Sounds like William F. Buckley's wish is going to come true, at least in Texas:
"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston [Dallas?] telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."
Texas has their school curriculum determined by dentists and realtors (but no historians!) who remove Thomas Jefferson from the curriculum.
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When are they going to actually go ahead and secede? I can't say I'd miss them, sorry... (I'm not actually serious - I realize that some great Texans were putting up a noble fight against this BS)
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There are seven members of the conservative bloc on the board, but they are often joined by one of the other three Republicans on crucial votes. There were no historians, sociologists or economists consulted at the meetings, though some members of the conservative bloc held themselves out as experts on certain topics.
The conservative members maintain that they are trying to correct what they see as a liberal bias among the teachers who proposed the curriculum. To that end, they made dozens of ***** changes aimed at calling into question, among other things, concepts like the separation of church and state and the secular nature of the American Revolution.
“I reject the notion by the left of a constitutional separation of church and state,” said David Bradley, a conservative from Beaumont who works in real estate. “I have $1,000 for the charity of your choice if you can find it in the Constitution.”
They also included a plank to ensure that students learn about “the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s, including Phyllis Schlafly, the Contract With America, the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority and the National Rifle Association.”
"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston [Dallas?] telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."
Texas has their school curriculum determined by dentists and realtors (but no historians!) who remove Thomas Jefferson from the curriculum.
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When are they going to actually go ahead and secede? I can't say I'd miss them, sorry... (I'm not actually serious - I realize that some great Texans were putting up a noble fight against this BS)
:dunno:
Excerpt:
There are seven members of the conservative bloc on the board, but they are often joined by one of the other three Republicans on crucial votes. There were no historians, sociologists or economists consulted at the meetings, though some members of the conservative bloc held themselves out as experts on certain topics.
The conservative members maintain that they are trying to correct what they see as a liberal bias among the teachers who proposed the curriculum. To that end, they made dozens of ***** changes aimed at calling into question, among other things, concepts like the separation of church and state and the secular nature of the American Revolution.
“I reject the notion by the left of a constitutional separation of church and state,” said David Bradley, a conservative from Beaumont who works in real estate. “I have $1,000 for the charity of your choice if you can find it in the Constitution.”
They also included a plank to ensure that students learn about “the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s, including Phyllis Schlafly, the Contract With America, the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority and the National Rifle Association.”
