Discussion: Texas Moves To Override New AP History Course

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how ya gonna keep’em down on the farm if you let 'em learn to think for themselves?

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Some have even likened it to “mind control” engineered by the federal government.

Yes, because if a private enterprise doesn’t do what you like, it must be the fault of the federal government. Private enterprise is perfect and pure and so could never do anything not to your liking, right, Teatards?

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Since when does the state that wants to secede (again) get to determine what is “Un-American?”

Maybe THIS explains it…

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Being a Texan…Texas is going to pay the price of a poorly educated workforce. Hispanics are over 50% of the students in the public schools but
only 20% of the voters are Hispanic…Look out 20222

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How very ISIS of you, Texas.

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Does Texas not understand that AP courses are COLLEGE-LEVEL; meaning that the curriculum is the same used in a COLLEGE?
This is why I am GLAD that I almost never have Texans in my classroom. When it comes to “education”, as goes Texass, so goes America. This is the penultimate argument for establishing uniform NATIONAL standards for courses and curricula.
Texans are completely unfit for self-governance.

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For the size and the amount of money Texas has… it makes a lousy presence
in the great schools of the United States…California kicks Texas’ass at the university and graduate levels…

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Texas is just lucky it had lots of plankton buried in its sea beds millions of years ago…

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We should live so long!

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It’s very important for Texas to restrict the learning level of its high school students. How else are they going to supply all those underpaid workers for the jobs Perry has “created” ?

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This is excellent news because it means fewer young Texans will be able to skip introductory history classes in college before taking the college level classes. Given what they’re being taught about history in high school, that can only be a net public good. And all their peers who did manage to pass an AP exam won’t have to listen to them attack the professor in an advanced class as biased for not spewing the Confederate Party line on slavery, secession, civil rights, and the Indian wars.

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Texas creates their own Memory Hole, and bolsters the stock of fast food employee candidates upon graduation.

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Excellent point.

I find it troubling in both the lack of reporting and in the fact itself, that none of the quoted Texas officials has any sort of background in History. Whatsoever. At all.

The most referenced Higher Ed degree on the Texas board appears to be Business Management. And frankly an MA in Business Management says more to me about your lack of fitness for education leadership than the reverse.

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I don’t know if the just-under-1/3 who got college credit did so because of their localities or because of their scores, but either way it demonstrates what a waste of time it is to teach history in Texas.

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That’s not the point. It the FACT that because they are the largest state that buys textbooks at the state-level, they have tremendous influence over what is in those books. That influence has become deeply politicized because of the crusade of two fairly narrow-minded assholes named Mel & Norma Gabler. Their influence needs to be purged from schools.

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Great now they won’t have to learn any of that rubbish about how the Civil War had to do with slavery and other myths. With the time saved by teaching an abridged history field trips to the Creationism Museum can be arranged!

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Frankly from what the article here states the San Antonio Republican comes off remarkably sane. But I know the truth behind Texas edu issues (not sane), so is he lying when he says the following? Because it seems like I too would want to support what he mentions.

Mercer said the new exam and course framework ignore such American civil right icons as Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Cesar Chavez, while sanitizing lessons on World War II.
“In World War II there’s no Holocaust, no liberation of concentration camps,” he said. “It’s mentioned in Texas, but not in the (national) framework.”

I’m confused by this. They’re upset that the new test apparently doesn’t mention MLK or the holocaust, and they’re upset about this because they think it’s a liberal conspiracy? It’s usually conservatives who either deny the holocaust or who call MLK a communist. I would think, given those tendencies, they’d be happy with the new test. (Are they really upset that Cesar Chavez got cut?) Since I haven’t really been following this one very closely, would someone please explain this to me?

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