Scholars: Proposed Texas Textbooks Distort History, Religion

[JakeStarkey]

Das Kapital and Adam Smith are part of economic history as are the Frankfort and Austrian schools of economics.

You cultural McCarthyites of the far right are not going to win this struggle, not anywhere near.

Das Kapital and the Frankfort school may be part of history, but so is Mein Kampf the Nazi party. The ideas of both the later are false.

So is the Declaration and the Constitution, my little buddy, and they need to be taught. The commie and nazi literary, historical, and political theories are not false as much as they are so very wrong. We had communist nations for longer than 90 years; Salazar ruled Portugal for almost fifty years as a fascist.

So goofy anarcho commies like you and reactionary far righties like M. D. and PC should thank your luck stars you live in America where you can be as goofy as you want and no one will come hurt you.

 

[JakeStarkey]

They are terms, some are schools of thought and some are actual schools.

As you well know.

More prevarication. The essence of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory is social deconstructionism.

Thank you for backing up and trying a new approach: the door is shut there.

I suspect that Clean Skousen, the John Birch Society, and the Freemen's Institute, which included schools of thought, are all on your 'stars' charts.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Another battle could be brewing over Texas textbooks, this time because scholars say the proposed lessons distort history.

New social studies books, on which the Texas State Board of Education is set to vote in November, promote pro-Christian religious and conservative political biases, according to a report released Wednesday from the nonprofit Texas Freedom Network Education Fund. History scholars argue in the report that a number of the books under consideration contain misleading information on topics like America’s founding and world religions.

The textbooks on American government, U.S. and world history, and religion in world history and geography were submitted by publishers including Pearson Education, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and McGraw-Hill Education. They were designed to fit Texas' curriculum standards for history, which some critics have charged contain their own conservative biases.

Ten scholars, including professors from Southern Methodist University and doctoral students from the University of Texas at Austin, were contracted by the Texas Freedom Network to review the textbooks. While the experts praised some of the books for navigating the state standards in a fair way, they criticized others for capitulating to political concerns and disregarding evidence.

"In all fairness, it's clear that the publishers struggled with these flawed standards and still managed to do a good job in some areas," said Kathy Miller, president of the TFN Education Fund, in a statement. "On the other hand, a number of textbook passages essentially reflect the ideological beliefs of politicians on the state board rather than sound scholarship and factual history."

Emile Lester, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington, took issue with much of the content he saw in the U.S. government textbooks. "The [State Board of Education] and these textbooks have collaborated to make students' knowledge of American history a casualty of the culture wars," he wrote in the report.

Lester specifically criticized a proposed Pearson textbook for "a treatment of affirmative action [that] verges on the offensive." He mentioned two cartoons (see below) in which space aliens discuss affirmative action. In a call with reporters on Wednesday, he said those cartoons "imply that recipients of affirmative action ... are un-American."

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The idiot left have spent years lying to students saying that Christianity had no part in the founding of America. Libtards are so stupid.

Yes, freedom of religious belief and freedom from religious oppression are part of our founding of America.

Bradford and Williams, Winthrop and Penn, Jay and Henry, Paine and Jefferson, Franklin And Allen, and so forth, son.

 

[Rikurzhen]

They are terms, some are schools of thought and some are actual schools.

As you well know.

More prevarication. The essence of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory is social deconstructionism.

Don't be laying so many big words on him, that's elder abuse.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Rik, M. D. and I at least understand them.

 

[blackhawk]

When all the left wing bias is out of the colleges get back to me on this topic.

 

[bripat9643]

Rik, M. D. and I at least understand them.

You obviously don't understand what the word "commie" means.

 

[bripat9643]

Das Kapital and Adam Smith are part of economic history as are the Frankfort and Austrian schools of economics.

You cultural McCarthyites of the far right are not going to win this struggle, not anywhere near.

Das Kapital and the Frankfort school may be part of history, but so is Mein Kampf the Nazi party. The ideas of both the later are false.

So is the Declaration and the Constitution, my little buddy, and they need to be taught. The commie and nazi literary, historical, and political theories are not false as much as they are so very wrong. .

They were "very wrong," but they weren't false?

We had communist nations for longer than 90 years; Salazar ruled Portugal for almost fifty years as a fascist.

Your point?

So goofy anarcho commies like you and reactionary far righties like M. D. and PC should thank your luck stars you live in America where you can be as goofy as you want and no one will come hurt you.

That's like telling a child he's lucky his father beats him instead of putting him in the oven.

Actually, you can't be "as goofy as you want to be." People lose their jobs all the time for saying the wrong thing. That's why I post anonymously on forums like this.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

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.




Ultraconservatives wielded their power over hundreds of subjects this week, introducing and rejecting amendments on everything from the civil rights movement to global politics.


This is representative of the reactionary, authoritarian extreme right, their fear of change and diversity, and their contempt for the truth and facts that conflict with errant, subjective conservative dogma.


