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Texas ed board vote reflects far-right influences (total AP MELTDOWN!!!)
AP / Yahoo ^ | March 12, 2010 | April "Fidel" Castro

Posted on 03/12/2010 9:11:56 PM PST by bamahead

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To: FlingWingFlyer

Yep, what a concept. I thank the conservatives who have fought this battle for years in Texas and will continue to do so.


61 posted on 03/13/2010 2:41:02 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: rbbeachkid
OOOOOh nOOOOOO, Mister Bill!!!!!

Have you ever wondered why we never see replays of those hilarious Mr. Bill skits?

62 posted on 03/13/2010 2:44:45 AM PST by REPANDPROUDOFIT (General, sir, it's ok to call me "ma'am"!)
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To: apillar

BINGO!

It’s about frickin’ time!

I just wonder if this sea change in the textbook committee political make-up is a result of something like Beck’s 9/12 Project, Tea Partiers or if Rick Perry caused it to happen. To womever did it, kudos....hell, GIANT KUDOS!!

When conservatives assert themselves, they (we) win!


63 posted on 03/13/2010 3:26:32 AM PST by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants).......)
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To: bamahead
Fort Worth Republican Pat Hardy, a longtime teacher, voted for the new standards, but said she wished the board could work with a more cooperative spirit. "What we've done is we've taken a document that by nature is too long to begin with and then we've lengthened it some more," Hardy said, shortly after the vote. "Those long lists of names that we've put in there ... it's just too long.
"I just think we failed to keep that in mind, it's hard for teachers to get through it all."
. . . and if you think it's too long for the teachers . . .

Basically you're faced with the "If 'everything is important' then nothing is important" problem.


64 posted on 03/13/2010 3:28:22 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion ( DRAFT PALIN)
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To: bamahead
Teachers in Texas will be required to cover the Judeo-Christian influences of the nation's Founding Fathers, but not highlight the philosophical rationale for the separation of church and state. Curriculum standards also will describe the U.S. government as a "constitutional republic," rather than "democratic," and students will be required to study the decline in value of the U.S. dollar, including the abandonment of the gold standard.
"We have been about conservatism versus liberalism," said Democrat Mavis Knight of Dallas, explaining her vote against the standards. "We have manipulated strands to insert what we want it to be in the document, regardless as to whether or not it's appropriate."
In the nature of things, nobody is going to think that things they don't agree with should be taught in school. Your problem is that everyone else doesn't agree with you, so things you don't think are "appropriate" are being considered.
Democrats did score a victory by deleting a portion of an amendment by Republican Don McLeroy suggesting that the civil rights movement led to "unrealistic expectations for equal outcomes."
Just save time and decide to teach the writings of Thomas Sowell!

65 posted on 03/13/2010 3:37:42 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion ( DRAFT PALIN)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Here’s that keeper quote from McCormick.

“...TO FURNISH THAT CHECK UPON GOVERNMENT WHICH NO CONSTITUTION HAS EVER BEEN ABLE TO PROVIDE.”


66 posted on 03/13/2010 3:37:49 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: bamahead
"Teachers in Texas will be required to cover the Judeo-Christian influences of the nation's Founding Fathers, but not highlight the philosophical rationale for the separation of church and state."

Weren't the Founding Fathers influenced by Judeo-Christian philosophy? So, what AP is saying is that in Texas, teacher will be required to teach history truthfully. The horror.

67 posted on 03/13/2010 3:52:13 AM PST by Jabba the Nutt (Are they insane, stupid or just evil?)
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To: bamahead
"A far-right faction of the Texas State Board of Education succeeded Friday in injecting conservative ideals into social studies, history and economics lessons that will be taught to millions of students for the next decade."

Where was the outcry in the press when radical leftists decided to inject Marxist, anti-American revisionism into the vast majority of textbooks across the entire nation? Typical school textbooks today express views that are to the left of at least 90% of Americans. Are we supposed to see that as fair?

How about we make a deal: Texas will remove any conservative ideas from Texan textbooks, if the other 49 states will remove all the radical leftist ideas from their textbooks?

68 posted on 03/13/2010 4:24:42 AM PST by FenwickBabbitt
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To: bamahead
Don't mess with Texas!

Thank-you conservatives for pressing on!!....I believe the tide is turning!

69 posted on 03/13/2010 4:34:48 AM PST by Guenevere (....)
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To: bamahead

“I pledge alliegance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands......”


70 posted on 03/13/2010 4:48:05 AM PST by Nextrush (Slocialist Republicans and Socialist Democrats must go)
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To: bamahead

April Castro considers the truth “far right” so I presume she is a communist..............has the right name to pull it off too ;-)


71 posted on 03/13/2010 5:30:54 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINOS)
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To: huldah1776

Possible, but not many true conservatives are members of the NEA. I’m not, nor ever will be.


72 posted on 03/13/2010 6:17:52 AM PST by brewferr
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To: JerseyDvl

“Representative Republic” is actually redundant.


73 posted on 03/13/2010 7:19:11 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny
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To: bamahead

A far-right factioncommon sense group of the State Board of Education succeeded Friday in injecting conservative ideals into social studies, history and economics lessons that will be taught to millions of students for the next decade.


OK it is fixed!

74 posted on 03/13/2010 7:53:27 AM PST by Nat Turner (Escaped from NY in 1983 and not ever going back....)
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"We have been about conservatism versus liberalism," said Democrat Mavis Knight of Dallas, explaining her vote against the standards. "We have manipulated strands to insert what we want it to be in the document, regardless as to whether or not it's appropriate."

Yes, you have. And now, WE'VE fixed it. Refreshingly honest for a liberal! Seriously, how does she think the stuff that's being removed got in there?

75 posted on 03/13/2010 7:55:17 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: utherdoul
Wait AP wants us to lie to children? Who would have thought ... honestly I wish I’d gone to that school.

This isn't just 'a' school. This is a Texas state board setting curriculum standards for every school in the state! (Private schools included I assume)

76 posted on 03/13/2010 7:56:56 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: huldah1776
Would it be possible for conservatives to infiltrate the NEA?

Possible, but difficult. How many conservatives are going to be willing to sit through years of Marxist indoctrination in ed school? And how many of them will be flunked out along the way because they can't or won't parrot lies well enough?

77 posted on 03/13/2010 8:00:21 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: re_nortex

Ahh.....Bob Wills.


78 posted on 03/13/2010 8:03:28 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: JerseyDvl
I thought the correct term was Representative Republic. Am I wrong?

Either term is correct. They're just highlighting different truths.

79 posted on 03/13/2010 8:05:19 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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FYI ping


80 posted on 03/13/2010 8:59:40 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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