Jon Carroll { Teach your children not so well }

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 5/26/10 | Jon Carroll

[SmithL]

I'm not worried about the children of Texas, although maybe I should be. No matter what their Board of Education says, the truth is out there. The wishing-makes-it-so approach of the board is, I hope, futile, a rearguard action fought by frightened people. It's all nostalgia, which comes from a Greek word meaning "homesickness." These school board tea-baggers want to go home again, except home has moved and left no forwarding address.

[SmithL]

And what do they teach in San Francisco?

[Carley]

San Francisco teaches teabagging.

[ClearCase_guy]

This is just full of vitriol and inaccuracies. The Left is truly ugly.

[darkangel82]

What does some in SF know about Texas? Nothing.

[rhombus]

So what did the Texas Board of Education do this year? Well, first it forbade the using of the terms of C.E. and B.C.E., meaning "Christian era" and "before Christian era,"....

Nah, I always thought CE meant "Common Era" and BCE meant Before the "Common" era not "Christian" era. Any quick search on Google will show that. Good thing kids aren't listening to this guy.

[ontap]

I haven’t heard anything about any ban on Thomas Jefferson!

[MadJack]

I would say this guy can go pound sand up his a$$, but his boyfriend’s most likely in the way.

[Tax-chick]

Anyone who says “teabagger” must be presumed to be a disgusting pervert, unless they can prove they’re just hawg-stupid.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

"What do they teach in San Francisco?

Answer: Sodomy, sedition, treason, drug addiction, pornography, Leninism, Che, Mao and a few other things.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Conservatives don't much like Jefferson because he wrote favorably about the separation of church and state."

Do you mean the Jefferson that wrote this:

"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State."

Notice how that when Jefferson's writings are not taken out of context by idiot writers like this, the reader can clearly see that when Jefferson was talking about a wall. of separation between church and state, he was referring to the legislature not making a law establishing a religion. The wall was a one way wall in his mind. He never intended that people should be prohibited from exercising their religion in public places. He would be appalled at what big government does to surpress free expression of religion today.

Also, I can't believe that these new textbooks take Jefferson out of them. That would be ridiculous because he was a very important founder. I think this guy is lying...

[Oratam]

It's funny how he sets up a straw-man (the 'nostalgia' angle) then argues against it. I'm not going to go back and read his drivel a second time but did he use the ol' lib smear against 'Ozzie & Harriet'? Probably not as his audience would have no idea what it meant.

The Texas school board has made a courageous stand against a half-century of 'progessive' lies and half-truths. All the marxists in academia should feel threatened. Their strangle-hold is beginning to loosen.

For Jon's sake, I hope the AZT cocktail is working.

[Nahanni]

I think what the Board of Education did is great! Anything that will keep the California and other bleu state leftist vermin from moving here is wonderful.

Montana and Idaho need to start enacting laws such as the Arizona Immigration Law and the using the Texas Board of Education approved textbooks soon because they are in danger of being totally run over by the leftist vermin that are leaving the sinking ships that are the bleu states and moving there.

[El Cid]

I don't know the details of what the Texas School Board has done, but I do know that the California school text books are a travesty. They denigrate America, and the Founding Fathers. The common thread running through their exposition of history is that Western Civilization is bad, and all other pagan Civilizations are wonderful.

If the Texan School Board has agitated these folks at the San Francisco Chronicle, I can only presume that they are doing the right thing. God Bless them. They can be assured that the god of this world (Satan) and his minions in the media will be gnashing their teeth and throwing rocks at them.

[chris_bdba]

Only inyour mind wacko! History is history no matter what your side thinks. There is only one truth and it does not belong to you.

[a fool in paradise]

It wasn’t a ban on Thomas Jefferson, it was a determination of which courses he would and wouldn’t be included in.

For example, Joseph Stalin is NOT discussed in the same course as Joe McCarthy. Seems to me, it is difficult to talk about the threat caused by the Red Scare and Stalinism when you cannot address the horrors of Communism and the butchery of Joseph Stalin. But then, that’s just my take.