These big-state commissars have killed public education.
BobW
--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> The size of the Texas and California/New York State
> markets for schoolbooks, I am given to understand,
> explains in part the craven vanilla banality of
> school
> textbooks, as editor/writers of these doorstops, er,
> textbooks, try the impossible course of navigating
> between the extremes of Texican patriotic
> fundamentalism (no evolution! reverence for God and
> the US military! dead white men!) and California/New
> York liberal progressivism (mucho multiculturalism!
> watered-down feminism! political correctness up the
> wazoo!), trying to satisfy both markets while
> offending nobody. Texas may not be highbrow, but
> there
> are a lot of schools and a lot of students on that
> state, and an infamously ferocious and powerful
> textbook purchasing board that is always alert to
> any
> temptation to succumb to left wing decadence.
>
> --- Carl Remick <carlremick at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 7, 2007 2:26 PM, Dennis Claxton
> > <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > > B. wrote:
> > >
> > > >As far as a band called Texas Schoolbook
> > Depository
> > > >(which is now a museum)
> > >
> > > That's where I'd been when I had the traffic
> > trouble I was talking
> > > about. I bought a Jackie Kennedy by Warhol
> > refrigerator magnet at
> > > the gift shop. They have the room Oswald shot
> from
> > set up just as it
> > > was in photos from the Warren Commission report.
>
> > Pretty
> > > spooky.
> >
> > The thing I've always found most mysterious about
> > the Texas Schoolbook
> > Depository is its sheer size. How could a place
> > like Texas, globally
> > unsurpassed as a hotbed of anti-intellectualism,
> > possibly possess
> > enough school texts to fill a seven-story building
> > as bulky as the
> > Texas Schoolbook Depository? It's easier to
> imagine
> > a platoon or more
> > of snipers on the famous grassy knoll than to
> > envision Texas needing
> > that much room to stash schoolbooks.
> >
> > Carl
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