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 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)