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.
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I went to government schools and I did just fine.
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If you did just fine why do your kids need to be institutionalized for their schooling in government schools?
Vote the school board out.
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No one gets elected to the school board without the full backing of the teachers union. They support their cronies for these positions. Regular folks are completely frozen out.
If a parent is taking the time to fully read their child's textbooks, curriculum, and review their class day, and un-teach and re-teach what should be taught, they might just as well be homeschooling. That is **if** they are doing a proper job of it.
It actually takes **MORE** time to properly parent and afterschool a government schooled child than it does to homeschool! I **seriously** mean it. ( Having done both, I know.)
In the first second and third grades my children rarely spent more than one hour in formal homeschooling. From then on it was never more than 2 hours. The rest of the day they played. Yet...By the age of 13, 12, and 13 all were in college. All finished all general college courses and Calculus III by the age of 15, and two has B.S. degrees in math by the age of 18.
My children are normally bright. It is the institutionalized child who is artificially retarded in their academic and social development.
It appears, then, that it's a matter of finding alternative textbooks that other states can adopt. California and Texas can keep their own choices.
Does this mean no other textbook providers exist? Hard to believe.
Returning to the original subject of this thread, which is a truly transcendental issue, and the means through which school boards must be reached, is that history is not subject to concensus. History deals with things that happened, good or bad. No state has the right to revise or edit it for political advantage. More importantly, everything that has ever happened is not possible to include in primary and secondary education. But we can agree that some things (in the positive) sense have historical value. Most don't.
For example, if the farm workers union is significant enough to include in lower grade texts, so is the equally important thug-driven criminal behavior of SEIU, and its co-conspirator ACORN.
Once facts are abandoned for political indoctrination, history, truth and education all lose.
The gov’t schools get your kids for 30 hours a week, and you’re going to overcome that “teaching of right and wrong” in HOW many hours you get to spend with them, specifically concentrating on teaching them YOUR values instead of secular humanist values? Yeah, right...
“I went to public school and turned out alright...”
So did I. It’s nothing like it was when any of us adults went.
“Thanks for the kind words.
More and more folks are starting to “get it” about the government schools.
Sadly, it’s now late in the game.
I’ve often said that over 100 years of that system — turning out thousands of new little socialists every year —made Obama INEVITABLE!
If we don’t fix it, there is worse in store for this country.”
I have posted many times that public schools are public enemy #1
Good job, Dick!
bttt
Wow! The above is pure moral equivalence!
When did Marxism ( that what liberalism really is) become equivalent to upholding the Constitution ( exactly as written) and teaching the truth about our nation's founding principles and history?
Although you are unable to provide a single fact in refutation?
Should we all gouge our eyes out because you drank the Kool Aid?
You forgot the sarc tag and the libs on this thread will actually believe that you meant Jupiter...
Just saying.
Not that I care what you think but see my comment at 140 -
I absolutely agree with you! I have been posting this for years! Government schools are literally the most serious threat to our nation's future! ( I seriously mean it!)You are one of the few smart conservatives who understand the threat.
Marxism ( Utopian progressivism) is our nation's **most** serious threat! Schools are the Marxist's ( Utopian progressive’s) **MOST** powerful weapon against freedom!
To the STOOOOPID conservatives who think that government schools can be fixed I have the following to say:
NO! NO! NO! Government schools can NOT be reformed!!!!
Every day that a child attends socialist paid-for government school they learn that the government as the power to take money from their neighbor to pay for schooling their parents want for tuition-free!
And...The socialist teachers teach the children that it is a **RIGHT**!!!! Well!..Duh!...If the government has the police power to take money from a neighbor to pay for tuition-free schooling, why not use government power to pay for a thousand other wants and needs?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLwWyugDEN4
Fox News did a special about textbooks last year. It’s posted in many parts on Youtube.
We didn’t have a text, just lessons he compiled and passed out for each unit. We took a great deal of notes as well as much was taught through lectures. Looking back, I now realize what a great deal of effort he put into teaching. Very rare indeed.
Oh! So you really could homeschool.
Do you want the government to force your neighbor to help pay for your car or gas, as well?
But recently I've seen lefty agendas trumping what is palatable, with a strong emphasis on minimizing the efforts of the founding of our great nation in favor of extolling the “virtues” of some throw-back, illiterate, third-world “culture” as somehow the same as, or more worthy than, American culture.
Facts are facts, and they should be presented as such. Spinning is wrong on many levels. That is why I have a library of old textbooks, many dating from the 1800’s, as these are the most honest as they are written more closely to the time and reflect genuine thoughts on the events of the day.
Just my opinion, of course.
So, you’re damn right I’m going to take advantage of the public school system, for which I MYSELF pay into.
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Actually,..It is your neighbor who funds the government schools. Government schools don’t pay for themselves.
IMHO, homeschooling is great. People do it to give their kids an education that surpasses the public school system’s offerings, while defending them from the liberal BS that passes off as education.
I personally believe, however, that this remedy is slightly ignoring the problem in the public education system: LIBERAL INDOCTRINATION.
We need to boot them out of their positions if they can’t do their jobs the way we want them to.
I hover over my Sons and their teachers like a hawk. Making sure that they know I’m watching everything. Nothing has come up yet but when it does, it’ll get ugly.
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