They malign “progressives” because they think the women in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory probably got what they deserved, especially the “undocumented ones,” and truth be told, they are nervous about letting American democracy work, and so favor repeal of the 17th Amendment, turning control of the U.S. Senate back to U.S. corporations (what could possibly go wrong?).  Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” speech sometimes gets a pass, because they think Bryan was talking about Jesus’s crucifixion, and not getting the U.S. off the gold standard (again missing the point about letting corporations run the government, and willing to let corporations run the economy to the disadvantage of farmers, workers, and anyone not filthy rich to begin with).

And if you pin them down in debate, they’ll confess they think the progressives’ campaigns against child labor hurt the economy, and campaign against child abuse violates a mythical Biblical standard that allows parents to beat their children, “for the children’s good.”

It’s funny, almost.  CSCOPE was Texas’s in-your-face answer to Common Core.  It turns out most Texans opposed to a common canon of learning in the U.S., are really just opposed to education and learning.  Stupid peasants are easier to herd, you know, and rarely stand up for freedom.

But if we can shatter the foundations of American education, as Jefferson and Madison noted, American democracy cannot long stand.

They’d do what a lot of people on this thread are doing, Josiah.  Including you.

Whose side are you really on?

Here in Texas teachers are conservative, flag-waving Americans.  They skip over Marx when they can, preferring the drama of Patrick Henry, the stoic example of George Washington’s calm patriotism, and the brilliance of Thomas Jefferson’s renaissance-man life.

They couldn’t name a “crony” of Marx, and if such a crony were pointed out to them, they’d put that crony on their fecal material list.

You should come to America, come to Texas, and see for yourself.

Normally, if both the Federalist Papers and Marx is discussed, the teacher will sway her/her political opinion over to  favor Marx and make our Constitution or Fed Papers to seem outdated…it’s brainwashing..

Dorothy, it sounds like you live in the Soviet Union.  What you describe rarely happens in the U.S.

For example, here in Texas, the average teacher is a young, Texas-bred and Texas-educated woman, probably Methodist or Baptist, but with a few Presbyterians, Catholics and Pentacostals thrown in; devout Christian, Republican-voting conservative.

She would no more indoctrinate in Marx than she would give poison to her own kids (who attend the same schools). If you go to her home, on the 20 days a year the U.S. flag should be flown, it’s up. Heck, she flies it all weekend on Memorial Day and Labor Day, too. Her home library includes books mushy about the Declaration of Independence and the glories of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. She’s never read the Communist Manifesto, and doesn’t plan to do so.

You slander hundreds of thousands of Christian, Texas teachers. 

Please check the facts — why don’t you volunteer to help out in a Texas school and see for yourself?

Are you even in Texas?

Can’t Blaze get any facts right?

http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/more-unintentional-humor-from-texas-conservatives-cant-read-charts-on-economic-systems/

There are plenty of opportunities for kids to socialize outside of school where you can pick who they’re socializing with.  If you’re unsure you can handle it, there are many support sites and huge numbers of people who homeschool who’d be ecstatic to help a ‘new convert.’