“Most state education boards choose textbooks for their state instead of letting local or regional school boards do the choosing. Perhaps, that needs to change.”
And in what parallel universe will this happen? Moreover, the same types of books would generally be chosen at ANY LEVEL by our highly trained education professionals because they are throughly indoctrinated to believe the very things that are in the books.
achilles2000,
It is amazing how many conservatives persist in believing that government schools can be reformed. I have seen the following posted **repeatedly**:
* If only the Department of Education were shut down...
* If only there were local control...
* If only local school boards chose the textbooks...
* If only conservatives would elect better school board members...
* If only the NEA were outlawed...
* If only we had parents that supervised their children...
* If only parents would complain more...
* If only teachers had to get a real degree instead of an education degree...
* If only we had better textbooks and curriculum.
* If only that taught Singapore Math...
* If only they taught phonics...
* If only they got the politics, religion, and culture out of the schools... ( Of course that's impossible!)
* If only schools would teach both sides of the issue...
* If only schools were neutral...( Impossible!)
(I am surely that I have forgotten a few.)
All of these people believe that government schools can be reformed. All of these people fail to realize:
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS CAN NOT BE REFORMED!!! GOVERENMENT SCHOOLS ARE AND ALWAYS WERE A SOCIALIST PROGRAM. SOCIALISM CAN NOT BE REFORMED!!!!
Regardless of what is taught, government schools teach children that it is OK for the government to extract money from their neighbor ( under police threat) to pay for a service that their parents want for FREE!
Give children a government school object lesson in socialism every day for 13 years or more years and the adult will vote for FDR and his New Deal, and every other socialist program that has existed in the last century and now the 21st century.
( Yes, I am shouting. I am exasperated at how densely stupid conservatives can be. )