You Had To See This Coming
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You knew she wasn’t going to be able to stay quiet about it.
She decided to be the last to weigh-in on the Texas School Board. She knew it was going to get dumber. It, of course, did.
McLeroy wanted “to focus just on the enlightenment folks,” he said. “The enlightenment, the way I understand it, are the ones like Montesquieu, Locke, Hobbes, all those folks. And Jefferson was in another generation. The founders were building on the enlightenment.”
McLeroy said he wanted students to learn that the French Revolution was built on different ideals than the American Revolution.
“In the Americas,” he said, “it had a different basis. I’m not the scholar that can just pop those things out, I just have my general impressions.”
“I am not a hairdresser who can just pop these hairdos out,” Juanita says, “I just have my general impressions of what to cut next and that’s why your new do looks like crap.”
Thomas Jefferson has been removed from Texas school books because he wasn’t a Christian. We also cannot discuss the enlightenment because that just might make little children think for themselves. It didn’t stop there.
“Everything was about Religion. There was one [amendment] that said Battle of San Jacinto gave religious freedom. And one lady in the audience came up to me later and said ‘religious freedom? That’s when the Texas Rangers began hanging the Hispanics.
And to prove Juanita’s theory that conservatives are far too obsessed with s-e-x to be having a healthy s-e-x life of their very own —-
A discussion over gender roles was even more puzzling. The current curriculum asks students to examine how the traditional roles of men and women had changed since the 1950’s. But the seven staunch conservatives on the board said the feared the text would promote trans-sexualism and sex change operations.
“Yes, siree, if we explain that women in the same job as a man make 80% as much money, Little Johnnie will rush right out to have his winkie removed so he, too, can charmingly make less money,” Juanita laments.
“Honey, they’ve cornered the market on cornpone,” she sighs.
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For me, the most interesting line from the HuffPo article was…”…two other board members have also chosen to either home-school or send their children to private schools”. OK, why would folks who don’t send their kids thru the public school system have that kind of influence on the kids who do?
1If ignorance is truly bliss there is a large amount of that stuff piling up around the Texas school board. The rapture hasn’t arrived yet, they just think it’s here.
2God, it’s embarrassing to be from Texas. I used to be proud of being a Texan, but the past few years have just made that impossible. I now claim I live in Baja Oklahoma.
3Dumb and dumber doesn’t even begin to fit that group! Just when I thought things in Texas couldn’t get more “stupider”, they always seem able to surprise me. Being a Texan, ( in another state, thank goodness ), I’m ashamed to say I was born there. That one little group of “teh stupid” has wayyyyyyyyy too much power in their hands! Surely, the rest of the states will not go along with them……….will they??
4From the Texas Education Agency website:
“A document containing the extensive revisions will be posted on the Texas Education Agency website and posted in the Texas register by mid-April. Once posted, the official 30-day public comment period will begin. At that time, comments with suggested changes to the document can be sent to rules@tea.state.tx.us.
The board will then consider additional updates and final adoption at its May meeting.”
We all need to read the document once it is posted and then comment. Let the Board members know just how we feel about them rewriting history. I have been telling everyone I know and will remind them about it once the document has been posted on the website. This has made me so angry, especially since some of the Board members home-school their children. Why should they be deciding what our children and grandchildren will be learning? Personally, I would rather children learn about Thomas Jefferson, the Civil Rights Act, and how Cesar Chavez fought for migrant workers than learn about Phyllis Schafly, the NRA, and the rewriting of McCarthyism.
And if they try to insert more creationism and religious ideology into the curriculum, can we file suit against them for erasing the line between the separation of church and state? We learned the Bible stories at church on SUNDAY, and about evolution in school during the week. We all managed to deal with the dichotomy; why can’t they?
Okay, rant over now. But I am serious about reading the document when it is posted and commenting. If they get away with this, it will be another 10 years before we get another chance to straighten it out again.
5We just need some prominent people (Hello, Mr. President, I’m talking about YOU) to mention the fact that Texas high school graduates will be considered ill-educated and not worthy of admission to any school of high learning outside the state. Oh and not employable, either. That oughta do it.
6McLeroy said he wanted students to learn that the French Revolution was built on different ideals than the American Revolution.
“In the Americas,” he said, “it had a different basis. I’m not the scholar that can just pop those things out, I just have my general impressions.”
I wonder if this twit knows the French Revolution was after ours? And guess who was ambassador to France in the run up to it. Hint his initials are TJ and it ain’t Tommy James and the Shondells. Ben Franklin was hanging in Paris too.
7The Texas School Board needs a megadose of “enlightenment” and to forget about their personal “impressions.” They’re the type of people who drive others out of churches.
8Make the stupid stop, it hurts.
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