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paleotn

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6. Due to their size, big states often have undue influence on the content of textbooks used throughout the country.

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Sun Nov 19, 2023, 08:51 AM

Nov 2023

It's not economical in many cases for publishers to have multiple versions, so the land of sanity gets stuck with watered down and / or outright bullshit. That's no way to properly educate kids.

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Texas pushes some textbook publishers to remove material on fossil fuels [View all] sl8 Nov 2023 OP

No words, just.... joshdawg Nov 2023 #1

Well, that's Texas for you. Teach the Bible because kids don't need to know anything else! Lonestarblue Nov 2023 #2

A pity we can't just have fake textbooks for Jebusland and actual textbooks for the rest of the country. paleotn Nov 2023 #3

well, they kinda do already in TX. EOM consider_this Nov 2023 #5

Due to their size, big states often have undue influence on the content of textbooks used throughout the country. paleotn Nov 2023 #6

oh, makes so much sense... consider_this Nov 2023 #4

They won't do well in college, if any of them actually go to college Walleye Nov 2023 #7

GQP dark ages................................ Lovie777 Nov 2023 #8

No such thing as fossil fuel as there is no such thing as fossils. World is only 6k years old. Wonder Why Nov 2023 #9

Publishers should provide supplemental material to non-regressive State public schools. Freethinker65 Nov 2023 #10