Texas Board of Education and the Re-writing of American History

[CivilWars]

haha.

Your clever quips do nothing to further your argument.

But how did this evolve into you and your wife choosing to be parents? What does that have to do with anything that we have been discussing? You make vague statements then change the subject and make even more vague statements with ended with smarty comments that don't win debates/arguments.....

I am not the one griping about what the government is teaching my kids. That is how it relates. If I want my kids to learn about God, then they do. If I want my kids to learn about evolution, then they do. If I want my kids to learn algebra at 5 years old then guess what? The overarching point to me is if you, or anyone else, want someone else to raise your kids for you then how can you, or anyone else, get pissed when they don't do it up to your standards? If you don't like it then teach them yourself, hire a private tutor, or send them to a privatized school that does what you want.

[Pint]

I remember a study from not too long ago that showed that home schooled children were head and shoulders above public schooled kids on basic literacy and arithmetic on average. The other thing it showed was that it is much harder for home schooled kids to reach the upper limits of academic abilities at home as opposed to taking AP high school courses. There is a give and take in this, motivated parents teach better on average, but motivated only gets you so far. If I had children and was in a position to do so financially I think I might do a 7 and 8th grade at home, or perhaps a joint home/public like some states offer to get my kids on good footing to get as much out of high school as possible.

[hawgballs]

I am not the one griping about what the government is teaching my kids.

This thread isn't about people griping about "what the government is teaching my kids", it is about a bunch of fundamentalists re-writing history so they can shove their religious beliefs into the public foray.

If I want my kids to learn about God, then they do.

At home, not at "public school" which, again, is what this thread is about.

If I want my kids to learn about evolution, then they do.

If your kids are in public school, then that is what they will learn. Why? Because that is what is testable to the scientific method. Whereas the other thing I think you will mention isn't.

If I want my kids to learn algebra at 5 years old then guess what? The overarching point to me is if you, or anyone else, want someone else to raise your kids for you then how can you, or anyone else, get pissed when they don't do it up to your standard

What does this have to do with fundamentalist whack jobs rewriting American history?

[CivilWars]

[quote=hawgballs ]

I am not the one griping about what the government is teaching my kids.

This thread isn't about people griping about "what the government is teaching my kids", it is about a bunch of fundamentalists re-writing history so they can shove their religious beliefs into the public foray.

If I want my kids to learn about God, then they do.

At home, not at "public school" which, again, is what this thread is about.
[quote=CivilWars ]
If I want my kids to learn about evolution, then they do.

If your kids are in public school, then that is what they will learn. Why? Because that is what is testable to the scientific method. Whereas the other thing I think you will mention isn't.

If I want my kids to learn algebra at 5 years old then guess what? The overarching point to me is if you, or anyone else, want someone else to raise your kids for you then how can you, or anyone else, get pissed when they don't do it up to your standard

What does this have to do with fundamentalist whack jobs rewriting American history?

I could bitch just as much about the hippie whack jobs that want to teach my kids sex education, evolution, BBT, or many other topics that are covered in public schools. It works both ways. If you don't like what people are teaching your kids then do something about it and either teach them what YOU want them to know, or pay someone to do it for you.

[DJ Ms. White]

When I have kids they're going straight into the IB program to get an education they can take anywhere.

[BigHub]

Screw K-12... my kid is going straight to Yale, right outta the vag.

[Rawr]

Screw K-12... my kid is going straight to Yale, right outta the vag.

thanks for the new sig =p

[BigHub]

Glad I could help...

[hawgballs]

I could bitch just as much about the hippie whack jobs that want to teach my kids sex education, evolution, BBT, or many other topics that are covered in public schools. It works both ways. If you don't like what people are teaching your kids then do something about it and either teach them what YOU want them to know, or pay someone to do it for you.

Apples and oranges my man. The BoE is actually re-writing history books. And the ones in your example, you know with all of the "hippie whack jobs", those classes are for public safety (sex ed) and scientifically viable especially for "science class"(evolution) amongst other things.

[RobinHood126]

Within the past year Texas Monthly did a really good article on the Texas board of Eduction.... Has some pretty good info, such as the majority of the people sitting on the board send their children to private schools.