And what is it exactly do these rightists hope to accomplish by seeking to hide and distort the facts and truth, are they so naïve and delusional as to believe that this will somehow succeed in keeping African-Americans, Hispanics, and other minorities marginalized, that they can stop Texas from becoming a more diverse and inclusive society along with the rest of the Nation.


Facts and the truth are self-evident, and will be known to Texas students eventually, in spite of the best efforts of conservatives to conceal them.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Das Kapital and Adam Smith are part of economic history as are the Frankfort and Austrian schools of economics.

You cultural McCarthyites of the far right are not going to win this struggle, not anywhere near.

Das Kapital and the Frankfort school may be part of history, but so is Mein Kampf the Nazi party. The ideas of both the later are false.

So is the Declaration and the Constitution, my little buddy, and they need to be taught. The commie and nazi literary, historical, and political theories are not false as much as they are so very wrong. .

They were "very wrong," but they weren't false?

We had communist nations for longer than 90 years; Salazar ruled Portugal for almost fifty years as a fascist.

Your point?

So goofy anarcho commies like you and reactionary far righties like M. D. and PC should thank your luck stars you live in America where you can be as goofy as you want and no one will come hurt you.

That's like telling a child he's lucky his father beats him instead of putting him in the oven.

Actually, you can't be "as goofy as you want to be." People lose their jobs all the time for saying the wrong thing. That's why I post anonymously on forums like this.

Will you do some reading, my fuzzy little goofball?

 

[bripat9643]

Das Kapital and Adam Smith are part of economic history as are the Frankfort and Austrian schools of economics.

You cultural McCarthyites of the far right are not going to win this struggle, not anywhere near.

Das Kapital and the Frankfort school may be part of history, but so is Mein Kampf the Nazi party. The ideas of both the later are false.

So is the Declaration and the Constitution, my little buddy, and they need to be taught. The commie and nazi literary, historical, and political theories are not false as much as they are so very wrong. .

They were "very wrong," but they weren't false?

We had communist nations for longer than 90 years; Salazar ruled Portugal for almost fifty years as a fascist.

Your point?

So goofy anarcho commies like you and reactionary far righties like M. D. and PC should thank your luck stars you live in America where you can be as goofy as you want and no one will come hurt you.

That's like telling a child he's lucky his father beats him instead of putting him in the oven.

Actually, you can't be "as goofy as you want to be." People lose their jobs all the time for saying the wrong thing. That's why I post anonymously on forums like this.

Will you do some reading, my fuzzy little goofball?

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[JakeStarkey]

Facts and the truth are self-evident, and will be known to Texas students eventually, in spite of the best efforts of conservatives to conceal them.

The hs and college dl teachers of history and social science have been through this before. They will make up lesson plans for inspection, then go teach as they wish. They will look at religion Christian and non- in he founding of the colonies as well as teaching the objective standard of separating church and state, using Madison and Jefferson's struggle with Henry in VA, and the secular nature of the Constitution.

 

[JakeStarkey]

bripat demonstrates he does not understand the Constitution or the cultural that supports it.

 

[Politico]

You mean they continued to spout leftwing lies and propaganda.

In other words, yes, Joe McCarthy was a great danger to the American Republic, and for the likes of you, he would have had you arrested, interrogated, and returned to Fargo.

Nope. McCarthy exposed the people who were a danger to the America Republic. They were all commies like you. That's why all commies hate McCarthy.

McCarthy went on a witch hunt and ruined a lot of lives until his own people drummed him out.

 

[bripat9643]

You mean they continued to spout leftwing lies and propaganda.

In other words, yes, Joe McCarthy was a great danger to the American Republic, and for the likes of you, he would have had you arrested, interrogated, and returned to Fargo.

Nope. McCarthy exposed the people who were a danger to the America Republic. They were all commies like you. That's why all commies hate McCarthy.

McCarthy went on a witch hunt and ruined a lot of lives until his own people drummed him out.

A witch hunt is where you persecute the innocent. McCarthy exposed the guilty. He ruined no lives - certainly not the life of any innocent person. All the people he called to testify were later confirmed to be communist spies.

 

[Politico]

Bahahaha!

 

[JakeStarkey]

Yeah, Joe M was a bad guy, and he would have jailed an anarcho commie like bripat

 

[bripat9643]

Yeah, Joe M was a bad guy, and he would have jailed an anarcho commie like bripat

McCarthy didn't jail anyone, you witless git.

 

[Vigilante]

It simply comes down to which do you think is the preferred lesson to teach your child, a perspective that this country has been living with for decades, or Common Core which, amongst other things teaches.....

 

[JakeStarkey]

Give us a link for the photo shop.

A principal of a local charter high school that I serve as a board member presented a series of such images being emailed to the parents from crazies like Vigilante. She then showed the crazy far right organization from which the images had originated and had been distributed.

She then compared the images with the common core standards. The parents, many professional and religious, made it clear that they would prevent such far right crap from entering their homes, encouraged the principal and directors of the school to do the same, and have since been visiting with USOE and high school board members to keep that trash out of of SLC public education.