A handful of kooks with religious and political beliefs that were worse than retrograde in the 18th Century and would have appalled the Founders they claim to revere are about to sabotage the educations of a generation of Texas schoolchildren and possibly the educations of children in many other states that buy these Texas approved Right Wing manifestos. Lance Mannion
The Texas School Board story is in the news and those who care about intellectual balance, fairness, and yes, about scholarship should be forewarned: the right wingers in the Lone Star state are about to decimate the teaching of accurate American history in the service of ideology. As Lance Mannion points out, letting right wing ideologues teach history without knowledge is no different than letting them practice medicine without a degree or build bridges without an engineering license.
God created America; God wants you to watch Fox TV; God never reads Mark Twain…
S.K.
Planet of the Blind 