Texas GOP platform wants to ban the teaching of critical thinking in public schools

They have one of the lowest highschool graduation rates in the country, and they want to add this? They also want abstinence-only education, guaranteed to increase the teen pregnancy rate.

I guess we'll see a book published in a couple of years titled "Why Billy Bob Can't Think".

GO TEXAS!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/27/texas-republican-party-2012-platform-education_n_1632097.html

http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/06/28/2059203/texas-gop-educational-platform-opposes-teaching-critical-thinking-skills