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But you still acknowledge NCAA athletics are nothing like American slavery?
But you still acknowledge NCAA athletics are nothing like American slavery?
You would make a good repug the way you dodge questions son.
RIF, and you are functionally illiterate, kiddo.
Just a flesh wound!
Baseline Butt is the guy on the left
Just a flesh wound!
let's you GFY
Messing With Texas Textbooks
Larry Wilmore examined the latest school textbook revisions from Texas, which is eliminating references to the slave trade, Jim Crow laws, and the Ku Klux Klan — changes will affect history books in schools all across the country.
Texas is a big place, Larry explained, “and the one thing Texans like more than white picket fences — is whitewashing history.”
But how to illustrate this? Larry read to a group of schoolchildren from the new book, “Goodnight Slavery.”
see the vid
http://www.nationalmemo.com/late-nig...xas-textbooks/
Scholars Find 400 New Errors in ‘Racist’ Textbook Revamp
Rallying scholars say the revised Mexican-American studies textbook, which describes Mexican Americans as dangerous and lazy, also introduces hundreds of new errors.
The board is scheduled to take a final vote this week on the Mexican American Heritagetextbook, which has been widely criticized for its poor writing, factual errors and passages describing Mexican Americans as lazy and dangerous.
expert reviewers said the changes only introduced more errors. The publisher offered 900 responses to critics, but University of Texas professor Emilio Zamora said he and other reviewers counted 400 more errors in those responses.
What hasn’t changed, Zamora said, is the book’s depiction of Latino culture as anti-American.
The book says that Chicano activists in the 1970s “wanted to destroy this society,” and suggests that immigrants arrive from Latin
American countries with an appe e for revolution.
“They say it directly, and they say it indirectly,” Zamora said. “In fact, that’s the central theme of the textbook.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/mexica...ok-sboe-rally/
TX Christian Taliban news
Texas Board of Education Votes to Keep Evolution-Doubting Language in High School Biology Textbooks
Evolution skeptics on the State Board of Education voted against updating Texas' 9th grade biology textbook to reflect scientific fact on Wednesday. While the vote — which keeps language doubting evolution in Texas textbooks — is only preliminary (the final vote is scheduled for April), the move could be seen as a red flag for teacher advocates, evolution experts, and Texans who generally believe in science.
"Teachers are practically begging the board to stop forcing them to waste classroom time on junk science standards that are based mostly on the personal agendas of board members themselves, not sound science," said Kathy Miller, president of education advocacy group Texas Freedom Network, in a prepared statement. "But these politicians just can’t seem to stop themselves from making teachers’ jobs harder."
The board's decision comes after a 10-member committee of educators and biology experts (formed by the board) recommended that the state pull four phrases from Texas' 9th grade biology textbook that could leave students doubting proven science.
The phrases, creatively shrouded in jargon, ask students to
“analyze and evaluate” various evolutionary processes, including the “complexity of the cell” and “proposed transitional fossils."
Another section asks biology teachers to
examine "all sides of scientific evidence...so as to encourage critical thinking by the student." This language falsely suggests evidence has "sides" to argue,
the committee told the board, when evidence should not be interpreted as anything but fact.
These skeptical phrases were added to all high school biology books in 2009, when a citizen review board that included a few religious activists recommended their entry. The move prompted the school board to ditch the citizen-based committee, and instead mandate that teachers, professors, or subject area experts be prioritized when selecting future textbook review panels.
http://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2017/02/01/texas-board-of-education-votes-to-keep-evolution-doubting-language-in-high-school-biology-textbooks
Americans are dumb. Texans are even dumber.
Critics Fear New Texas Law Giving SBOE Wide Discretion Over Textbooks
Texas lawmakers just gave the State Board of Education more power over textbook content. What could possibly go wrong?
Senate Bill 801, authored by Senator Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, and signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott on June 9, gives the controversy-plagued State Board of Education (SBOE) the authority to reject textbook content it deems not “suitable for the subject and grade level for which the instructional material was submitted.” That may not be as innocuous as it sounds.
Seliger has said that his measure is “not intended to create another ideological battleground,”
but to ensure that textbooks are “acceptable from an academic point of view.” Indeed, the law does mandate that textbooks be “reviewed by academic experts.” However,
it doesn’t require that those experts determine whether content is suitable for students.
That determination is left in the hands of partisan, elected board members, who are not required to have any teaching experience or academic training in the subjects they oversee.
SB 801 “allows members of the board to inject their own ideology or reject a book for other reasons.”
“We might as well call this the State Board of Textbook Censorship now,”
The SBOE, she fears, “will use [SB 801] to force publishers to remove or change any content they don’t find ‘suitable’ simply for personal or political reasons.
This will turn already contentious textbook adoptions into an even bigger circus and embarrassment for Texas than they already are.”
