You may want to go over his posts again, because you sound stupid. He clearly said that all things are important, but its impossible to teach all things because things like time is a limited resource so you have to pick and choose.
He said that if you were to take out something like the KKK and put in something more about civil rights ect, then that would be in his mind okay. He clearly is establishing balance based on of constrained limits of time, money, energy ect.
So what is the point you are arguing? Are you disagreeing that things are limited and all subjects of history should be covered?
Because maybe Civil Rights, Jim Crow, and KKK is covered in a different book. Maybe that's in the book for another grade level, or has its own class outright. All I'm saying is you cannot realistically critique a book you haven't even seen and aren't familiar with the content from based upon solely a few paragraphs from the Washington Post. If you can't grasp that for some reason and just want an excuse to complain about Texas then just say so.
There was a time when one had to go to the library, use the card catalog, subject, author, title, and perform research sometimes for hours, and if a text book was biased it could be a problem because you wouldn't know what to look for,
but in 2015,
With almost every kid having access to the INTERNET, either through their smartphone or some computer somewhere, with sites such as Google, Wikepedia, Snopes, Politifact, etc.,
some text book is going to have the power to whitewash history?
For the unbelievers
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=jim+crow
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=kkk
Nah, it's a stain on the south, which the GOP has taken to defend, since that's your base of power.
There was a time when one had to go to the library, use the card catalog, subject, author, title, and perform research sometimes for hours, and if a text book was biased it could be a problem because you wouldn't know what to look for,
but in 2015,
With almost every kid having access to the INTERNET, either through their smartphone or some computer somewhere, with sites such as Google, Wikepedia, Snopes, Politifact, etc.,
some text book is going to have the power to whitewash history?
For the unbelievers
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=jim+crow
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=kkk
If Jim Crow Laws, Civil Rights and Slavery are removed from history books what reason does the student have to look them up? How do they know what they don't know?
The only ones that are stupid are you. The board declined to be interviewed. If it was a simple matter of reallocating those topics to another grade or book, that would have been an easy thing to counter with (hell, the journalists could have just looked it up themselves).
Use some fucking logic.
All textbooks require decisions about what to include or emphasize and what to exclude or only mention in passing. For example, if they had reduced the amount of material devoted to the KKK to include more about the Civil Rights Era of the 1950s and 60s that might be reasonable. But don't let lack of clear understanding about the complete contents of the textbook stop you from commenting about how terrible it is or how it's trying to "whitewash" history. We can decide that based on sheer heuristics based on the fact that Texas is involved and a couple paragraphs from an article whose writer likely has an axe to grind. And this story may be completely true in all regards, but I'm not going to accept it uncritically without any thought whatsoever.
Every part of our history is important; the KKK and Jim Crow are and so is the Founding Fathers, the Civil Rights Era, labor movement history, Cold war, Native Peoples history, et cetera ad infinitum. Again, given the limits of teaching days in the school year what would you prioritize? Talking about tradeoffs isn't "making excuses" and that's exactly what I talked about in my post if you had actually read it and weren't acting in bad faith.
WTF, all of those are important. The KKK and Jim Crow laws aren't obscure minutiae in our history. We were able to cover all those topics in our school easily and even have room for black history. Stop making excuses.
Every part of our history is important; the KKK and Jim Crow are and so is the Founding Fathers, the Civil Rights Era, labor movement history, Cold war, Native Peoples history, et cetera ad infinitum.
WTF, all of those are important. The KKK and Jim Crow laws aren't obscure minutiae in our history. We were able to cover all those topics in our school easily and even have room for black history. Stop making excuses.
The textbooks should show how Republicans fought to end slavery and how fiercely Democrats fought against civil rights for blacks. People need to know that it was Democrats who gave us the KKK and Jim Crow laws and that their beloved FDR's New Deal screwed blacks and how he didn't lift a finger to stop the lynchings. And they need to know how LBJ won over blacks to vote for Democrats the next 200 years. People need to know these things.
Southern Democrats were the worst thing that ever happened to the Republican Party.
That is the single biggest problem with the intarwebs. Because of the apparently endless, all encompassing, nature of the internet, few realize the majority of human knowledge is not referenced, mentioned or, discussed online. Library classes taught me how to think not, just how to access material.
Then please tell me why Republicans want to edit out most everything horrible about Democrats in their textbooks.Except it's not Dems in Texas editing the books...
Then please tell me why Republicans want to edit out most everything horrible about Democrats in their textbooks.
Because NOW those people/Dems in the past are now part of the Republican party.
Brilliant logic!Because NOW those people/Dems in the past are now part of the Republican party.
Brilliant logic!
People in the past are part of the Republican party now? Do you actually read what you type?
People in the past are part of the Republican party now? Do you actually read what you type?
The textbooks should show how Republicans fought to end slavery and how fiercely Democrats fought against civil rights for blacks. People need to know that it was Democrats who gave us the KKK and Jim Crow laws and that their beloved FDR's New Deal screwed blacks and how he didn't lift a finger to stop the lynchings. And they need to know how LBJ won over blacks to vote for Democrats the next 200 years. People need to know these things.
Southern Democrats were the worst thing that ever happened to the Republican Party.
You're a hoot! Too funny! But seriously...you should get tested.Please disprove it. When the South was fighting integration was it mainly Dems or Repubs fighting it? The republicans welcomed the racist element of the democrats leaving the party with open arms.
Have you read any history at all?
Actually, he is right. Southerners, which is a geographic group of people, used to vote democrat and now vote republican. So he is correct when he says those who were democrat are now republican. If you were to break down the party ideas, then those in the past would better be labeled as republicans today.
The south flipped because of racism and racism alone.
You're a hoot! Too funny! But seriously...you should get tested.
Bigots in training? Projection much?Isn't that the point? We need to put lots of gold stars on the work of the children of the South and keep them from knowing the awful truth of their past so they don't grow up self hatingly emotionally stunted, only to find out that what they are being taught to become is actually disgustingly hideous Democrats with a mere name change. Think of the children. Think of their tender egos. We don't want them growing up with a chip on their shoulders all nasty and defensive. Even bigots in training need love.
Read what was typed. The words that were actually used. How can people of the past makeup anything today?
Let me put it another way. THESE AREN'T THE SAME PEOPLE.
No people from the past don't live in the here and now, but there decendents do.
And of course decedents don't change from their predecessors (republicans) except when they do (democrats).
Like Doc said, brilliant logic.
This seems to be really hard for you. Please quote where I said that Democrats are editing Texas textbooks.I'll be right in line with you when you get tested for your belief that it's democrats editing the Texas textbooks.