Ignorance is Bliss in Texas

from BeyondChron:



Ignorance is Bliss in Texas
by Tommi Avicolli-Mecca‚ May. 25‚ 2010


They say that ignorance is bliss. Nowhere is that more evident than in Texas where the State Board of Education has completed a new history and social studies curriculum that has nothing to do with learning and everything to do with promoting the Bible, the Confederacy and free enterprise. Not to mention exclusion of people of color and others that right-wingers don’t like.

The change could have national impact as Texas, with its 4.8 million students, is a major market and textbook publishers often use the books produced for that state for other places as well.

As Ben Jealous, president of the NAACP, said: “It’s going to lock kids into the dark ages, where the whole world’s been turned upside down -- where Thomas Jefferson is not a founding father, there’s no good reason to talk about Thurgood Marshall, and Joe McCarthy is a hero.”

The Board is “changing the record on slavery, celebrating the confederacy and shedding a positive light on Jim Crow laws,” he said. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=8153

Kinda says it all. Most right wingers around here make fun of anybody who's "too smart". Lord, it's like they never left high school. It's like they have competitions to see who's dumber this week.

LTE today blames congress for the BP leak and says that drilling's ok cause their accident rate is low. Wouldn't have happened if the gov't hadn't tried to get into BP's business. Never know we're 20 miles from Seattle -- and 150 years.

Online or electronic versions of the book that are etitible.

If you want to punish Texas, and the publishers who bend over for them, then demand electronic versions of the books. If no US publishers have them then look overseas to the UK or Canada (which has a HUGE publishing industry). Don't buy the TexAss books.

Better to buy nothing and put the money ANYWHERE else than to buy that dreck.



Publishers - please note - there are people like me on every school board in the nation and we ARE watching. If you cowtow to this shit you will pay.

The Lone Brain cell State......