The board is dominated by conservative and religious right Republicans who’ve drawn national attention and ridicule for their enthusiasm for culture wars.
Board members have
pushed for students to be taught that the United States is a Christian nation,
attempted to smuggle creationism into the biology curriculum,
advocated teaching third graders that taxes and regulation are detrimental, and
tried to minimize the role slavery played in causing the Civil War.
Barbara Cargill, R-The Woodlands,
“has already made clear she and her colleagues will use that [suitability] provision to reject textbook content they don’t like.”
Quinn points to a recent article in which Cargill said the board should be able to
object to content it finds “in poor taste.”
SB 801 also gives SBOE members discretion over a wide range of topics, from sex education to evolution.
would allow the board to reject content that dealt “with gay and lesbian children and their rights.”
“I think that would be correct,” Byer responded.
the board has sometimes given the views of ideological groups more weight than input from educators and academics. During the 2014 social studies textbook adoption, for instance, several board members made much of Islamophobic textbook reviews from the conservative grassroots group Truth in Texas Textbooks
https://www.texasobserver.org/critic...ion-textbooks/
Texas State Board of Education Votes to Remove Hillary Clinton from History Curriculum
Texas officials might be about to mess with the school curriculum yet again.
According to a report in the Dallas Morning News, the Texas State Board of Education on Friday issued a preliminary vote to sharply cut back the social studies curriculum in the state.
One major change is the elimination of required teaching about Hillary Clinton:
As part of an effort to "streamline" the social studies curriculum in Texas, the State Board of Education voted on Friday to change what students in every grade are required to learn in the classroom. They approved the removal of several historical figures, including Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller.For their part, the Texas Board of Education asserts that they are simply following the advice of the workgroup, which ranked Clinton and other deleted historical figures against a rubric to determine whether they are "essential" to learning about history, as part of an effort
to ensure kids do not have to memorize too many names and dates.
Curiously, however, this rubric gave perfect scores to local members of the Texas Legislature.
Additionally, the board is refusing to make several other changes to the curriculum recommended by experts for elimination,
including the deletion of references to "Judeo-Christian values," and
the alleged influence of Moses on the Declaration of Independence and the Cons ution.
Also recommended for deletion but still kept in by the board:
references to the "heroism" of defenders of the Alamo,
which is problematic because those men were fighting, in part, for the right to practice slavery.
https://www.alternet.org/texas-board-education-hillary-clinton
Last edited by boutons_deux; 09-14-2018 at 09:35 PM.
Texas Students Will Soon Learn Slavery Played A Central Role In The Civil War
Texas' Board of Education voted Friday to change the way its students learn about the Civil War. Beginning in the 2019-2020 school year, students will be taught that slavery played a "central role" in the war.
The state's previous social studies standards listed three causes for the Civil War: sectionalism, states' rights and slavery, in that order. In September, the board's Democrats proposed listing slavery as the only cause.
"What the use of 'states' rights' is doing is essentially blanketing, or skirting,
the real foundational issue, which is slavery,"
the Republican-led board landed on a compromise:
Students will be taught about "the central role of the expansion of slavery in causing sectionalism, disagreements over states' rights and the Civil War."
The approved curriculum still lists only one cause for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
"the rejection of the existence of the state of Israel by the Arab league and a majority of Arab nations."
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/16/66855...-the-civil-war
(Texas) Christian Taliban exonerating Israel as completely innocent, not because they love Jews but because Israel LAND (even tainted with Jews) is where EndTimes and Rapture will occur.
"central role of the expansion of slavery" what?
Even w/o expansion of slavery to new states, slavery in the slave states had to go.
SBOE is just another TURD contributing to the TX hole.
actually, that's a modest step forward
at least in blue states
The School Privatization Agenda Has Taken a Hit
From New York to California, new candidates ran and won on platforms opposed to privatization,
big-money backers of charter schools suffered humiliating losses, and
voters trounced efforts to expand voucher programs
that drain public schools of the funding they need.
in California where former charter school executive Marshall Tuck went down to his opponent, little-known Assemblyman Tony Thurmond, in the race for state superintendent of education.
Tuck got $36 million from charter industry advocates— !!!!!!!!!!!!
including $11 million combined from
real estate developer Bill Bloomfield,
Gap co-founder Doris Fisher, and
venture capitalist Arthur Rock—
but still lost.
It was his second run for the position after getting millions from many of the same backers four years ago to take on then-in bent superintendent Tom Torlakson.
This year’s race was much closer, but
Tuck lost again despite outspending, by more than two to one, Thurmond, who got backing from the state teachers’ unions.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-school-privatization-agenda-has-taken-a-hit/
Capitalists want to destroy public education, replace it with for-profit hole schools, killing teacher unions, while pocketing tax $$$, while their owns kids go to expensive private schools to avoid mixing with Real People.
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