Not to worry though, the GOP has not been driving that particular bus for decades. Hard to steer when one is relegated to the back.

The republicans are fully in charge of the Texas state government, top to bottom. They own the bus.

And something even more frightening...Texas pretty much controls what the nationwide school textbook publishers put in textbooks. So a policy like noncritical thinking becomes the defacto standard for textbooks that children in Juneau use.

What's Rush telling you to (noncritically) think about this?

Texas' GOP. Fine. Throwing Stephen Colbert from Comedy Central into the mix as a source is certainly pulitzer quality.
As the Texas platform quote goes: "focus on behavior modification...challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."
I do not know Limbaugh's position on this issue (I can guess) but I have my own personal and vicarious experience relating to how much of the school day is becoming devoted to the social engineering of our students K-12 and particularly college. In my view 'critical thinking' should not result in my children coming home from school and challenging my family unit's fixed beliefs as onerous as they may be to his/her third grade teacher.
Mr. Pitt's position would have been strengthened had he exposed Texas' educational scores as below the national level. His omission suggests otherwise.
The GOP may be driving the political bus in Texas, but the classroom is another matter.

BTW: The Dems do the same regarding textbooks in their districts.

I finally relented and Googled "roflmao" and can't believe it. You use that expression every time you post.
Get off the floor, young man!
You might learn something from the grown-ups standing around you.

it is unlikely Christianity's Adam and Eve is touched on. On the other hand every other religion is fair game pursuant to a world view of history. Personally I am of the opinion that evolution and science would be a natural course for any Supreme Being to employ and I have no problem with empirical data being presented to age-appropriate children in the proper context of higher learning. I see the bar, though, of 'age-appropriate' being lowered to the point of 'indoctrination'.

Your comments sure are interesting, but I would like to make one clarification here.

You accuse Obama and his minions of shipping 100s of thousands of jobs overseas. Let's analyze that a little more.

The structure of our economy in the United States legally requires exponential growth. Corporations whose shares are publicly traded on the NASDAQ, NYSE, etc. are legally required to do everything in their power to increase the value of their shares for their shareholders. In other words, corporations are mandated to do all that they can to ensure each quarter's profits exceed last quarter's profits.

How do these corporations achieve exponential growth, you ask? A number of ways. They cut environmental corners and pay EPA fines because the fines are often cheaper than developing the technology to operate responsibly. They lobby for federal subsidies while simultaneously banking overseas to avoid paying U.S. taxes. They buy out smaller businesses nation-wide, i.e. mom and pop stores that formerly defined our communities, and replace them with the same cookie cutter stores you can find in Anytown, USA (why do you think there are so many Bed Bath and Beyonds, Wal-Marts, Targets, PetCo's, etc.).

These corporations also export jobs overseas, or as they say in their language, they "seek cheaper labor markets." Why do they do this? Because it's much cheaper to pay someone in India to answer your phone call when you have an inquiry on your Visa credit card than it is to pay someone in the U.S. to do the same job. Or closer to home, why do you think Xtratufs are now manufactured in Mexico rather than in the U.S.? Because the U.S. values the idea of a living wage, which is inconvenient for corporations fixed on exponential growth. Living wages do not equal ever-increasing corporate profits.

The outsourcing of 100s of thousands of jobs LONG predates the Obama administration. Our country, and our country's economic structure, revolves around the legal requirement to increase publicly-traded share values. In other words, our economic structure indirectly requires the outsourcing of U.S. jobs. It's not difficult to connect the dots and see where that equation ultimately winds up.

I wonder where the patriotic Texas Board of Education stands on this issue?

I loved the paragraph which begins, "The party has since devolved." - - - and then NewLife chimed in and illustrated that paragraph perfectly.

believe in freedom of religion?

are you equivocating the jobs CEO and Union Boss?

I can't wait to crack a beer after work and read the rest of the comments coming when the real posters catch wind of who's at fault for America being what it is today. I will say posters that post against lat and sg's thought out and reasesrched posts are making my swing to the left much easier.

Everytime Newlife posts a republican or independent reregisters democrat. True story, literally at least once :)

I missed the disparity -- is it in terms of the amount of damage to your living room, which one's more intrusive, or which one's the more benign? Also, who's living room? The CEO's pay comes from the private sector (most times, then there's Freddie & Fannie et al), while the Union Chieftain's comes from union dues.

those are excellent questions. Who is allowing this to happen?

sounds endemic to the lobbyist-legislator dynamics, like fmr-Sen. Dodd's arrangement with Countrywide Financial.

point taken. I am always questioning. But I am of an appropriate age and experience to participate rather than just observe and accept. I am also better equipped to challenge.

But Grendel always just pretends not to understand logic or facts when it doesn't agree with his "fixed beliefs".

Your clarifications were very well said.