Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Who'd a thunk it?
It seems that the extremism in Texas education policies does not sit well with its neighbors. Despite the efforts of Bubba Jindal to emulate if, the Orleans parish school district has refused to accept anything that follow the Texas Whackdoodle educational guidelines.
A Louisiana school district voted on Wednesday to ban from its schools any textbooks and school curricula that follows the guidelines of Texas’ extreme, ideological standards.This will piss off a lot of good old boys in Baton Rouge.
Texas approved a hard-right curriculum in 2010 that allowed teachers to convey inaccurate information to their students. But Orleans Parish (which covers New Orleans) schools were so worried about the spread of misinformation that it approved explicit rules requiring teachers to teach accurate historical and scientific information omitted by the Texas rules:
“No history textbook shall be approved which has been adjusted in accordance with the State of Texas revisionist guidelines nor shall any science textbook be approved which presents creationism or intelligent design as science or scientific theories…No teacher of any discipline of science shall teach any aspect of religious faith as science or in a science class,” it reads. “No teacher of any discipline of science shall teach creationism or intelligent design in classes designated as science classes.”
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