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Even if you don't like everything in the new Texas curriculum, the crudely partisan tone of the likes of Senator Leland Yee illustrate how the direction of the public education system has already been politicized by the virulent left.
1 posted on 05/22/2010 5:36:10 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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It’s been skewed for years. Now it’s set straight.


2 posted on 05/22/2010 5:37:25 PM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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OMG! - A partisan vote!!

How often is a Conservative voice ever heard when it comes to public indoctrination centers?


3 posted on 05/22/2010 5:37:56 PM PDT by Kandy Atz ("Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want for bread.")
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California should have two sets of textbooks.

One written in Spanglish and the other written in Ebonics.


4 posted on 05/22/2010 5:38:27 PM PDT by Carley (WE CAN SEE NOVEMBER FROM OUR HOUSE)
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History can be changed? Why didn’t someone tell me this before the last presidential election?


5 posted on 05/22/2010 5:41:27 PM PDT by Libloather (Tea totaler, PROUD birther, mobster, pro-lifer, anti-warmer, enemy of the state, extremist....)
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I’m going to boycott Kali for the rest of my life. That “state” bewilders the bejeezus out of me.


7 posted on 05/22/2010 5:43:09 PM PDT by 3boysdad (My cartoons of Muhammad are the best!)
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Yee is so silly. Of course there are ONLY TWO KINDS OF MUSIC ~ Country, and, of course, Western!~

He can't seriously want Hip Hop in there as something of lasting value ~ ?!

8 posted on 05/22/2010 5:43:54 PM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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Mr. Yee continued “We here in California do not have to stick to the dull old reality. Our children deserve a more creative approach to history. It can be any way we want it, why stick to facts.”


9 posted on 05/22/2010 5:44:22 PM PDT by McGavin999 (Illegal is not a race, it is a crime)
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It's gettin' to be time to take out the trash.

11 posted on 05/22/2010 5:44:56 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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""While some Texas politicians may want to set their educational standards back 50 years, California should not be subject to their backward curriculum changes," said Yee. "The alterations and fallacies made by these extremist conservatives are offensive to our communities and inaccurate of our nation´s diverse history. Our kids should be provided an education based on facts and that embraces our multicultural nation."

So, Leland baby, how's that multiculturalism working out for ya?
How's your economy these days?
Here in Texas, unermployment is at an all-time high... of about 6%!

12 posted on 05/22/2010 5:45:30 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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If Kalipronia would quit selling out it’s taxpayers with illegals, welfare and environazi cow crap they could afford their own textbooks.......in spanish !

We are a republic, not a democracy is back in the books I am told !


13 posted on 05/22/2010 5:46:07 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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...reducing the scope of Latino history...

Oh the horror! ;-/

...encouraging students to question the legal doctrine of separation of church and state...

We can't have student questioning things, they need to blindly accept what they're told. Look how well that worked out in Germany in the 1930s.

terms such as "capitalism" replaced with "free market;"

Dang, they're onto us. We need to keep using terms with negative connotations (at least to some) like "capitalism" -- can't let them be associated with "freedom."

labeling civil rights programs that protect women and people of color as having adverse "unintended consequences;"

Because we all know there were no unintended consequences, right? When the government acts, it is with the precision of a surgeon... :-/

...emphasis on "the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s," including favorable mentions of the Eagle Forum, Moral Majority, Heritage Foundation, the National Rifle Association and New Gingrich´s Contract With America;

Oh no! We know these organizations, love 'em or hate 'em, have no redeeming values and therefore must be demonized according to the current libtard playbook.

more positive portrayal of Cold War anticommunism;

I am an old cold-warrior. You better believe there is a positive note there. To paraphrase odumber: we won.

labeling Confederate General Stonewall Jackson as a role model for effective leadership and a statement from Confederate President Jefferson Davis to accompany a statement from President Abraham Lincoln;

If you cannot let yourself recognize what someone is doing right or successfully, whether you agree with them on issues or not, you limit yourself -- you cannot learn from them. Gen. Jackson, love him or hate him, was very good, very effective. Get over it. Besides, I'm no sure the right side won that one.

to include country and western music among nation´s important cultural movements while dropping hip-hop from the same list.

OK, that one I don't get. Yes, country music is an important influence. I would say hip hop is also.

16 posted on 05/22/2010 5:54:14 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (obama out now! I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom - you can keep the change.)
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The problem is that the teachers who sit on Texas textbook committees are often as liberal as this guy. Education colleges are very liberal in their views, and they take intelligent people and turn their brains into mush.


17 posted on 05/22/2010 5:55:41 PM PDT by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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You can tell when you hit the liberals where it counts, the screams are deafening.
18 posted on 05/22/2010 5:55:54 PM PDT by Paperpusher
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LOL California won’t be able to afford enough text books to demand that makers write them just for them. There is nothing wrong with what Texas is doing everything I’ve read and heard sounds very reasonable to me. Who exactly is it that thinks hiphop belongs in histroy books? *eyeroll* And if Barrack Hussein Obama is not to be listed does that mean that now MLK is just Martin King now? Get a grip people!


19 posted on 05/22/2010 5:57:42 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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This is an EXCELLENT article in that it gives us Conservatives a guide on what to talk to our kids about, such as the adverse effects of the Civil Rights movement, etc.


20 posted on 05/22/2010 6:04:04 PM PDT by BobL
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Senator Leland Yee (PH.D.) represents San Francisco and San Mateo County.

He earned a bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley, a master’s from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. in Child Psychology from the University of Hawaii.

Connect the dots


22 posted on 05/22/2010 6:06:30 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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"The idea that politicians in another state can control the content of our textbooks should trouble all Californians," said Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco).

What a joke. As a former curriculum director, I assure you that California has dictated the content of many public school texts for years. Any large state that has statewide textbook adoptions has publishers scrambling to design texts for them. For years California has pulled the textbook market to the left. Now they cry when another state tries to right the ship.

23 posted on 05/22/2010 6:09:02 PM PDT by Faith
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And we all know how well the California Education system is working, I mean they really are putting out highly educated students right. If anyone here ever wastes their time by visiting Mexifornia, assume everyone you meet under 40 is DUMBER THAN DIRT, AND THE PROUDEST MORON YOU WILL EVER MEET. You will be right 90% of the time and never disappointed. I will say this for Publik Skewl Gradjewets, They can put a Condom on a cucumber faster than anyone on the planet, they start teaching Condom Placement in the 2nd grade. Sadly thats all they teach.


24 posted on 05/22/2010 6:12:00 PM PDT by eyeamok
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Hey California! Design your own textbooks. You’re rolling in the good times. You can afford it!


27 posted on 05/22/2010 6:40:53 PM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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"The alterations and fallacies made by these extremist conservatives are offensive to our communities and inaccurate of our nation´s diverse history."


28 posted on 05/22/2010 6:44:32 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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