03-26-2009, 02:57 PM
I'm getting pretty sick of the Texas bashing that is so en vogue - all the cool kids are doing it...
Most of the time it's from people that have never been here, or feel their layover at IAH qualifies them to speak on all things Texas. Or maybe they saw the show Dallas once.
But the right wing has taken over the school boards here. This used to be a job that not many people wanted, but determining the direction of education wields significant influence. The right wing saw an opportunity and has organized to take this over and are using it to push a political and religious agenda. I can't express my contempt for the people that are doing this to our children.
My wife is a professor at Texas A&M specializing in nano-toxicology. I asked her why science professors don't get involved and voice their objection and outrage. The public school system feeds into universities and professors will have to undo the damage done by these wing-nuts.
Honestly, it sounds like most professors are afraid to get involved. Afraid of reprisal for speaking out, especially those without tenure. It's a real shame.
The obvious suggestion is for moderates to organize and take back the school boards, but the right is better organized, better at sensationalizing the subject and scaring the sheeple into believing that any moderate or science-based education platform will lead to the warping of their children, the unraveling of society, the devaluing of human life and would be offensive to their invisible friend.
And it's perfectly legitimate to compare these people to the mullahs, but most of Texas is not this way and it is not justifiable to characterize 24 million people as backwards, knuckle-dragging, religious zealots.
And as far as "giving Texas back to Mexico" goes, the US never took Texas from anyone, so I don't see how you can give it back. Texas declared its independence from Mexico, was its own country for 10 years, and then joined the US voluntarily. Its just an idiotic statement.
Most of the time it's from people that have never been here, or feel their layover at IAH qualifies them to speak on all things Texas. Or maybe they saw the show Dallas once.
But the right wing has taken over the school boards here. This used to be a job that not many people wanted, but determining the direction of education wields significant influence. The right wing saw an opportunity and has organized to take this over and are using it to push a political and religious agenda. I can't express my contempt for the people that are doing this to our children.
My wife is a professor at Texas A&M specializing in nano-toxicology. I asked her why science professors don't get involved and voice their objection and outrage. The public school system feeds into universities and professors will have to undo the damage done by these wing-nuts.
Honestly, it sounds like most professors are afraid to get involved. Afraid of reprisal for speaking out, especially those without tenure. It's a real shame.
The obvious suggestion is for moderates to organize and take back the school boards, but the right is better organized, better at sensationalizing the subject and scaring the sheeple into believing that any moderate or science-based education platform will lead to the warping of their children, the unraveling of society, the devaluing of human life and would be offensive to their invisible friend.
And it's perfectly legitimate to compare these people to the mullahs, but most of Texas is not this way and it is not justifiable to characterize 24 million people as backwards, knuckle-dragging, religious zealots.
And as far as "giving Texas back to Mexico" goes, the US never took Texas from anyone, so I don't see how you can give it back. Texas declared its independence from Mexico, was its own country for 10 years, and then joined the US voluntarily. Its just an idiotic statement.