GOPers On Texas Board Of Education Block Proposal To Let Experts Fact-Check Textbooks

[Fearless]

In the war to whitewash American history, Texas could be considered ground zero. The state, which holds an outsized role in deciding which textbooks get published and picked up by public school around the country, has spent years attempting to inject conservative bias, “patriotism,” and revisionist history into the curriculum. At the same time, Republicans on the school board have actively worked to quash well-established science like evolution and climate change because it clashed with their worldview.

The results have been laughably bad. In Texas, children may learn, for example, that the biblical figure of Moses was a founding father of America....

Sometimes what isn’t mentioned is just as egregious. In Social Studies, students read from textbooks that painstakingly avoid mentioning the Ku Klux Klan or Jim Crow laws. The Civil War? It was fought over states’ rights. The enslavement of millions of African-Americans seemed relegated to a footnote.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/11/19/gopers-on-texas-board-of-education-block-proposal-to-let-experts-fact-check-textbooks/

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[liberal N proud]

1. The GOP does not subscribe to Facts

Facts might not tell the story you want to tell.

[Tommy2Tone]

2. I live in Texas

But after the first of the year I am going to move to Austin. It's the only sane place in the entire state.

[Buzz Clik]

4. You will not be represented in Congress.

Sorry. Your representative, depending on where you live in Austin, is likely to be from another city entirely.

[Tommy2Tone]

7. Better than Dallas

[Buzz Clik]

8. For sure, but that may be where your Rep lives.

[Tommy2Tone]

9. I can help

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[ananda]

10. Welcome in advance!

[Buzz Clik]

3. Anyone who believes that the State of Texas is the land of minimal government interference...

... is delusional. The red tape in Texas is as horrible as any other state in the country and is rivaled only by the US government.

The endless interference by the state legislature and micromanagement by the State Board of Education are just two grains of sand on the vast beach of Texas bureaucracy.

[randys1]

5. Regulation that results in safe work places and a clean environment as well as safe

products, is vital and I support it entirely.

But much regulation exists on behalf of the biggest corporations to keep the little guy or gal from getting into business at all.

[Rex]

6. The head of the board is a home schooler hand picked by Abbott.

Typical of Repukes to write the history they want to believe and not the one reality says happened.

[librechik]

11. Colorado got ride of their GOPers on (one) school board, same situation.

The kids did it by walking out and protesting for over a year with their parents support. Then it went to the polling place and we replaced those anal christers with real humans in a 73% landslide.

Your turn, Texas.