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Texas rewriting books
Hooray! Looks like for the next 10 years American kids won't learn about who the hell Thomas Jefferson is, and instead learn about John Calvin (a French pastor and theologian from 1500's). And that's just one of many brilliant changes Texas muscled into public school curriculum...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1253

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...2.4bcac76.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_498003.html
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Surely they'll still learn about the other parts of how Jefferson is important, or at least that was how yahoo's article came across to me.

In Tennessee, we actually have to spend almost a week before the state final going over random facts that are related to our state. The AP US history teacher hates it, but she has to do it or else we would fail. It's a pretty big waste of time and even more trivial.

I'm wondering though, how come the changes just in the state of Texas would also spread to the whole country's curriculum?
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Originally Posted by DarkJak View Post

I'm wondering though, how come the changes just in the state of Texas would also spread to the whole country's curriculum?

Texas is a market leader in school-textbook industry.
A lot of states will be using those books.
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Originally Posted by PigAndCow View Post
America has too much rights, its counter productive

all individuals who submit to an external authority are counterproductive to nature, which houses and feeds us all.


What's more important? utopian coexistence with nature, or intergalactic colonist domination?


Should we repeat the historical mistakes of our ancestors on a larger scale or LEARN SOMETHING FOR ONCE IN OUR GOD DAMNED HISTORY OF THIS WRETCHED PLANET?!?
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What's more important? utopian coexistence with nature, or intergalactic colonist domination?

The second one.
But, what does that have to do with OP?
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Originally Posted by Article
"They are rewriting history, not only of Texas but of the United States and the world."

Ah, silly Americans thinking the rest of the world will have any effect from this.

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Hence, “imperialism” as a characterization of America’s modern rise to world power is giving way to “expansionism,” and “capitalism” is being dropped in economic material, in favor of the more positive expression “free market.” (The new recommendations stress the need for favorable depictions of America’s economic superiority across the board.)

That's fucking retarded. That's like saying the Soviets weren't communists but just nice people that liked to share.

The doctrine parts bother me more than the stuff on Calvin tbh, it's fucking bending history towards the conservatives.
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Originally Posted by PigAndCow View Post
America has too much rights, its counter productive

I agree with this. We're giving power to people who constantly misuse it, and its ruining america.
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Ah, silly Americans thinking the rest of the world will have any effect from this.

The world IS affected by America. Just look at the recession. We had a recession, and the rest of the world felt it. Just because we've been having some tough times doesn't mean we're not a world power any more.


Now, i doubt this particular event will go farther than Texas, but you still need top realize that America IS in the top 5.
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Originally Posted by jaredvcxz View Post
I agree with this. We're giving power to people who constantly misuse it, and its ruining america.

The world IS affected by America. Just look at the recession. We had a recession, and the rest of the world felt it. Just because we've been having some tough times doesn't mean we're not a world power any more.


Now, i doubt this particular event will go farther than Texas, but you still need top realize that America IS in the top 5.

I think he meant that our textbooks wont affect the rest of the globe. Which is true, unless you count that this would make Americans only that much more likely to be idiotic, out of touch douche bags who will continue to make the rest of the world lol and rage at how dumb many of us are when we vacation in their cities.
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As much as I love Texas our education system is pretty bad.
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The doctrine parts bother me more than the stuff on Calvin tbh, it's fucking bending history towards the conservatives.

Democrats do the exact same thing. Both parties are corrupt but we vote on whose the least corrupt.
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