At the same time the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to both Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage advocate for female education and children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi, of India, there is a group who does not want students to have the correct information and in fact want to change history to suit their own agenda. If books include any scientific reference to evolution for example, they must have an ‘alternative’ concept which will show both sides of the issue.
We’re not talking about thousands of school children in parts of war-torn Syria who will no longer study math, social studies, elections and democracy under new dictates from the Islamic State militants.
The people who do not want to allow scientifically accurate information in their school books are the Texas Board of Education right here in the good old USA.
Since Texas is the nation’s second largest buyer of textbooks, books produced for the state are often sold around the country so students nationwide would be negatively impacted by the scientifically inaccurate texts.
David Bradley, conservative member of the TBE said recently, “Climate change is a myth that’s very much up for debate. For example when someone tells you gravity is real, don’t believe them. It’s your own God given faith that keeps you on this earth. Creative thinkers tend to ‘float away’.”
“Students are learning the history we don’t agree with,” said Josefus Inglehorn. “When we ask the question, ‘why did Washington cross the Delaware?’ the correct answer is ‘to get to the other side.’ It doesn’t matter why he went.”
The education board previously approved social studies and history curriculum in which children learned that the words “separation of church and state” were not in the Constitution. And, Thomas Jefferson was replaced as an example of an influential political philosopher with the likes of John Calvin, a hero of the religious right.
The TBE contacted the new so called, Islamic State, for some pointers on how to effectively handle the ‘education outbreak’ in Texas.
“Warn students to not ‘think educated thoughts’ or the ‘thought’ police will drag them from their homes and make them watch ‘Plan 9 from Outer Space’ possibly the worst movie of all time”, said kahlid Nokakka, a spokes-terrorist for the group.
In return, the jihadists received funding for their program from the Texas Board of Education in the line item ‘extracurricular activities, not including music and phys. ed.
