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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump trashes Howard Zinn, calls for white-washed school curriculum
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oasis
(49,334 posts)pecosbob
(7,533 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,664 posts)paleotn
(17,884 posts)Donnie read a Weekly Reader once back in school.
oasis
(49,334 posts)is around the same level as his disgusting Deplorables.
dameatball
(7,395 posts)he ever got.
no_hypocrisy
(46,033 posts)Does that mean I'll get fired from teaching when it's Thanksgiving and I do my traditional presentation of the "Other Thanksgiving" wherein I discuss the history of Native Americans and their betrayal by the Pilgrims and the next generation?
pecosbob
(7,533 posts)so it's probably not far off if they get their way.
pecosbob
(7,533 posts)BDS is modeled after the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.[10] Its proponents compare the Palestinians' plight to that of apartheid-era black South Africans.[11][12] Protests and conferences in support of the movement have been held in several countries. Its mascot, which features on its logotype, is Handala, a symbol of Palestinian identity and defiance.
The Israeli government funds lobbying groups like the Israel Allies Foundation, which has been successful in passing laws banning state agencies from contracting with BDS supporters in 25 American states. The laws all draw on a draft originally written by an Israeli legal scholar.[13] Critics say BDS is antisemitic, questions the legitimacy of Israel,[14] and resembles the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses.[15][16][17]
Whether one supports such efforts is immaterial...the fact that your job depends on this in twenty-five states is wrong and anti-American.
no_hypocrisy
(46,033 posts)I had to sign a statement in front of Notary that I would not subvert the Constitution or overthrow the U.S. Government.
Happy Days are here again!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)paleotn
(17,884 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,062 posts)Evangelical culture war wet dreams to the wind, sowing seeds, because he knows he is going to lose.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)there was a sincere effort to soften the history of his administration, 911, the Iraq War and other issues with publishers. I seem to recall that Texas has a majority of school text publishing houses, so the Republicans tried to influence what went into the texts. They were also trying to influence science texts to downplay climate change.
Am I right or on my way to dementia?
pecosbob
(7,533 posts)Something about state governments having the right to editorial power because of their purchasing power. But I forget in which Republican reign of terror it occurred.
Lonestarblue
(9,958 posts)To understand the Texas influence, you need to know some background. The US has a K-12 education system of open territory states and state adoption states (22 states mostly in the South and Southwest). In open adoption states, schools choose their curriculum materials. In state adoption states, like Texas, schools choose from a state-approved list of textbooks.
To get approved in a state, publishers must exactly follow the curriculum the state has established. The state board of education sets standards and approves text materials. Because of the cost of developing nationwide curriculum materials, Texas thus has an outsized influence on national textbooks. Part of this influence formerly related to money, as Texas used to purchase 110% of all textbooks anticipated to be needed for the full five years of an adoption period. In Texas, thats a huge chunk of money. They no longer do this, and the rules for approval of books have also changed somewhat for the better, but Texas still wields enormous influence simply because of its market size. So does California, which does state approvals for K-8 only.
In the 1980s through the early 2000s, the Texas Board of Education was filled with rabid anti-science, anti-history nuts who believed more in a religious curriculum than in educating kids with the truth. We have less rabid people elected to the Board today because it was getting so much public ridicule for being flat-out crazy. The legacy of the past still lingers in textbooks, however, because publishers revise only a small portion of their content with each new edition because of cost. They mostly update for changes and to meet any new curriculum standards.
The upshot is that Republicans in the state-adoption states have controlled the writing of curriculum stands for each subject. Their conservative, religious, white views are what is represented in todays textbooks.
PatrickforO
(14,559 posts)as the people in the early part of the century.
I get so TIRED of propaganda being foisted off on my grandchildren as 'truth.' - we have to fight it with the real truth wherever it crops up.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)For many years, my husband reviewed all the science textbooks before the school put out boatloads of money. Now, my daughter does a lot of that screening, but in other areas of the curriculum. It can be an onerous task, but has become more so in recent years.
It is sad that so much has to be monitored. Teaching is tough enough with adding that burden.
Lonestarblue
(9,958 posts)Publishing companies rely on teachers like your husband and daughter to make the content factually correct and help improve it for student understanding. Thats especially tough in science, but their work is invaluable in creating text materials. Many publishers used to hire teachers to write K-12 curriculum materials, but fewer do so now because of time constraints mostly. Some still do, and I thing those text materials benefit from the hands-on experience that teachers have. They are truly unsung heroes, especially these days.
llmart
(15,533 posts)And Donnie two scoops wouldn't know truth if it bit him in his large, orange ass.
paleotn
(17,884 posts)And the myth of American exceptionalism is mortally wounded by truth, facts and evidence. Lets hope it skulks off and dies somewhere before it causes any more damage.
zanana1
(6,103 posts)PatrickforO
(14,559 posts)as opposed to less, and whitewashing the curriculum is out of the question.
Yet that's what these hard-right evangelicals and the kluxers want.
Well..........yet another fine reason to win this election.
barbtries
(28,770 posts)i really wish this would be addressed more thoroughly by media. we're approaching Rwanda level here. Nazi level. it's so fucking dangerous.
What Zinn did for me is teach me the power of the people. that's not propaganda, that's facts.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Hes just regurgitating what his handlers are telling him.
Of course the power establishment doesnt want Zinn in the curriculum. Hes a threat.
Proud to say I gave that book to my son for his birthday when he was a teen.
Azathoth
(4,607 posts)This is pure white nationalist agitprop written for him by Stephen Miller and Tucker Carlson's staff. This is a full-on Pepe the Frog Kekistan campaign.
moondust
(19,961 posts)Last edited Sun Sep 20, 2020, 01:51 PM - Edit history (1)
You know, like China uses for Uighurs and others the Communist Party wants to indoctrinate/control/eliminate?
Trump told China's president that building concentration camps for millions of Uighur Muslims was 'exactly the right thing to do,' former adviser (Bolton) says
My first guess was that his new education Executive Order was a way to funnel more taxpayer dollars into Betsy's private "alternative facts" "schools." Which it probably is. But it may be even worse than that.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)One of his handlers whispered this into his ear and he is just repeating it. The man is so ignorant and poorly educated, you can be sure he does not know the slightest thing about Mr. Zinn. What a joke!