Austin American-Statesman: Vote some sense into state board

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Vote some sense into state board
Editorial Board

Monday, March 15, 2010


While the State Board of Education was engaging in its usual antics of purifying the Texas curriculum by slashing and burning it, the rest of us should have been seeking the definition of "enough."

The breast-beating that went on during last week's curriculum hearings was a demonstration of demagoguery, arrogant ignorance and political muscle flexing by the radical majority determined to push its agenda regardless of the economic consequences to the state.

There is no bigger drag on a state's economy than a poorly educated work force. The 15-member board of education, dominated by a radical majority, focuses not on an effective educational curriculum but a politically correct one.

Enough is enough.

Left unchecked, the radicals won't need an atomic weapon to bomb Texas back to the Stone Age. They'll vote us back to it. These are people with curious notions — that people co-existed with dinosaurs, for example. Last week, they voted on an irrational fear that Texas schoolchildren might somehow be corrupted if exposed to the word "capitalism." (It has a negative connotation, they majority sniffed.) Thomas Jefferson? Away with him and his ideas. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.statesman.com/opinion/vote-some-sense-into-state-board-363580.html

[UTUSN]

1. K&R #1. The DENTIST a-hole is voted out, yet will make decisions

before he actually GETS out.

I'm going to send him an e-mail saying, "YOUR LACK OF JUDGMENT EXTENDS TO YOUR PROFESSION: I wouldn't trust you as a FUCKING DENTIST, so WHY WOULD I have you tend my FUCKING TEETH?! -- much less the brainwashing of KIDS?!"

The lucky part is that NOBODY "studies" textbooks.

[Catshrink]

2. Politicians writing curriculum

This needs to stop.