Tennessee Tea Party Wants Slavery Removed From School Textbooks To Make Founding Fathers Look Good

I just can't ignore this one!
Back in 1994, we brought our boys down to Florida, as my husband had to medically retire. We moved from way northern NY where education really mattered.
My eldest was just entering 9th & had done an indepth study of the Civil War just before he moved. In fact, he loved the topic, so he actually knew the subject. He got to Plant city High & they were just then teaching the abbreviated, non-truth version of "the war between the states." Florida was already re-writing history way back then. Apparently, it was never required to teach facts---just the southern version.
Now, they only teach to one test, FCAT, and give all power to it. They teach reading, writing, math, and very little history, at all. My kindergarten grandboy already knows what a rhombus is, but can't add or subtract. When I asked about this, I was told they must learn these things for the 3rd grade FCAT. Saturday, I learned that they do "Saturday school," to get them all ready to pass that one test. The students, teachers & schools are either punished or rewarded based on the FCAT results.
My younger son had perfect attendance for most of his 12 years, good grades, no behavior issues, but did not test well---first year of FCAT. He received a certificate of graduation, but NOT the Florida diploma.
No, they don't teach facts or truth in the south. Teachers are already forced to ignore knowledge in favor of the state's political agenda.

ABSOLUTE TRUTH

Ignorance is multiplying faster than ever!

They need some well deserved lumps with their tea. Orwellian bastards!

it's sad really. They don't even realize the world has passed them by because they cling to their ignorance. The tragedy is that everyone knows this except themselves.

All they are doing is providing footnotes to their own demise. I say let them babble and beat their chests as the continuously try to validate an obsolete culture.

The world will progress just fine without them.

Rewrite history. Next they will claim the earth is flat.

Funny.... Nope they should leave that part in there, they should go a little more into indentured servitude and how for the majority of Americas first (non slave) colonialists, it was their only way to get here....

Not like it matters, I strongly feel that the fact that America heavily relies on slave labor in 3rd. world countries to this day should be a pretty serious focus too. (of course that might take a little away from the whole "North good, South bad" doctrine they still like to teach.... Really there aren't to many "corporate headquarters" down south....)

They need to get their teeth fixed before they make demands like this.

Yes, and we also should be enraged about the rewriting and the eroding of the Constitution as well, done by both, Bush and Obama.

How can you re-write what you don't know?

If it's OK to change reality with a pen, then let's re-write the present reality and exclude the Tennessee tea party from it.

While we're changing history in order to make the founding fathers look good, let's update those hideous wigs while we're at it!

" Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. "

George Orwell

These people are owned by the far-right-money-bags, the cock, err, koch brothers, etc. This is more of the same with these people, the revisionism of history to fit with their ideology. the founders were perfect infallible bible-thumpin-fundies, were laissez-faire-free-marketeers, etc, etc. More of the same.

the teabaggers didn't know what the boston tea party was about; now they are saying slavery didn't exist? what a bunch of dumbasses

--Facepalm--

This is trully sickening. The founding fathers already have enough false information about them so indoctrinated into our educational system it's hard to tell what the truth about these men really is in some cases. "I cannot tell a lie" was a lie. Washington is already diefied in many places in Washington DC like the painting on the cieling of the rotunda of the Library of Congress where he portrayed as "Zeuslike" diety surrounded by chiors of angels and other Roman/Greek gods... How much better do we really need to make them look.

You want to make the founding fathers look good, then do everything you can to make this nation better and stronger and show the world that what they believed in was worthwhile instead of masking the truth thereby tarnishing thier real legacy.

Next, these "nice folks" will want to rewrite the bible. You know, to be sure that the god-less-heathens do not misunderstand it, or try to use it against the "nice folks."

What is wrong with these people? History is history and the truth is the truth.