Texas Conservatives Revise School Textbooks

No, he cannot.

I think he must mean "liberals have been *making* history for the past 40 years." Without progression, there'd be no history.

liberals are too worried not to offend to move forward

i find that offensive, but within the 'community standards and guidelines', so knock yourself out.

Okay, so you hate political correctness. Yet it's a fact that progressives/liberals are the ones who bring about progress.

If it were up to traditionalists, women wouldn't be able to vote, blacks couldn't marry whites, and sodomy would be a sin.

Soon, we'll have reformed healthcare & gay marriage. ALLLLLL thanks to the liberals you love to hate. (But it's never fun to be on the losing side, so I understand your plight.)

@GodsnLiberals -
Yes Conservatives - if conservatives had their way, they'd be making all the money - and most of the economy would shut down - because that's what happens when a very few are making the money (healthy, robust economy happens when everybody is contributing). Conservatives don't understand this, of course. They don't understand it because they haven't thought it all out.

The well-off, conserv-Os would then retreat to their Estates and Baron-ships which would consist of a stone rookery by a stream or river somewhere. They'd have a few serfs around to do the work, they'd have cheezy jewelery and bad teeth; and they have some serf-wifes to slip away with and feel up as they pleased.

That is the absolute destiny of an all conservative mandate.

BECAUSE: The nature of money is a social instrument. Healthy economy requires everyone to make the money. Money becomes weak unless everyone is getting some.

Every dollar you will ever see, has someone else on the other side of it. They gave it to you for some reason - goods and services. If they are not contributing or you are not contributing, things go bad. And remember, money can be used and is most often used by "conservatives" to not contribute. It allows them a possibly easy life, which is the reason they seem so concerned about money. And the easier the life, the less they do. (Unfortunately, the easier you have it, means the less you make of yourself - to the point of having missed you own potential as a man, but that's another story)

Money has absolutely NO VALUE what-so-ever other than as a medium of exchange - that means other people having it and having a fully successful life and that makes money, social.

And, as it happens, that world brings a better and more enriching life to all, conservatives, firstly. Better products, better services, better healthcare, better toys - I can go on. You WANT those liberals to be bringing you a better life.

So put that in your 'conservative' pipe. - Your good life depends on balance. All 'conservative' = all out-of-balance.

lol all of the intelligent americans go to school in canada and europe

Sad to say but true.
When I had to take my GCE and A Level exit exams in Britain, I were studying for almost a year to get a decent score ... which I got, but it was hell obtaining it.

Lets just say there were a lot of nights staying up until the break of dawn revising nearly four years of notes and calculations.
Oh yeah I also spent it drinking a lot of tea and eating a tonne of jammy dodgers.

Anyway when I decided to attend college in the States my adviser at NYU told me it would give me an edge if I took the SATs.

I were thinking damn another few months of studying ... but to my surprise it was an 8th grade quiz ....
I walked out of the SATs thinking, " I hope that was the right test, because that was too easy."

I were thinking how in the hell do people drop out of school in the States, when their college entrance exam is so damn easy.
I have 14 year old cousins in Britain that will make the SATs look as if it were a open book pop quiz.

OK, Mr. "you wear [sic] considered slow" - students learn math just like you did, but in grade school. Then, when you get to higher math, you have to have learned the basics, but to avoid wasting time and with the objective being to work on higher APPLICATIONS of math, it saves time to use a calculator. So while you are working out your adding and subtracting, we are working on complex solutions to world problems - yes, using calculators, but kicking your ass, nonetheless.

I was in a similar situation I went to to primary school in France after spending my first 3 years of schooling in a top quality new york city school. My first memory is of my dad frantically trying to speed up my education (age 9 btw) and was teaching me physics and mathematical equations before we moved over to Marseilles. I was appreciative of his effort because like you said school is no joke over in europe. Its 6 days a week and they don't have time for add (its kinda a joke over there that americans even bother with such crap), or you being unable to understand its just pure uninhibited, unbiased, socratic education plus we did study physics. Anyway I stayed for 5 years just before my lycee years and the baccalauréat which I'm pretty sure no american 18 year old would ever pass (not even the so called gifted ones).
So I come back to states at 14 move to a suburb in a nice neighborhood and was floored at what they teach 14 years olds in america, pretty much a fraction of what I learned when I started attending school in france at age 9 and I was learning italian as my other language while kids where learning their second language only in high school. I always giggled at the kids fumbling over basic spanish/french thinking wow I was doing this learning when we were doing latin/ancient greek language in french which was technically my second language to english. I kind of figured if these are the children of americans I could've been their parents boss already by age 16, my humor aside things in america are grim. I can see why america is full of people who for example are incapable of embracing progressive societal ideas because well they probably can't tell the difference between say socialism, communism, facism or capitalism let alone know the history of those ideas (don't even get me started on the study history in the US). This move in texas is almost like murder to me because they're doing it children, its as if these kids minds weren't already malnourished now they're just teaching them nonsense. I hope for those kids sake they never have to compete for a job with someone from Germany.

