Miss. Gov. calls for $3M to protect children from 'far-left socialist teachings'

[SheltieLover]

https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2020/11/16/miss-gov-calls-m-protect-children-far-left-socialist-teachings/

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves is calling for a shift in the way American history is taught in Mississippi.

Featured in Reeves' 2022 fiscal year budget proposal is the “Patriotic Education Fund."

“Across the country, young children have suffered from indoctrination in far-left socialist teachings that emphasize America’s shortcomings over the exceptional achievements of this country,” the proposed fund states.

The governor claims “revisionist history” is working to tear down America and is “poisoning a generation.”

More at link.

[Cha]

1. Instead the Mississippi is "poisoning

the well & trying to rewrite history".

Sad for Mississippi

[SheltieLover]

3. Very true!

And, in same proposal, he is trying to abolish state income tax. How convenient for well-to-do.

TN has no income tax. Instead, everything - food & medicine included - are taxed at very high rate.

Typical repuke play: have those with the least resources pulling the wagon for the wealthy.

[Cha]

13. Despicable.. & the majority are like

the Chickens voting for Colonel Sanders.

[GoneOffShore]

15. Because -- Squirrel!!!!

[disalitervisum]

2. Unlikely claim since our children are guided by textbooks

approved by the Texas Board of Education, who pick textbooks that teach Moses is an "honorary founding father" of the United States.

[SheltieLover]

5. No doubt!

It is absolutely amazing what they "teach" in these southern schools.

NATO = North American Treaty (or Trade, depending on idiot "teaching&quot Organization, for example.

Surreal.

[Celerity]

11. white Moses!

[IcyPeas]

4. Mississippi ranks number 46 in education rankings

You do you Mississippi. Maybe you can beat Alabama for last place next year.


https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education

[SheltieLover]

6. No kidding!

MS is always striving to be dead last in every category.

Why do people there keep electing repukes?

[vercetti2021]

16. Might have something to do with being 46th in education

Lower education, higher chance of being a dumbass conservative later in life.

Now I had a GED myself because i dropped out of school and i have no college education. But I have a high intellect

[SunSeeker]

7. I'm guessing one of the "teachings" he objects to is that slavery existed.

And preserving slavery was why the South fought the Civil War.

[SheltieLover]

8. Anything to defend plantation mentality!

Sickening pos!

[regnaD kciN]

9. We're "exceptional," all right...

Name one other constitutional democracy that has the provision to legally hand the presidency to the candidate who came in second in the election. That’s quite an “exception”...

[LuvNewcastle]

10. Some of us graduated from Mississippi public schools with

a functioning bullshit detector and it kills him. Why can't we all finish with the same level of ignorance and be happy with our jobs at Wal-Mart?

[Solly Mack]

12. What bullshit. A quick search will show the state of Mississippi used history textbooks

that lied about the Civil War - pro "lost cause" slant. They weren't alone - across the South this was true - the "history" textbooks were even called the "Lost Cause" lessons.

Multiple generations were fed this crap.

Even when the state was called on their bullshit history lessons, they still managed to get around the new standards and continued to teach lost cause bullshit.

Even today, studies have shown Mississippi is still downplaying civil rights and whitewashing the politics of well known racists in the state. Even with the new standards, schools are using outdated textbooks.

No one has to take my word for it - do your own research.

Some teachers are not using the textbooks available because the books don't meet the new standards (teaching civil rights, etc.) Even with some of the "updated" textbooks, civil rights and the names involved get little more than a paragraph, if that.

But most simply continue to teach from textbooks that contain the whole "lost cause" lie. Books published before 1995.

Poorer districts have it even worse.

This problem is not limited to Mississippi.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. Is this the reincarnation of the United Daughters of the Confederacy?

[vercetti2021]

17. Just watch Mississippi Burning

It's all the history you need for Mississippi history. Lowest like Alabama, Kentucky and all. Keep the population dumbed down and they'll buy into any horseshit propaganda that the cons will toss at em.