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SO glad I don't live in Texas...
#11
RE: SO glad I don't live in Texas...
You guys just like to rub it in my face, eh?
"The reason things will never get better is because people keep electing these rich cocksuckers who don't give a shit about you."
-George Carlin
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#12
RE: SO glad I don't live in Texas...
(January 16, 2014 at 10:43 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: You guys just like to rub it in my face, eh?
At least you get BBQ.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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#13
RE: SO glad I don't live in Texas...
I saw many attack Texas also for reducing the high school exit requirement from Algebra 2 (was actually one of only 17 states to have this requirement, which is really just sad) to Geometry and then I saw California's requirement was algebra (a class you could normally complete in 8th grade).

If a state like Texas had education requirements that high (relative to the rest of the states that is) and still does stuff like this, I'd have to say America's education system as a whole isn't worth salvaging.
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.
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#14
RE: SO glad I don't live in Texas...
(January 16, 2014 at 10:50 pm)Polaris Wrote: If a state like Texas had education requirements that high (relative to the rest of the nations that is) and still does stuff like this, I'd have to say America's education system as a whole isn't worth salvaging.

Public education the way it is done now in America on the whole doesn't work. That is the entire point of the charter school movement. To reform the way public education is approached while having some autonomy to do things a little differently--the caveat being that each school is held accountable for improved student performance. This is why this is so sad. Taxpayer dollars sent to these schools where politicians and priests are hijacking the curriculum to satisfy a religious agenda and calling it education. Meanwhile the reading scores in these charter programs actually fell significantly and the mathematics showed no improvement.

The worst part is that in so many inner cities, charter programs do so much good. This sheds a tainted light on those programs.
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#15
RE: SO glad I don't live in Texas...
Well I've got a bit of a surprise for all ya'll that ain't in Texas...

Quote:“What happens in Texas doesn’t stay in Texas when it comes to textbooks”

No matter where you live, if your children go to public schools, the textbooks they use were very possibly written under Texas influence. If they graduated with a reflexive suspicion of the concept of separation of church and state and an unexpected interest in the contributions of the National Rifle Association to American history, you know who to blame.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives...tion=false
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.
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#16
RE: SO glad I don't live in Texas...
The teaching of Christian Creationism as science goes on in many Evangelical Christian schools in Australia. Those schools receive a large slice of their funding from state and federal governments.
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#17
RE: SO glad I don't live in Texas...
The grand scheme of things makes the ultimate goal of this situation to people to cheer when the public school system is finally abolished, in favor of private schools.
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#18
RE: SO glad I don't live in Texas...
Welp. I'm staying in New England forever and ever and ever...
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#19
RE: SO glad I don't live in Texas...
What's worse then a dumbass creatard? A dumb ass creatard with a gun
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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#20
RE: SO glad I don't live in Texas...
(January 17, 2014 at 12:08 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: What's worse then a dumbass creatard? A dumb ass creatard with a gun

Or an atheist with an army who sees that religion can be used as a tool.
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.
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