Thursday, July 19, 2007

rotten kids -- why can't they just watch TV or play a video game or some damn thing instead of wasting our money on reading?

Need I add: shocking that this is happening in Texas.

Need I add: our children are our most precious resource.
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Corms said...

It seems that Texas has officially "surpassed" Mississippi.

July 19, 2007 at 11:59 AM
Sarge said...

what's funny, is that the textbook industry depends on Texas - as Texas is one of the biggest buyers in the world and has a strict and conservative board that decides on what books to purchase. It's one of many reasons most history books tend to dumb down and vanilla-ize the history of the United States. They barely talk badly about James Buchanan much less Roger Taney or some of the other winners. And often things like the Chinese Exclusion Act or other things of that ilk are put forth as sadly unavoidable and unfortunate events rather than the products of massive racism and a legacy of violence toward the outsider that have plagued U.S. history.

Well, the textbook industry has just gotten a big fuck you from one of their biggest buyers because like the textbook industry, they don't believe in education, they believe in indoctrination - and who cares if the indoctrinator comes once every six years or once every ten years. It's still going to say the same things:

America has struggled :(
America has triumphed :)
Sometimes things have happened which don't make sense unless we look critically... :(
So let's just gloss over and keep going! :)

Reflecting recent scholarship in areas of study, in the textbook industry, rates, in the hierarchy of importance, right above "did we pay the indexer?" And right below "What shade of white should we make the page color?"

July 20, 2007 at 1:01 AM

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