Texas, Stay Classy

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I found this interesting:



I didn't look for independent verification, but interesting if true.
 
You're kidding right? If you don't think U.S. history doesn't really change from fact, you know very little about it.
 
I didn't bring it up, you did. What I posted had nothing to do with McCarthyism and civil rights, it was a comment regarding the rationale and justification behind McCarthyism. Instead of whitewashing the whole thing as a civil rights fiasco, TX evidently is interested in examining history more closely. Why is this a bad thing?
 
fossilized ivory towers run by middlebrows whose careers consist mainly of bending research to suit a career plan?
 
most of the changes are either insignificant or change the *emphasis* on what is taught. very few of them are factually incorrect.

but that's beside the point.

I'm excited about this because of all the liberal bedwetters having to change their depends
 
One more reason for why class curriculum shouldn't be determined by political means. (either way)

It's alright, they'll just end up failing some tests in college until they learn the part of history they need.
 
That is kind of the point isn't it? Or would you want your archeologists trying to do medical research?


(Are you trolling or are you really this paranoid/ignorant?)
 
That's impossible to impliment. Obviously there is a max amount of info you are able to squeeze into a year's studies, so there are going to be things you don't do, some things you just skim over, etc.. I might consider ____ person/event very important and you wouldn't.
 
No, tax payers dont get to write history. It should be taught as best determined by the true academic community. US primary education is shit from the top down starting with these sorts of clowns and the taxpayes were educated by these sorts of clowns (this crap is not isolated to texas, they're just the biggest purchaser of texbooks).
 
I know it's the cool thing to do to poke fun of Texas education but we should be looking at the bigger picture and how shifty our public education system is as a whole. Also Texas> *
 
Sure it does



Aside from the fact that I never said it was solely based on the topic and you wanted to toss out a strawman. I said that they'll do worse because they won't have the background from high school.
Learning is sequential. If you're taking a U.S. history test in college why wouldn't it be based on what you learned in high school...or should have learned? That's how learning works in the U.S. we teach based on what you previously learned so that we can add to the base of knowledge.


If you're taking Calc II in college...it depends on your previous knowledge of calc I, pre-calc, trig on back...
 
You're false perception of academia is quite comical. You either never attended a decent University or were one of those closed minded individuals who never belonged there in the first place.

Research is not bent and doing so is frowned upon in all fields. You cant bend research in todays world easily because there is usually at least one other well respected member of your field researching or reviewing your work and we're all connected via the internet and university information sharing systems.

Please cite examples of the claims your making.

Since you cant, please contribute something intelligent and useful or dont contribute. People like you thinking they should have a say in what gets taught is why the American primary education system is crap.
 
intro college coursework generally repeats everything that was taught in highschool. any setback will be minimal

more importantly, there is nothing incorrect about the vast majority of the changes. try being a grown up. for example, there is no shortage of historians that would take the position that McCarthyism was justified and not a paranoid witch hunt. many, if not most, Soviet historians and probably most of the Soviet FSO would take this position. In fact much of McCarthy's criticism had roots in Soviet propaganda. TX's position is many times more realistic and scholarly than the general teaching in public schools that ideologically brushes off McCarthysm as an attack on civil rights without even paying lip service to historical context.

liberal crybabies are upset because their pseudo-intellectual monopoly is being taken away, not because of inaccuracies in the revised curriculum
 
Right, and that's why we don't let politicians determine what is/isn't important.

politicians from either party
 
No one should get to "write" history as you put it. There is no question academics have severe biases, as well as a distinct disassociation from reality. They often do live in the proverbial ivory tower, and prefer to teach history as they feel it should have been rather than what actually happened. There is no question their work should be overseen, and there is no one more suited than the people actually paying for the service.

So yes, they should be approvong it.
 
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