For those who decry "activism in the classroom"...

[EriktheRed]

Texan Critic Of Obama's 'Indoctrination' Speech Backs Actual Indoctrination In Textbooks​

Conservatives have spent the last week whipping themselves into a frenzy over President Obama's speech tomorrow in which he will indoctrinate the nation's schoolchildren using the instruments of mass media.

As it turns out, Obama's speech will be pretty anodyne. But one vocal critic of Obama's plans, has long been involved in an effort to actually indoctrinate students -- through the state-sanctioned textbooks they study all year.

Meet David Bradley, Republican member of the Texas State Board of Education from Beaumont.

Bradley is "one of the ring leaders" of the GOP-controlled board's large and activist social conservative bloc, says Dan Quinn of the Texas Freedom Network, which describes itself as committed to fighting the religious right. And Bradley will undoubtedly vote for the skewed history textbook standards we told you about last week that focus on Reaganomics, Newt Gingrich, and Phyllis Schlafly, Quinn says.

In one infamous episode in the late 1990s, Bradley physically ripped apart an Algebra textbook because he was unhappy with pictures, recipes, references to women's suffrage, and other subjects incorporated into the text.

In 2003, he voted with a minority of board members against new biology textbooks because they didn't address "weaknesses" in evolution, according to a Texas Freedom Network report (.pdf).

And in a story on the Gingrich-based textbook standards, Bradley is described as "one of the conservative leaders" and "figures the current draft will pass a preliminary vote along party lines 'once the napalm and smoke clear the room.'"

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[Xenophon]

Why do you post these things, knowing that what you post is only telling one side, and has no real baring on Obama talking to school kids?

Obama has changed and watered down his speech because of the complaints he would do what he normaly does (and did again today) be hyper partisan and again show he is only President for those who voted for him, everyone else can fuck off in Obama's world.

You think that mocking some nobody in texas will somehow mitigate what a dick Obama is?

Get serious.

 

[Modbert]

Xeno: Erik is merely pointing out the amount of hypocrisy.

This guy in Texas saying Obama is trying to "Indoctrinate" the students while actually trying to Indoctrinate education himself is a hypocrite.

It would be like Ted Bundy accusing someone else of being a serial killer.

Besides, what the fuck do you think Obama is going to say in a 5-10 minute speech that is going to turn all the children into little Socialists who bow at the sickle and hammer? Brainwash them? If we play his speech backwards while upside down do we hear his secret Socialist message in the new speech?

 

[Contumacious]

Conservatives have spent the last week whipping themselves into a frenzy over President Obama's speech tomorrow in which he will indoctrinate the nation's schoolchildren using the instruments of mass media.

Those parents who send their children to government schools yet protest obama's speech are a bunch of hypocrites:

"Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state." –Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine (1943)

 

[EriktheRed]

Xeno: Erik is merely pointing out the amount of hypocrisy.

This guy in Texas saying Obama is trying to "Indoctrinate" the students while actually trying to Indoctrinate education himself is a hypocrite.

Yup.