My point being is the american education system is so much of a joke there's no chance for an american to ever be on par with those in europe. To be honest if americans want to raise children of just average european standard they should either send their kids to lycee francais (for the low cost of $23,000 per year) or move their kids to europe which is incredibly cheaper. I know if I have children someday I'm likely to raise them in western europe for their own sake. I'm considering moving to Berlin in a few years so maybe it'll be the german system they go through...

When i raised my kids here in America My wife and I raised them in a very Jewish community. You know why? Those communities pay the local property tax it takes to educate their children better than any other group in America. In my town we over-rode tax limits imposed by state referendum because an education is the most you can do for your children and country. Most of the kids in he public high school were in AP courses the last two years of high school and most I have stayed in touch with breezed through college as well. My kids were Deans List students many times. Its all about the willingness to pay enough local taxes to make up for any shortfall and make sure the kids get the best education public money can buy. Thats why if you want a good education for your kids you move to a Jewish community. Oh yea I was raised in a Jewsih community fifty years ago and time has not changed a thing. Same values.
I'm not jewish McMahon

true but that only leaves upper middle class children and above to get better schools. Now if we spread the money from all taxes toward a majority improved general education then we can have the reforms.

well see its a "transition" from a liberal to a more conservative texts..(is that what this is about ?) its a revision..

well so if your classmates are stupid then well i guess you know what caused it.....and THAT IS THE REASON WHY ITS BEING REVISED

actually they should keep the books ALL OF THEM ..just get rid of those liberal teachers..those ward churchills are the real problem here..they were being paid to teach art and they spend the whole day yapping to kids about political bullshit

they were escaping out liberal educational system BUT NOW since we are transitioning back to the old conservative ways..they we are going back to the old powerhouse

you were drinking just tea... lol and my teachers told me not to take the sat's... they pretty much made me not do them. told me it wasn't important. so i went to college in canada and left the shitty school system :D

American schools fucking suck. and they only gotten worse. all this bullshit about liberal's and conservative means nothing

their use is still 'frowned on'...today we just use our blackberries.

canada has a great system, and an awesome 'quality of life'.

i know... i live in ottawa now :D

Spending per pupil should be exactly the same everywhere with the only exception being those areas of the United States where cost of living is higher to compensate teachers to encourage them to work there. But higher pay for competent teachers, funded through federal and state with property taxes at the local level the last resort. Those communities with a higher property tax base per student would recieve less in federal and state aid in relationship to those with less. A simple and workable solution.

I had a business law teacher in high school that was so bitter about his liberal colleagues, all he did in class was play conservative-tilt news stories he'd taped at home. The tests were all vocabulary and people got A's writing stories for definitions.

I didn't get any liberal pushers till college though...

Thanks for this

I'm generally with you on your train of thought, but people always lose me with zeitgeist. I'm an atheist, but any movie produced like propaganda loses all credibility for me immediately.

" the old conservative ways"... you mean where you blindly obey whatever your preacher tells you and never bother to think, let alone think for yourself... yeah, not much of a change for you is it?

liberal teachers? you mean replace secula pupblic teachers with religious christian ones? that's really all you're saying. since you can't hide the smell of shit you're trying to peddle for gold, don;t bother with glitter and bows...

I lol'd

oliver stone learned it from the best

You know, Hitler is scary, and nobody want to be compared to him, but just because he used these techniques it doesn't mean he invented it. Are you just trying to please the masses or do you really think Hitler is the root of all evil?

not only did hitler begin rewriting history, but all fascist goverments in history find it necessary to alter both history and even definitions, such as 'science.'

The poor in Iran are getting better conditions then the poor in Texas. Ahmadinejad might be an asshole but he is not nearly as bad as the republican'ts.

The truth be told Iran can claim some of the most educated people in the middle east south central asia region except Israel. Its actually part of the problems the rulers are having. An educated populace is good and bad when your inherintly evil. Good for they can see the truth bad because there will be bloodshed

iran is a shithole that executes cocky liberals and athiests.........go find comfort over there and they would ship you back here in mean old USA in separate bags.

or your telling me that is a revisionist's version of iran?????

