Ft. Worth Star-Telegram: Someone make the State Board of Education stop!

[marmar]

Someone make the State Board of Education stop!
Posted Thursday, Mar. 11, 2010


It says something about public frustration with the State Board of Education that Republican voters this month replaced one of its most extreme members, former chairman Don McLeroy, with Thomas Ratliff, whose father, Bill Ratliff, was a voice of reason when he served in the Texas Senate.

The way the board has turned setting education standards for Texas schools into a battleground for social issues and ideological agendas isn't just distressing. It's a disservice to taxpayers and the very children whose education needs to be improved, not politicized.

The social studies curriculum standards, on which the board is supposed to take a preliminary vote today, is the latest example.

The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills provides a framework from which districts develop the curricula their teachers follow. The TEKS also provides guidelines for textbook publishers.

The skirmishing started last year, when a pair of religious conservatives appointed by board members as "expert reviewers" dissed the historical significance of the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, the U.S. Supreme Court's first African-American, and labor leader Cesar Chavez. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/03/11/2033863/someone-make-the-state-board-of.html

[HillbillyBob]

1. I am getting so tired of Kkkonservative Kkkrestians

They give lie to the meaning of the word.
It is not the status quo they are trying to preserve they are trying to rule all others who are not fucked up as they are.
They are trying to "bring back" a golden time of patriarchal religious rule that never really existed, the closest being the Inquisition or Iniquity of feudalism.
The will "destroy the village to save it" .
They are not conservative they are selfish repressives.
I can think of a few other names to call, but its too early in my first cup of coffee to rant, that usually does not stop me usually. I just don't have the energy this morning.