Friday, February 8, 2013

Texas Wingnuts Outraged By Their Own Schools Curriculum | Crooks and Liars

Texas Wingnuts Outraged By Their Own Schools Curriculum | Crooks and Liars:


Oh, Texas. You never fail to reach a new height of strangeness, especially when it comes to your own schools.
On its face, this story appears to look like some librul doofus snuck Commie curriculum into their state-approved materials for online learning. Fox leads off with a big intro from AFP's Texas Director Peggy Venable, and segues into an interview with Texas senator Dan Patrick about horrible, awful, un-American, dirty commie hippie freak progressive lesson plans.
In the clips of testimony shown, one teacher is horrified that students are asked to design a flag for a newly-created socialist state. Damned radical commie lesson, it is! Another teacher testified that being forced to teach the CSCOPE curriculum is like being a surgeon