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Preview For This Week's Top 10 Conservative Idiots
History curriculum in Texas remembers the Alamo, but could soon forget Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller.
As part of an effort to "streamline" the social studies curriculum in Texas, the State Board of Education voted on Friday to change what students in every grade are required to learn in the classroom. They voted to remove several historical figures, including Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller.
The board also voted to add back into the curriculum a reference to the "heroism" of the defenders of the Alamo, which had been recommended for elimination, as well as Moses' influence on the writing of the founding documents, multiple references to "Judeo-Christian" values and a requirement that students explain how the "Arab rejection of the State of Israel has led to ongoing conflict" in the Middle East.
The vote Friday was preliminary. The board, which is elected to represent geographic areas, will take a final vote on these curriculum changes in November and can make further amendments before then.
Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2018/09/14/history-curriculum-texas-remembers-alamo-forgets-hillary-clinton-helen-keller
As part of an effort to "streamline" the social studies curriculum in Texas, the State Board of Education voted on Friday to change what students in every grade are required to learn in the classroom. They voted to remove several historical figures, including Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller.
The board also voted to add back into the curriculum a reference to the "heroism" of the defenders of the Alamo, which had been recommended for elimination, as well as Moses' influence on the writing of the founding documents, multiple references to "Judeo-Christian" values and a requirement that students explain how the "Arab rejection of the State of Israel has led to ongoing conflict" in the Middle East.
The vote Friday was preliminary. The board, which is elected to represent geographic areas, will take a final vote on these curriculum changes in November and can make further amendments before then.
Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2018/09/14/history-curriculum-texas-remembers-alamo-forgets-hillary-clinton-helen-keller
So if we extrapolate this it's much easier to remove Hillary Clinton from textbooks than it is to remove Trump from the White House!
*audience applauds wildly*
This week on the Top 10 we are live from Oxnard! We play a game of "Where In The World Is Brett Kavanaugh's Debt?", Paul Manafort flips and pleads guilty, Trump denies that the death toll in Puerto Rico never happened, the NRA goes full 1488, we ask how the Nazi Salute is still a thing, and we ask about whether or not it's acceptable to use the white power OK symbol. Plus in our weekly investigative piece Top 10 Investigates, we're going to take a look at the Sears retail chain and their rough financial shape - who's to blame? And in our weekly visit to the Holy Church Of The Top 10 in "Holy Shit", our resident pastor is going to challenge Pat Robertson's claims that he can simply pray away the hurricane. Plus we're going to debut a new segment called "Know Your Meme" and we're going to ask whether or not it's ever OK to use the white power OK symbol (hint: it isn't ever). And we have a new edition of "I Need A Drink" in which we're going to challenge Mark Wahlberg's insanely regimented daily routine. And the next installment of our ongoing series Deep State Diaries is going to take us sailing as we explore the US Navy! Plus some live music from Gorillaz!
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