standards will impact the textbooks used by millions of students nationwide.
The Texas State Board of Education recently invited a small group of people to review the biology textbooks that will be used for the next eight years, starting in 2014. But more than half of the reviewers are right-wing religious ideologues,1 some of whom are even skeptics of Darwin's theory of evolution — considered one of the most reliably established facts in science, and a central tenet of biology.2
The ultimate goal of these sham textbook reviews — and Texas State Board of Education curriculum reform — is to enshrine right-wing ideology into Texas textbooks. What's worse, because of the scale of production of these textbooks, the dictates of the Texas School Board of Education will be included in textbooks used by millions of students in other states.
We can't let them get away with replacing long-accepted scientific principles with religious pseudoscience and propaganda.3
Tell textbook publishers to stand up to the Texas Taliban and only publish books that are based on sound, peer-reviewed science scholarship.
The most recent review of biology textbooks was a particularly egregious process, considering the people who were invited to participate. Here are just a few of the reviewers who are listed in the Creation Science Hall of Fame as “Darwin Skeptics”4:
• Raymond Bohlin, a research fellow for an organization whose purpose is the promotion of “intelligent design” — a religious idea which seeks to cast doubt on evolution while cir venting the Supreme Court ruling that bars the teaching of “creation science” in public schools.5
• Walter Bradley, who helped launch the “intelligent design” movement with a book he coauthored, led The Mystery of Life's Origin.
• Ide Trotter, a wealthy funder of anti-science organizations, who has repeatedly participated in science textbook reviews advocating for the inclusion of scientifically discredited theories about the weaknesses of evolution.
Textbook publishers can refuse to make suggested changes, or pull out of the state's business altogether, just as publisher Holt, Rinehart and Winston did in 1994, when Texas requested over 400 revisions in five health textbooks — including the removal of toll-free phone numbers for teenage suicide prevention groups.
http://act.credoaction.com/sign/texa...sig=1&rd=1&t=2
ing "Christian" assholes trying to impose their bull fantasies in taxpayer funded schools, dumbing down Texas (even more).
How can you expect to be taken seriously when you use phrases like "Texas Taliban?" Do these people WANT to change anything?
Taliban are famous, among the informed, for imposing their religious beliefs on everybody they can, keeping girls out of school, bombing ancient Buddhist statues, etc, etc.
It's an appropriately inflammatory, derogatory label for TX "Christians", seriously.
They aren't interested in change for the sake of change. It must be accompanied with a sidecar of "you're stupid/racist/dishonest" for anyone with the temerity to disagree with them.
lol parentheticals.
Because, we can't induce change without a healthy dose of ridicule. That makes everything better.
Would the "informed" care to tell me when the Texas SBOE started bombing other religious symbols and keeping girls out of schools?
I'm serious. You are bad for your cause. You really should say as little as possible if you want to contribute in a meaningful way to progressive policy making any progress in Texas. Unless you're actually a red state bubba repug mole.
Just shut up. Do it for Wendy Davis.
I gave examples of how the Taleban impose their religion on others, which are not examples of what TX "Christians" do. Your attack is spurious bull .Would the "informed" care to tell me when the Texas SBOE started bombing other religious symbols and keeping girls out of schools?
I'm serious. You are bad for your cause. You really should say as little as possible if you want to contribute in a meaningful way to progressive policy making any progress in Texas. Unless you're actually a red state bubba repug mole.
Just shut up. Do it for Wendy Davis.
Progressive policy in TX would be stopping regressive, oppressive TX "Christian" Taleban from polluting TX education system with their bull fantasies, anti-rational, anti-scientific crap.
I have a suggestion, just teach science...
it's a scientific fact that you sir are attracted to and mexicans are inferior low iq beings, proven by IQ testing and studies what do you have to say on that subject
Teaching religion in a science class is something the Taliban would do. The fact boutons says so doesn't change the fact.Would the "informed" care to tell me when the Texas SBOE started bombing other religious symbols and keeping girls out of schools?
I'm serious. You are bad for your cause. You really should say as little as possible if you want to contribute in a meaningful way to progressive policy making any progress in Texas. Unless you're actually a red state bubba repug mole.
Just shut up. Do it for Wendy Davis.
History is full of more apt comparisons to Texas' regressive educational policy than the Taliban.
The point of the Taliban comparison isn't meant to be the most apt, it's meant to get the most attention.
Seems to be working
Like Hitler comparisons get attention yet carry little to no weight anymore because of ridiculous overuse.
I guess.
You seem really sensitive about this subject. You a bible thumper?
Why, because I'm responding to you?
Look it's okay to just say you see my point and you agree. I hate the idea of Christianity being taught in school. It's very hard to make a bad argument against it. OP succeeded.
I see your point that teaching religion in school does not nearly encompass all the terrible things the Taliban does.
Look it's okay to just say you see my point and you agree. I hate the idea of Christianity being taught in school. It's very hard to make a bad argument against it. OP succeeded.
I also think your "point" is a total strawman since it has nothing to do with what boutons said.
That's not my point though.
Board of Education just wants kids spend more time learning and less time ing, and I don't see nothing wrong in it. Kids are living in a ty time where they're always fed with the images of violence, obscenity and many other things that their parents' generation couldn't get to see at their age. Teaching religion in school doesn't inflict no harm on children, not nearly as pernicious as Mr. Obama's brainwashing preachments at least. I'm not a fan of either party, to be quite honest, they're equally bad and ty. So it doesn't make much sense to me when you call the right-wing "taliban" without calling the other "jihad", tbh.
mavs > spurs talking and Mexicans..lol
LMAO, another poor hick member of the anti-intellectual crowd.
I assumed it was because Taliban is alliterate to texas.
Texas racist Repugs (oops, sorry for the redundancy) on the Christian Taliban SBOE hard at work relentlessly revising history.
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“I think, that [school] books have to be rewritten — the whole notion of changing what happened during slavery time to saying it’s a fantasy — Texas — is unacceptable.”
The board approved the redesignation of the slave trade as the “Transatlantic Slave Trade,” after flirting with the name “Atlantic Triangluar Trade” as another possible name for the industry.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/0...-unacceptable/
The board has diminished Thomas Jefferson’s role in history because of his belief in the separation of church and state.
Students also are required to learn that America’s founding do ents were influenced by various intellectual traditions, “especially biblical law,” and principles laid down by Moses.
From the tenor of the changes, the board approved the foundation for a fundamentalist Christian theocracy. It would be kinda like Iran, only it would be the right Christian kind.
Social conservatives, creationists and religious fanatics who dominate the Texas State Board of Education want to redefine the Cons ution as an explicitly Christian do ent and highlight the role of God in the establishment of the US.
The board approved dropping references to a landmark court case that barred schools from segregating Mexican American students. Joseph McCarthy’s campaign against suspected communists is now 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 le IX, affirmative action, and the Great Society, and would need to study conservative icons like Phyllis Schlafly, the Heritage Foundation, and the Moral Majority.
http://blog.sfgate.com/ybenjamin/201...angular-trade/
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