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Texas School Board

Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 12:21 pm
by JesusA (imported)
In their continuing effort to sanitize school textbooks, the Texas School Board announced today that the title of the 1st grade reader "Dick and Jane” will be changed to "Dakota and Jen" due to the unintended Sexual and Drug references in the old title.

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Re: Texas School Board

Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 2:25 pm
by DeaconBlues (imported)
I do hope you are kidding, this PC bullshit has gone WAAAAYYYYYY too far already!

Re: Texas School Board

Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 8:45 pm
by Riverwind (imported)
No he is not, it is even worse than that, most of the text books used in this country are written once every 10 years, and sense Texas is the biggest buyer out of the gate they set the standard for the whole country. There latest is to rewrite history. So K - 12 will now learn some fabricated untruth and when they get to college they will know nothing.

Sad, yes.

River

Re: Texas School Board

Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:27 pm
by gareth19 (imported)
Riverwind (imported) wrote: Fri Sep 03, 2010 8:45 pm No he is not, it is even worse than that, most of the text books used in this country are written once every 10 years, and sense Texas is the biggest buyer out of the gate they set the standard for the whole country. There latest is to rewrite history. So K - 12 will now learn some fabricated untruth and when they get to college they will know nothing.

Sad, yes.

River

Alas, yes. You can thank the Texas Skool Board and its buying power for foisting "sintins di-grams" off on unsuspecting children even though no reputable linguist believes that the antiquated Reed-Kellog diagrams are of any value and actually are mistaken in that the same diagram is used for two different sentence types, that is it blurs the fundamental distinction between a declarative and interrogative sentence (in other words Is George Bush a complete idiot? and George Bush is a complete idiot. would be diagrammed the same way.

Worse yet, terrorists who spent four years killing American soldiers and whose avowed purpose was to destroy the federal system of government are proclaimed as honorable men with high ideals and the Civil War that they promulgated has been euphemized as "The War betwix the States" as if the central government whose Constitution these criminals attacked never existed.

Re: Texas School Board

Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 5:11 am
by Paolo
Didn't they already do away with Thomas Jefferson?

Re: Texas School Board

Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 6:16 am
by Riverwind (imported)
I think they now are replacing the word slave with servant because it sounds better. The next thing they will do is change the constitution that says slaves counted as 3/5ths of a person and eliminate it altogether because well it was a long time ago and who cares.

If that is not enough for the rest of the states to just say HELL NO we will not buy your books I don't know what is.

River

Re: Texas School Board

Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:12 pm
by chemcast scot (imported)
Is this not typical of the pc brigade, or is it just me.😠

Re: Texas School Board

Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:23 pm
by augman7518 (imported)
I have a lot of acceptance ,but this takes the cake.What will our good christians think of to do next?

Re: Texas School Board

Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 4:19 pm
by DeaconBlues (imported)
augman7518 (imported) wrote: Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:23 pm I have a lot of acceptance ,but this takes the cake.What will our good christians think of to do next?

What next? Given what HAS ALREADY HAPPENED, I really shudder to think about what's next.

Remember when, Jerry Fallwell decided that one of the "Tele-Tubbies" was GAY!! YES!! "Tinky Winky" was GAY!

Only after the good Reverend Fallwell had made this accusation did I bother to tune in and see these Satanic kid's role models on TV, and for the life of me I could not see ANYTHING even remotely sexual about any of the "Tele-Tubbies." Yet the good Reverend Fallwell was given the "gift of discernment" (that means he could see things that you and I can't because we're not pure good Christian like he was). Now, normally, when a person sees something than nobody else sees, well it's off to the looney bin with them, but not for Reverend Fallwell.

Anything that comes from the "Bible Belt" should be viewed with extreme caution. I find it difficult to accept that the OTHER 49 states allow Texas to dictate their schools' curriculum.

Fallwell (THE SEX OBSESSED PERVERT) saw something sexual in the "Tinky Winky" character, other SEX OBSESSED PERVERTS seem to see some raunchy sexual or drug inferences in the NAMES "Dick" and "Jane."

I wish I could remember just who said it first, but it is remarkably true: "People seem to forget that a man's opinion of the world is the most accurate confession of his own character."

Sex obsessed perverts see some sexual innuendo in everything, and they make wild and insane accusations of sexual perversions where nothing of the sort exists. If you see something "dirty" in the book title "Fun With Dick And Jane" then the DIRT IS IN YOUR MIND. If you look at "Tinky Winky" and see gay sexuality, then OBVIOUSLY, you hare GAY SEX OBSESSED.

A long time ago, I was an instructor in the military. I am not joking about this, we were officially ordered to NOT refer to the white board in the classroom as a "whiteboard." It had been commonly called a white board for many years, but now we had to call it a "dry erase board," because there might be a perceived racial bias if we called it a "whiteboard." And to think, when I went to school, they were "blackboards" (that were more often GREEN in color). So help me, IF you see some sort of racist message in a teacher or instructor putting a lesson up on a "whiteboard," they YOU are clearly race obsessed and need professional help.

Also while I was in the military, the word for a large paper-poster display mounted on a tri-podial easel was changed, what I had always called a "flip-chart," now had to be referred to as a "visual aid for presentation." Seems that some TOTALLY RACIST BIGOT felt that "flip" was a racial epithet for "Filipino." So, they see a "flip-chart" as an insult to the Filipinos, someone is clearly racially obsessed, and it is NOT the majority of us who once called that thing a "flip-chart."

I read that it was at one time considered quite vulgar for a "genteel lady" to even use the words "leg" or "breast" in public. So, when describing poultry parts, as in "would you like a breast, wing, thigh or drumstick?" A genteel person would not use such sexually suggestive words, "THIGH!" and "BREAST!" OH MY! So instead people said "white meat" or "dark meat." In some circles that "white meat/dark meat" thing could get you in a LOT of troublesome misunderstandings. Again, if someone gets a sexual turn on from just the word "leg," "breast" or "thigh" when describing fried chicken parts, then that person is a sex obsessed pervert, but if they read a racial meaning into "white meat" or "dark meat" when discussing chicken, then I say they are race obsessed.

Yet here I read that someone, someone involved in EDUCATION no less, finds something sexual or drug related in the names "Dick and Jane." OH GIVE ME A BREAK!