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pokerfan

(27,677 posts) Fri Jun 29, 2012, 05:44 PM Jun 2012

Texas GOP opposes teaching critical thinking skills (toon)

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Texas GOP opposes teaching critical thinking skills (toon) (Original Post) pokerfan Jun 2012 OP

my question is: will anybody besides cartoonists pick this up... phantom power Jun 2012 #1

Young Turks picked up on it... pokerfan Jun 2012 #2

phantom power

(25,966 posts)

1. my question is: will anybody besides cartoonists pick this up...

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Fri Jun 29, 2012, 05:58 PM

Jun 2012

and beat the GOP over the head with it over and over and over... ?

pokerfan

(27,677 posts)

2. Young Turks picked up on it...

Reply to phantom power (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 29, 2012, 06:15 PM

Jun 2012

"It seems more like a headline from the satirical newspaper The Onion, but the Republican Party of Texas recently published its party platform, a report that - among other things - calls for a ban on teaching critical thinking skills in Texas schools because of its "focus on behavior modification" that has "the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority." That's just one of the many startling positions adopted by the state's Republican Party at its recent convention in Fort Worth...".* They also want to repeal the Voting Rights Act Of 1965.

and the NYT Blog had a post.

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