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wonder if they say Gettysburg was a draw? that's a personal favorite of mine.

well that's high blood pressure waiting to happen. i think i'll avoid this one.

Its a must see. Might even be cathartic.

My kids go to public schools and they would laugh at the idea that dinosaurs and people walked the earth at the same time. My common sense youngest would say, "but Dad, there are alligators down south, turtles in the desert behind us, and eagles flying in the sky right now. Aren't they descendants of dinosaurs and the living ancestors of them? So technically we are living side by side with them now. Maybe the text book will make that point?". I would smile a thank you and continue doing the dishes.

I wouldn't be too afraid of the brain washing. Kids grow up and common sense will rule regardless of the damned freaks and there misguided BS. Now college?? Whole different sinister beast right there.

Ya. College aged peeps are even less able to think for themselves, apparently. Best time to fill their heads with elitist propaganda.

Damned fancy book learnin'. Ruining the country.

Young kids believe what they are told. Young adults roll their eyes about 90% of the time when the crazy rolls through.

i can't tell you how many things i've been doing wrong for the longest time because that's how i learned it in elementary school. took me till college before i began noticing some of them.


jk i was brainwashed to love stalin.

After watching just that trailer I see the reason why many cons want to get rid of the DoE.

I don't think I could watch the whole show though. So I shouldn't judge.

"somebody's gotta stand up to these experts!"

lol

speaking of evolution and textbooks, i've mentioned it before but the textbooks just copy each other over and over again as it's all "fact" and don't put in anything new. then they charge 150 bucks for each book. case in point would be the consistent use of sizing the "dawn horse" to that of a "fox terrier". fox terriers were common over a hundred years ago. i couldn't tell you what size they are, other than they are about the size of a dawn horse. yet most people have heard this because in their text book it likely said that... because they keep on copying stuff.

now, take this further, and some of the less apparent things (like evolution) that some administrator had used their power to change... well they changed it, then it was copied. it wasn't that big a deal so no one changed it and it just keeps getting copied and copied forward, as fact

in seventh grade i took american history when i lived in new york. we learned up until the civil rights era. in eighth grade i moved to rhode island and took american history again, this time only until the revolutionary war. they used the same exact text book, yet didn't go as far. still, in some respects it went more in depth (although to be fair, rhode island public schools are plain awful and i learned a lot more the year before in a private ny school, but i would guess a ny public school would be better too, because, as noted, rhode island public schools are awful) so i would agree with menson that they aren't just going to go off the text book. although some will, especially teachers that don't know the subject themselves

Good thing this isn't the norm for people, and its sad this guy is able to get in a position such as this.