And Texas becomes even scarier...
Jul. 7th, 2012 09:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserHoly crap, Texas. Texas Republican Party Calls For Abstinence Only Sex Ed, Corporal Punishment In Schools, and an end to teaching "higher order thinking skills".
The abstinence only thing is horrible but not surprising.
That they want teachers to be able to hit kids is boggling.
But schools want to stop kids from thinking? Quote:
...they oppose the teaching of "higher order thinking skills" -- a curriculum which strives to encourage critical thinking -- arguing that it might challenge "student's fixed beliefs" and undermine "parental authority."
Yeah. The only way they'll keep their base is to prevent kids from being able to critically think about things and to make decisions for themselves.
This is really, really sad.
The abstinence only thing is horrible but not surprising.
That they want teachers to be able to hit kids is boggling.
But schools want to stop kids from thinking? Quote:
...they oppose the teaching of "higher order thinking skills" -- a curriculum which strives to encourage critical thinking -- arguing that it might challenge "student's fixed beliefs" and undermine "parental authority."
Yeah. The only way they'll keep their base is to prevent kids from being able to critically think about things and to make decisions for themselves.
This is really, really sad.
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Date: 2012-07-08 05:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-09 03:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-09 04:24 pm (UTC)I think there might be something wrong with just most of the south of the US. Texas is like religion crazy, Arizona is immigrant crazy, Florida is just plain crazy, California is...well it's California. Although I never hear anything about New Mexico, Mississippi only really comes up when things flood, and Louisiana just gets screwed over a bunch it seems. In fact, as an outsider it seems like Alabama is the only one that hasn't lived up to it's reputation for me yet. Maybe it just does a better job at containing it's madness from international media.
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Date: 2012-07-09 04:29 pm (UTC)Same. I know there are some fine people who live there, but...
I think there might be something wrong with just most of the south of the US.
Yeah. Again, I hate to generalize, but... So hard not to.
In fact, as an outsider it seems like Alabama is the only one that hasn't lived up to it's reputation for me yet. Maybe it just does a better job at containing it's madness from international media.
News reporters go into Alabama, but none come out...
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Date: 2012-07-09 05:04 pm (UTC)They are coming... (http://youtu.be/Jn5c1FuLDd4)
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Date: 2012-07-09 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-11 08:23 pm (UTC)that's just great. Thanks Thistle. Now I equate thinking with masturbation. Yea...hot ladies thinking...so sexy.
Oh, wait, it totally is sexy. Ignore what Texas tells you - keep thinking. Yea. Think faster. Ohhh yea.
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Date: 2012-07-11 08:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-08 09:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-09 03:26 pm (UTC)So doomed. D:
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Date: 2012-07-11 08:25 pm (UTC)I'm a scientist. My wife decided a while ago that it isn't safe for me to interact with the local public. She screens people she meets before I'm allowed to interact with them at all.
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Date: 2012-07-11 08:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-11 09:08 pm (UTC)For what it's worth, my wife may be offered a job working for a Chocolate company in California in the next year or so. I told her we should seriously consider it - I'm a computer scientist with a background in AI. I hear I can make pretty good in Cali. The living expenses out there are kind of scary compared to where I am now (currently building a 2200 sq ft house walking distance from the delicious-food part of downtown for under 250k)
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Date: 2012-07-11 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-08 11:22 am (UTC)I mean, you believe that your way is the best way, that any other way will send you to Hell, but you don't believe that the children that you have for (at minimum) 16 out of 24 hours on a weekday and all weekend long will come to believe as you do, because you ... what, can't build a strong case against evolution? Because you believe that this teacher, who, along with math and phys ed and lunch and art and music is ALSO going to completely bend your child's mind in a way that your raising of your children all the rest of the time can't counteract?
Man, if they are that unsure of the facts and truth and reality behind their case as all that, it gives me hope that even THEY know that they are full of shit.
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Date: 2012-07-09 03:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-08 04:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-09 03:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-08 06:45 pm (UTC)WTF, Texas. I think it cuts all the deeper cuz we have a kid now. That... goes against pretty much everything we want to teach her. I am so glad we don't, and don't plan on, living in Texas.
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Date: 2012-07-09 03:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-09 12:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-09 03:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-09 06:45 am (UTC)If kids undermining parental authority is really such a problem, why not just outlaw puberty altogether? I am quite sure kids don't need critical thinking skills to undermine authority figures. They just need to be kids.
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Date: 2012-07-09 03:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-10 03:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-10 02:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-09 03:29 pm (UTC)I grew up with a disturbing amount of peers believing you can't get pregnant the first time, or if you exercise after and do jumping jacks. They will learn about sex, yes. They may well never be taught about SAFE sex. It needs to be taught.
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Date: 2012-07-09 03:35 pm (UTC)gets taught with zero mention of things like how sperm GETS there
... Magical sperm! Just sort of arrives.
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Date: 2012-07-10 04:12 am (UTC)...Oh, right. Yeah, Texas is screwed.
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Date: 2012-07-11 08:21 pm (UTC)You must live with a very different internet than mine. I had a friend in college who, quite literally, learned everything he knew about sex from the internet. His first sexual experience landed both him and his lady in the hospital with various injuries.