Posted on 02/11/2010 7:11:23 AM PST by Britt0n
A state board of only 15 people will vote on whether to revise U.S. textbooks to omit references to Daniel Boone, Gen. George Patton, Nathan Hale, Columbus Day and Christmas.
The Texas State Board of Education will also vote on a proposal to substitute the term "American" with "global citizen."
Mathew Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, is warning Americans to speak up before only eight people, with a majority vote, have a chance to literally rewrite American history.
He appeared on the "Huckabee Show" to explain why the board's vote matters to the rest of America. Staver said Texas and California are the two largest textbook purchasers in the nation.
"Whatever textbooks they select affect the rest of the country because publishers publish those kinds of books, and the rest of the country follows," he said.
But because of California's budget crisis, the state hasn't been able to purchase as many new textbooks, he explained. So the default is Texas.
"So when this 15-member board – eight people of that will make a majority – make a decision, it will affect the entire nation," Staver said.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
The horse is out of the barn, the bird has flown the coop, and childrens’ textbooks have been full of crap for at least 30 years and getting worse and worse since then.
This little new thing is just one more stone int the avalanche.
Not sure what you meant.
Please explain.
If you don’t want people to respond to your comments in a way you don’t like, then don’t post on this thread.
It’s that simple.
In general people on FR are conservative and since public schools are nothing more than lefitst indoctrination centers, you will find that many people do not share your viewpoint that public school is jes’ fine.
Stay out of the kitchen if it’s too hot.
Why not? They changes B.C. and A.D. on calenders and noone complained. Why not do this? I don’t like it and still use the terms Before Christ and In the Year of Our Lord and people tell me that those terms are outdated. I inform them that I do not care, as long as I am alive I will continue to use them, not that modern bullshit.
Absolutely! ;)
Exactly!
I’m sure I’ll be there sooner than I may think, the way this world is going. And you bet I’ll be coming here for the best advise on home schooling, one can probably get. ;) Thanx
“So you can’t afford to school your child. If you couldn’t afford the house or food would you expect the government to provide that too?”
If they are paying taxes they already paid for their child’s public schooling—leave ‘em alone!
The only ones deserving of government services are those against having their paychecks pilfered by communists in the first place!
If they paid for their child’s schooling all by themselves then why do people that don’t have children in public school need to pay property taxes for schools?
I never said public school was jes’ fine....I know it is not.
If you read through my other posts, you’ll see why I said what I said. Government funded schools and all that it entails (indoctrination, revisionist history, etc) aside, my point was how pushy I FEEL some people are about home schooling. Even though I do agree, it is for the better.
And I still consider Jupiter a planet, I don’t care what they “declared”.
;)
Ask the communists that your neighbors put in positions of authority, not me.
Where I live, there are some diehards like me, but several of my homeschool aquaintances went back to work because of the economy. I was a surprised to see homeschooling abandoned before some other other luxuries, though. But I don’t know the whole situation, so...
The truth is that parents are only paying a small portion of what it costs to fund their child’s education. If your property taxes are $6000 a year only a portion of that goes toward schooling. The median cost of schooling a year per child is $12,000. If you have 3 children you are using $36,000 in the education system and contributing less than $6000. So you can’t truthfully say that parents are paying for their children’s education. At best they are subsidizing it with a small stipend. If the parents were paying for it there would be no need for other citizens to have to pay for it.
Bump for later viewing
That is Digesting!
That’s Disgusting -————— Darn spelling checker went zip!
So does everyone else.
(It's Pluto that was decreed not to be a planet) ;-)
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