Moses was the Founding Father of the United States of Texas (Shit Texas Says thread: GTFO FLORIDA)

[6souls]

Texas Textbooks get History & Geography Wrong Despite Multiple Layers of Editorial Proofreading

Coby Burren was reading his textbook, sitting in geography class at Pearland High School near Houston, when he noticed a troubling caption.

Next to a map of the United States describing "patterns of immigration," it read that the Atlantic slave trade brought "millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations."

Coby caught a textbook error that had been missed by several editorial layers, starting with mega publisher McGraw-Hill Education, followed by the official textbook reviewers and, finally, members of the Texas Board of Education who have the final say on materials like this.

Roni Dean-Burren, Coby's mother, is a former teacher pursuing her doctorate at the University of Houston. She points out that, while the book describes many Europeans immigrating as indentured servants, she found no mention in this lesson of Africans forced to the U.S. as slaves.

Both the publisher and Texas officials have agreed that the caption was inappropriate. But it's not clear if or how much the adoption process for new textbooks will change.

In the past year, Texas textbooks have been criticized for listing Moses as a Founding Father and for downplaying slavery as a cause of the Civil War. Those issues stemmed from the learning standards that the Texas State Board of Education sets to guide publishers.

But David Levin, CEO of McGraw-Hill Education, believes this mistake was an editorial error and not a problem with the standards or what he calls a "transparent" adoption process.

There are 100,000 copies of the book in Texas, tens of thousands more around the country, and the company is scrambling to fix the problem. It will ship corrected copies to schools for free, or it will provide a sticker to cover the caption, along with a lesson plan about the cultural context of language.

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/...-editing-error
http://houstonpublicmedia.com/news/h...out-reference/
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/opin...le-6559496.php

[enzan]

I still can't wrap my head around the whole Moses thing. I want to believe that people would see the mistake, but I just can't. I know there is some kid in Texas right now that thinks Moses was a founding father

[Ksandra]

Somehow I wouldn't be surprised if there are adult Texans who believe it.

[6souls]

So Houston is flooding right now and people just don't know how to deal.


http://www.khou.com/news/local/despe...oint/141300335



More:

https://twitter.com/KHOU
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...-reported-dead

[Byrthnoth]

Need Moses to split the Texan sea.

[arus2001]

S'ok, looks like Denzel is on it.

[Dimmauk]

So Houston is flooding right now and people just don't know how to deal.


http://www.khou.com/news/local/despe...oint/141300335



More:

https://twitter.com/KHOU
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...-reported-dead

The black guy in that picture doesnt like your post.

And im fucking dying laughing at the video. I get to meet my insurance agent on Monday to assess the damages to my home and cars thanks to the hail and flooding.

[Stromgarde]

I was watching that live on Channel 11 as it happened. Apparently the guy is a University of Houston professor.

[6souls]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...ost-texans-gay

Looks like Full Metal Jacket's Sergeant Hartman was actually correct about Texas.

[6souls]

White Lives Matter protest in Dallas - https://twitter.com/djinisinabottle/...44617531084800

[Ragnus]

Wat

[6souls]

16 dead in hot air balloon accident. Hit power lines and ignited.

[Lucavi]

Moses didn't save them.

Unfortunate.

Seriously though, that's awful. I always love watching a hot air balloon overhead.

[Andalusian girls]

White Lives Matter protest in Dallas - https://twitter.com/djinisinabottle/...44617531084800

those people look exactly as i imagined they would look

[Galkaeater]

FBI is up to its old tricks i see

[6souls]

White Lives Matter protest in Dallas - https://twitter.com/djinisinabottle/...44617531084800

New protest in Houston at the NAACP offices - http://m.chron.com/houston/article/W...CP-9176142.php

[6souls]

Dallas Weather Sirens Hacked
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39552471

[6souls]

Texas Senate passes "Freedom to Serve Children Act" which allows Religious Freedom when selecting who to allow to Adopt

Texas' Republican-controlled Senate approved a bill early Monday that allows publicly funded foster care and adoption agencies to refuse to place children with non-Christian, unmarried or gay prospective parents because of religious objections.

About 25 percent of the agencies that are paid by Texas to place children with families are private foster care and adoption organizations. Many of those groups admit they don't work with adoptive parents who are single, gay or non-Christian, and the bill could keep them from being sued.

Sen. Eddie Lucio, a Brownsville Democrat, joined Republicans in voting for the bill in the hopes it will draw more private, religious-based adoption agencies into the system.

"It's about increasing capacity, it's about providing homes for kids," Lucio said.

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/05...option-measure

[tyven]

Texas Senate passes "Freedom to Serve Children Act" which allows Religious Freedom when selecting who to allow to Adopt

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/05...option-measure

ah yes, potentially eliminating the demographic most likely to adopt is a sure way to increase capacity and provide homes for a children. Texas has really nailed it again!

[Zeb]

"It's about increasing capacity, it's about providing homes for kids," Lucio said."Why are you so angry?"

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