"Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."

from here

I'm a bit surprised they'd put it that way.

I hate to think that all Texans think this way. This is coming from the Republican Party of Texas, and their political platform shouldn't really surprise anyone. Including this excerpt from it:



Is that sentiment really "shared by the majority of Texans"? Mayhaps the Republican Party of Texas is presuming much.

Oh, almost forgot... Fuck the Republican Party of Texas up the arse with a Texas longhorn. Yee haw.

-- Nephele

Oops. My mistake, I meant to mention that it was the Texas Republican Party.

I must say I feel this is a prime example of how certain groups want to keep people ignorant in any way possible in order to control and manipulate them. If people are not being taught critical thinking skills- then how can they question the government with any level of intellectual evaluation and research if their not even taught how to think for themselves and the essentials on how to do it?

I think the Texas Republican party is taking their little agenda too far. When are people going to wake up and realize that ideas like this are harmful- not helpful, no matter the political affiliation. Hindering rather than helping. Promoting hate and bigotry instead of equality and tolerance.

They want to say this is a 'Christian Nation" (and I'm not even getting started on that debate!) and their values are ingrained into our government, yet they refuse to preach the way of love as Jesus taught it within the parties they represent. I'm not bashing anyone, but simply making a correlation as I find it to be on a general observance.

I also cannot trust anything that disapproves of higher learning, while in the same instance bashes homosexuality. We all no how harmful it is to not be able to tap into our own intelligence because we never reach our full potential that way (which is probably what the Texas Republican Party fears). If we know how ridiculous it is to not allow higher education- then I'd also take everything else they said with a grain of salt, including homosexuality.

I certainly hope this hasn't and will not go into law.

The Republican Party of Texas is now saying that they made a mistake.



Read full article here.

"Mistake" or not, it looks like a vote for the Republican Party in Texas is a vote for stupidity.

-- Nephele

Yes, that. I'm not necessarily anti-Republican, but sheesh.

No, it's a vote for liars. There's no way that explaination is true.

I highly doubt it was a mistake- why make it to begin with? the problem, I think, is that they were wanting it to be overlooked and it wasn't. People got angry so they had to pretend it was a mistake. Do I think it was a mistake? Hell no. The only mistake they probably think they made was being obvious enough to get caught.

And how many people lacking in higher education and critical thinking skills do you think will believe them and vote for them?

I also think that it wasn't a mistake. Because I've seen something like that here. There was a party (or a project or whatever) called "Alternativa Portugal" and one of the things they said was that that party/program/whatever was composed by men and women that don't accept the renegation of our christian roots and also said that our (young people) concerns are their concerns (yeah righ and I’m the Easter Bunny), and also said that they want to educate young people according to ethic and moral values that they have lost because of primary urban subcultures from other countries (and because of other things too). They talk about liberty, but liberty in doing what they want us to do and not in doing what we want to do (is this liberty?). In another words they are a conservative project that appears to came from Salazar’s head.