re: #59 Varek Raith

I will make fun of those who LIE ABOUT HISTORY! Which is what the TSBOE is doing.
LYING ABOUT HISTORY.
State’s Rights, FEH!

I did all my time in Texas public school. Every damned year from about 5th grade onward, history class started with the European explorers of the New World and ended with Reconstruction after the civil war. We were drilled in names, places, and dates, and absolutely no context or analysis whatsoever.

“Science” consisted of memorizing Newton’s three laws; being able to name protons, electrons, and neutrons; memorizing the atomic number of a handful of elements; and vaguely describing the reproductive mechanism of flowers.

It was the same fucking classes every year, just with ever-increasing loads of busy work.