The British are on to Texas-based fundie madness

[Seneca]

Texas schools board rewrites US history with lessons promoting God and guns

Cynthia Dunbar does not have a high regard for her local schools. She has called them unconstitutional, tyrannical and tools of perversion. The conservative Texas lawyer has even likened sending children to her state's schools to "throwing them in to the enemy's flames". Her hostility runs so deep that she educated her own offspring at home and at private Christian establishments.

Now Dunbar is on the brink of fulfilling a promise to change all that, or at least point Texas schools toward salvation. She is one of a clutch of Christian evangelists and social conservatives who have grasped control of the state's education board. This week they are expected to force through a new curriculum that is likely to shift what millions of American schoolchildren far beyond Texas learn about their history.

The board is to vote on a sweeping purge of alleged liberal bias in Texas school textbooks in favour of what Dunbar says really matters: a belief in America as a nation chosen by God as a beacon to the world, and free enterprise as the cornerstone of liberty and democracy.

"We are fighting for our children's education and our nation's future," Dunbar said. "In Texas we have certain statutory obligations to promote patriotism and to promote the free enterprise system. There seems to have been a move away from a patriotic ideology. There seems to be a denial that this was a nation founded under God. We had to go back and make some corrections."

:nuke: :grr: :banghead:


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/16/texas-schools-rewrites-us-history

Accompanied by a photo of the supremely ignorant Cynthia Dunbar:

[RKP5637]

1. I guess I just don't get it... is Texas the only place that knows how to

write or buy a textbook... It is one state of 50. It would seem another publisher would see this as an opportunity to give Texas the boot. Yet another state I would never step foot in again, but not they they would care... This country has so so so many problems.

[Dogtown]

2. Publishers kowtow.

Since a large amount of books are ordered by TX public school systems, it's economically efficient to limit available tracts to their standards; thus, Texas is in a position to dictate what is available to the rest of the country.

Or so I've come to understand.


If the fundies can control the Texas School Board, they can effectively dumb-down the curriculum of the entire country. I do believe they are ruthless enough to do this.

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[Dogtown]

4. Glad to assist.

I don't understand all the mechanics, so I gave you a synopsis. My information was gleaned from posts by more knowledgeable DUers, if you care to research further.

[Scurrilous]

5. K & R

:thumbsup:

[get the red out]

6. Christian Madrassas

How can we even maintain the facade of democracy in this country with the Christo-fascists controlling more and more information?????