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

[thewayne]

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

Comments

[silveradept]

...well, it is Texas, so that's not really...surprising. Somewhere, though, those ideas have got to conflict with the Common Core or something that Texas says they've adopted.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It could simply be a ploy to try to get more people to join the Texas GOP, or it could be a sincere effort to roll back a couple hundred years of social progress, in which case the Texas education system will slide further down the rabbit hole.

[silveradept]

And drag a lot of people and textbooks along with them, if that's the case. That's the scarier part - As Texas Goes, so goes a lot of the textbook market.