"iran is a shithole that executes cocky liberals and athiests..." maybe that's WHY it's a shithole... also they execute christians, shinto, hindu, men, women, americans... pretty much anyone. maybe liberalism is just what they need. but then you don't even understand what liberalism means so you can't appreciate it, you're a moron.

in a facist state..you would be dead...are you dead??

maybe you should revised that to "you live in a state that does not give you what you want fast enough"

There's something funny here, gimme a second to put my finger on it...

WAIT! I GOT IT!

You're an ass who is too lazy to actually look up Randallr01's profile. Otherwise you'd know that Randallr01 lives in LA. And if you knew that then you are implying that you don't know jack about geography because LA is not located in the state of Texas. If you are not implying that Randallr01 lives in Texas, you should not say, "in a fascist state..you would be dead...are you dead??" If he is calling Texas a fascist state and he doesn't live there, then obviously your logical fallacy does not apply.

Also, your logical fallacy is that if you were a liberal person in a fascist state, you would be dead. If that were the case, then there would not have been any resistance within the area's occupied by fascist german forces during the second world war.

without liberalism ALL other systems MUST be fascist... that's the only other option. sorry, I know, too many big words for such a retard.

rofl

I have been told that I live in the wrong state many times. I have been invited to leave several times. It's just to much fun annoying the hell out of my fellow citizens.

thats like self mutiliation

yes but who ever has a problem with a few extra tattoos, a little scarification, or a little branding of ones self...

its fun...

I went to CA for an internship and wanted to move there because I never felt more at home than all my 24 yrs in TX. I want to leave, but if we all leave then TX will become an even more powerful conservative state. We have to fight here for change too.

LOL

Interesting , I live in Ca. and had business in Texas that kept me there for awhile, I felt like I had been transported back in time to the 50's or something..it was amazing how oblivious the people were to the changed attitudes we now have concerning race , sexual orientation, attitudes towards smoking in public places, restaurants etc...I was glad to get back home!

You only live once.

I went to Dallas and went out of the hotel. It was 113 degrees and a black woman - the only black person I saw, sat waiting for the bus. Maybe she worked at the hotel - I asked her what on earth she was doing in Texas. I told her to come to California where the air was sweet, weather was sweet and the people were sweet.

That's funny - I am from Texas and lived in California and thought how oblivious Californians were - they make assumptions based on what state you come from and have no social couth whatsoever. Besides, you probably didn't get a chance to visit Houston or Austin or San Antonio or any of the other cities that are racially, socially, economically and religiously diverse. It's like me visiting Compton and assuming the rest of California is the same.

Really? She was black and "maybe she worked for the hotel"? How racist is that? Ya, California people are so sweet - I use to date a CA guy who had never been to Texas - all he could talk about was how polite and friendly people in Texas were - it's called Southern Hospitality - CA should take a lesson.

She was a sweet person for what I could tell in the quick conversation.
There was a couple in the elevator - at that hotel - he was about mid 50s, had a leather rope neck-tie and big oval belt-buckle, cow-boy snakeskin boots, she was a bobble-head bimbo - they were in pure Texas-style!

And I'm the most not-racist person you might ever find to meet.

Not every time a black person or black people are mentioned or talked about in any context means racist.
Racist is when you speak at people and with colloquial ignorance. When you have prejudice. When you have unwarranted disrespect and based only on racial difference.

I wasn't saying that the hotel might not have allowed her as a guest - I suppose they'd take her money if she wanted to spend it there.

She was waiting for the bus and didn't appear to have throw away money - and I sensed would not have spent her money there in any case.

You could hardly breathe that air - and here, she was stuck in texas.

and ps HowdyDo - I'd been happy to bring her back to California.
And she'd a had no-com-plaints!

There was new asphalt parking against miles rolling weeds and dry grass. There was, I think some kind of stadium next door to the new hotel, both in red-brick that wrapped in circular exteriors. There was no place she could have been coming from - only waiting on the bus by the front doors.

Oh, how Plato would've backed you up on that one...

Haha, Plato was the kind of guy who walks around saying "we need to be ruled by philosophers...oh wait I'm a philosopher"

02 if you're caesar then I throw my hat in for corrupt influential rich roman guy. I wanna secure my voting power of course ;)

Everyone has a place at the table.

Yeah... but anytime history is "revised" is never a good thing.
But it goes without saying that public school text books are already fucked up as it is.

I laugh at the NYT... as if they never spin anything.

They can't. But even if they did they couldn't afford it. They need Federal funds to support the state and give them the opportunity to have a "bad guy" which they can rally the undereducated to support their agenda which ironically is directly opposed to those peoples own best interests. The slave is supporting its master.

right on!