On 5/22/2010 1:06 PM, Stephen wrote:


> with so many fruit loops and fundamentalists, I think that you should
> fight every line of that cr*p.
>
>> Then there's the Texas schoolbook thing, because textbook companies are
>> slobs that just copy the Texas curriculum for the whole country and so
>> shoehorn all public education into what one group of half a dozen people
>> wants to further their own agenda.
>>
>
> Whose fault is that?
>
>
>
Hard to say actually. #1 buyer of text books = California. #2 = Texas. 
Its a bit like whining that the only alternative to the Windows machine 
in the local computer shop is a Mac. Most schools do not have the time, 
or the money, to go out and buy from other publishers. Those publishers 
may not be able to support the volume, and unfortunately, most of the 
country is bamboozled into believing in the three bullshits talking 
points always being pushed - Taxes should be lower, the government can't 
do anything right, and states have rights, parents know better then 
anyone else what their kids need to believe and learn to be good citizens.

Of course, #1 only counts, as long as its social services, or other 
people's pet projects, not *yours*. #2 is almost a direct consequence of 
#1, and the way people think about actually doing it. And, #3 gives us 
idiot things like "every child left behind", instead of a nation wide 
consensus on what the hell actually happened in history, what science 
actually says, what people actually need to function in society, and 
real control over any of the wackos that decide to side step any such 
standards, including, sometimes, their own state curriculums, to teach 
complete gibberish, never mind requiring that school boards have.. I 
don't know.. people who fracking know something about history, science, 
or just plain "education", on them, instead of which ever random, small 
scale, would be politician, gets themselves elected to it.

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