I’m
not exaggerating. I can’t make this shit
up. This is scary. The Texas GOP wants people to stay
stupid, and though that is not their term, they
might have just as well said it. Here
are their entire published platforms (2012 Texas GOP Platforms),
but I only need to quote three of them.
Under
the section titled, “Educating our Children,” consider these three platforms:
“Knowledge-Based
Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS),
critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of
Outcome-Based Education which focus on behavior modification and have the
purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental
authority.”
“American
Identity Patriotism and Loyalty – We believe the current teaching of a multicultural
curriculum is divisive. We favor
strengthening our common American identity and loyalty instead of political
correctness that nurtures alienation among racial and ethnic groups. Students should pledge allegiance to the
American and Texas flags daily to instill patriotism.”
“Classroom
Discipline – We recommend that local school boards and classroom teachers
be given more authority to deal with disciplinary problems. Corporal punishment is effective and legal in
Texas.”
What
do I take from this? Well if i be
grownenup in teXass if dat stuff pases, shit mann i’d betaking my guns (all
sicks of dem) and getting my own ways doin things. Who needs all dem fuckin intiliignt peeple
who thinkk they no whats goin oon. get
away you muthr fuckin imiggrant hoo dosnet look like me! ill smak you side the head like my teachrs
did!
Ok,
my stupid-speak needs work, but what the hell?!
This is what they are saying: “Stop
thinking for yourself, do not question the authority of your parents or your
church, other cultures do not matter, and if you question this we reserve the
right to beat it into you! We are
stupid, and we want to keep you stupid too (at any cost, remember we did say
‘corporal punishment’ lest you forgot).”
In
a world where we need clearer and clearer thinking to get ourselves out of big
holes we have dug for ourselves (recession, future national financial health,
diminishing natural resources, ethnic/religious/gender tensions) and holes not
of our own (global warming), the Texas Republicans couldn’t be any more wrong
and backward. We need to think better,
we need to be able to interact with a whole collage of different peoples, and
hitting never encourages the appropriate kind of learning.
The
only way for our children to have brighter futures in their own careers and
their country is to teach them to think well.
That is why a liberal education is so damn important. Employers don’t want dumbasses who can only
spit back preprogrammed information that will be obsolete in two years. They want people who can think, who can adapt
to new situations, and solve real, messy problems. This is what our country needs more than
ever.
Texas
Republicans are just idiots if they can’t see any of that.
Boooooo on Texas
ReplyDeleteNo, they aren't idiots. They know exactly what they're doing. They are doing everything to stay rich and in power and in control. They are the strong and we are the weak. They have all the resources and the means to dominate, and so they will. They have no virtue, no goodwill, no compassion. Sure we might have intellectual strength but that means nothing in this world, or at least in this country.
ReplyDeleteWell, judging from the platforms you cited I feel sorry for the children in Texas. Being that I don't feel that anything I say will make the GOP in Texas change their minds, I would just say lets wait and see what kind of wonderful people come out of the Texas schools as a result of these ideas.
ReplyDeleteWait-wait-wait.. o.k., I read some of the platform from another online source. There's another platform that says they want to make sure you can be fired for "sexually immoral" conduct (or not hired at all) for being homosexual. Great. Fine. Who am I to tell Texas what to do. I do however have an idea for the rest of the states. Anybody from Texas should here-to-fore be reffered to as a Texan-American. I mean it worked with African-Americans and Native-Americans. Shouldn't the rest of us know what we're getting into if we happen to be talking to someone from Texas? If we're going to aknowledge these people as real Americans and assimilate Texans into our world, we need to have some kind of warning.
ReplyDelete-Free Willy