Teach Your Children Well

Or not.  The AP reports today "23 percent of recent high school graduates don't get the minimum score needed on the enlistment test to join any branch of the military."  That means that the education system is turning out people who can't "answer basic math, science and reading questions."


And their social studies skills are in danger too.  "A far-right faction of the Texas State Board of Education succeeded Friday in injecting conservative ideals into social studies, history and economics lessons that will be taught to millions of students for the next decade."  HuffingtonPost.com

And what type of "conservative ideals" are they injecting?  Well, taking Thomas Jefferson OUT of the world history standards; No church-state separation; describe the U.S. government as a "constitutional republic," rather than "democratic"; won't require that “students learn that the Constitution prevents the U.S. government from promoting one religion over all others”;  'the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s - but not anything about liberals.


There are a few more, like no hip hop, so sex/gender differentiation, and no Edward Kennedy.  Yet some Democrats were able to keep out the part that said the civil rights movement led to "unrealistic expectations for equal outcomes."

Sad part about this is that since Texas is the biggest, the standards that the school board adopts gets printed in all the text books throughout the states.  So, teach your children the good ol' Texas way.  Not the right way.