Wow..Really?Texas cutting school curriculum, Jefferson apparently doesnt matter? Options

[CelicaST_CALI]

BBC link
Texas schools to get controversial syllabus


Texas' decisions could influence curriculums across the US

Education officials in the US state of Texas have adopted new guidelines to the school curriculum, which critics say will politicise teaching.

The changes include teaching that the UN could be a threat to American freedom, and that the Founding Fathers may not have intended a complete separation of church and state.

Critics say the changes are ideological and distort history.

However, proponents argue they are redressing a liberal bias in education.

Analysts say Texas, with five million schoolchildren, wields substantial influence on school curriculums across the US.

The BBC's Rajesh Mirchandani in Los Angeles says publishers of textbooks used nationally often print what Texas wants to teach.
Jefferson out

Students in Texas will now be taught the benefits of US free-market economics and how government taxation can harm economic progress.

They will study how American ideals benefit the world but organisations such as the UN could be a threat to personal freedom.

And Thomas Jefferson has been dropped from a list of enlightenment thinkers in the world-history curriculum, despite being one of the Founding Fathers who is credited with developing the idea that church and state should be separate.

The doctrine has become a cornerstone of US government, but some religious groups and some members of the Texas Education Board disagree, our correspondent says.

The board, which is dominated by Christian conservatives, voted nine-to-five in favour of adopting the new curriculum for both primary and secondary schools.

But during the discussions some of the most controversial ideas were dropped - including a proposal to refer to the slave trade as the "Atlantic triangular trade".

Opponents of the changes worry that textbooks sold in other states will be written to comply with the new Texas standards, meaning that the alterations could have an impact on curriculums nationwide.

This post has been edited by CelicaST_CALI: May 31, 2010 - 3:49 AM

[Supersprynt]

He was born in Connecticut because his father was going to Yale, that's the only reason.

The majority of Americans did not vote him the first time. He lost the popular vote, but because we have this ingenious thing called the electoral college, he was voted into office. See this isn't a true democracy (shocker!), and the electoral college actually votes in the President. Then we go around the world and tell them their system of government sucks and they should be a democracy when in fact we're not even a democracy in the first place (U.S. is a republic).

I suggest everyone in Texas start voting for people with some sort of intelligence, because if this continues, you are definitely to blame. The bible is not a textbook, and the textbooks should not be bibles. This affects the entire country.

Don't vote for whoever follows the same religion, or is the same color, or whose a "liberal" or a "conservative". These labels mean nothing and its all bullsh!t to make you think one way or the other.

Oh and anybody who watches Fox "news": stop it. 95% of what they say can easily be discredited. If you watch Glen Beck and don't think to yourself "this guy's totally off his rocker" you should really help the human race and take a long walk off a short pier.

Edited for more awesome.

This post has been edited by Supersprynt: Jun 9, 2010 - 1:03 PM