Texas Board of Education Fights Over History
Sometime after 11 p.m. Thursday, having bickered for some 14 hours like the children whose interests they're charged with representing, State Board of Education members failed to agree even on a vote to adjourn the meeting.
They had been nitpicking the state’s history standards and each other since 9 a.m., and the patience of some Democrats in the bunch — who'd lost all the votes, as usual — was wearing a little thin. “I want to know when you’re going to let me go to sleep,” said member Lawrence Allen, D-Fresno, to chairwoman Gail Lowe, R-Lampasas ...
Comments (14)
Robbie Cooper via Texas Tribune on Facebook
So we're still not allowed to use our President's middle name? Seriously?
Bobby Warren via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Funny, I don't remember people trotting Reagan's middle name out in casual conversation. Let's not get cute and pretend like it's not being done here for a particular reason.
Bryan Eagle via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I know! Who ca forget when Milhouse was President, or even Jefferson!?!
Tim Collins via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Baines, Gamaliel, Ulysses
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_middle_names_of_all_the_US_presidents
Cicely Wynne via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Would the Tea Party movement be around if the president were white?
Tim Collins via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Probably if all other conditions were equal
Beverly Acrey Kimbrough via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Nowadays, it does not seem like it takes much knowledge to be an expert historian.
Andrew Martin
Just like the Arizona State Legislature and its curriculum standards, the Texas SBOE is inserting itself in the kinds of decisions that really belong to local school boards and parents. Partisans on both sides of this debate consistently miss the underlying issue - that in legislating one set of standards or another, bodies of the state government undermine freedom, choice and the competition of ideas that benefit us all.
Andrew Martin via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Just like the Arizona State Legislature and its curriculum standards, the Texas SBOE is inserting itself in the kinds of decisions that really belong to local school boards and parents. Partisans on both sides of this debate consistently miss the underlying issue - that in legislating one set of standards or another, bodies of the state government undermine freedom, choice and the competition of ideas that benefit us all.
RBellMetereau
There was a large demonstration and a press conference on Wednesday and everyone is asking the board to delay approval of the revisions and turn it back to experts and the original review committee. It is clear that the board should "take a step back, take a deep breath, and try to pick up the pieces," according to Representative Martinez Fisher, Chair of the Mexican American Legislative Caucus. We need to send this document back to the curriculum committees and craft the best curriculum we can create. It needs to be less nitpicky and we need to put control back in the hands of the educators instead of leaving it in control of conservative board members who were not reelected and do not represent the opinions of their constituents.
Bill Conley via Texas Tribune on Facebook
You are absolutely allowed to use the president's middle name. And, of course, others are absolutely allowed to then draw conclusions about you and your reasons for feeling obliged to do so.
Miranda
I have the perfect compromise over the president's middle name. I propose that the board SHOULD include the president's middle name, but since Americans like everything to be in English, they use the English translation for Hussein... Blessing.
Gary Packwood
This is a great article with a wonderful headline.
Our grandchildren will never read a textbook entry about the middle name of the POTUS but I fear they will read a brief chapter in their textbooks about this silly debate started by David Bradley of Beaumont, Texas...
As a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
And yes, Hussein = Blessing (in English)
Good Catch - Miranda 2:48 PM
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Jesus B Ochoa via Texas Tribune on Facebook
A tea party for a white president? Hell no. Racism rules the republican party.