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- steven1969, on 04/28/2008, -16/+247Kudos to the kid for speaking up ... twice. No matter which side of the political fence you are on, these types of checks and balances are what make our society great. (also, his application essays to college will be a lot stronger than anything I ever had to write about during my high school years....)
- inactive, on 04/28/2008, -12/+204Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. - 1984
/obligatory - quakerorts, on 04/28/2008, -13/+178The victors write the history. This is one reason they are constantly introducing new text books. Whoever is in charge wants to slant things in their favor.
- PeppermintPig, on 04/28/2008, -6/+116There is all kinds of slant. Both conservative and socialist versions of history intermeshed, with a common pro-state thread. Even then, they leave out all the interesting bits that make sense and humanize the god-like figures of our past.
Did you know: Churchill was a fan of Mussolini, once referring to him as "the greatest living legislator"?? I wonder if they teach that in your textbooks.
/The More You Know! - dbs1221, on 04/28/2008, -7/+85Why do textbooks never talk about how Susan B Anthony was a prominent socialist or how Helen Keller is praised in textbooks but they never talk about how she was attacked by the government for her opposition to war and her strong socialist views.
Or how textbooks rarely talk about the dozens of military interventions and campaigns over the last century in south and central America. - inactive, on 04/28/2008, -21/+93reality has a well known liberal bias
- RansomHoldiay, on 04/28/2008, -2/+70my econ. teacher fits the bill of the teacher mentioned in the beginning of the article. she honestly and truly believes deep down that al-quaeda has infiltrated the central florida school system and is plotting to kill us. she brazenly talks about how she will throw her body infront of his bullets. and gives us essays like "if al qaeda came through the door right now and told you to burn the flag or die, what would you do?"
- jlhoben, on 04/28/2008, -9/+69What do you expect in a country where "liberal" has become a dirty word?
- inactive, on 04/28/2008, -2/+59If this is a public school, she should get the boot. I could ALMOST see that from a poli sci, or history teacher, but economics? That's no place for patriotic drum-beating.
- Falldog, on 04/28/2008, -6/+60It must suck to be as intelligent as this kid and still stuck in the ***** hole that is the American public school system. At the very least he should be graduating soon and hopefully will be able to move onto better things.
- azAZ09, on 04/28/2008, -1/+54Actually, money is the reason. Pushing the old versions into obsolescence artificially resurects the demand for the same stale material. That is why the college text you purchase usually says umteenth edition, and other than pagination and graphics are the only difference from as last years umteenth (-1) edition. Publishers can continue to sell the old stal editions of material.
- mbonzo531, on 04/28/2008, -5/+58When I read this title I thought, yea I have an American Government book that is completely biased.... Surprise! Same book.
I got into an argument with my teacher after I decided to read a couple chapter because it contains A LOT of opinions. The conservative opinion in the article is one of many, but there were some liberal opinions in there as well. Anyway, the book sucks, I don't read it anymore, and I just get all my info off wikipedia and I have an A in that class. Its too bad that teachers discredit wikipedia (an encyclopedia of thousands of sources which diminishes bias) but openly embrass books (which have only a few sources and are constantly being proven biased). Anyone can write a book. - unpolloloco, on 04/28/2008, -12/+62News Flash: THERE IS NO WAY TO MAKE A COMPLETELY UNBIASED TEXTBOOK
- meloogal, on 04/28/2008, -6/+55Textbooks are always, always written with an agenda--I think you'd be hard-pressed to find one without a bias one way or the other. This sounds more like irresponsible teaching than anything else.
- inactive, on 04/28/2008, -12/+58It's okay everyone, Jimmy's just bitter because no textbook has yet acknowledged Ronald Reagan as the One True Son of God.
- chaosdude78, on 04/28/2008, -2/+47This is the exact reason that I admired my 10th grade History teacher. The first week of school he drilled it into his students heads that traditional American history teaching is biased towards the American view at the very least, or at worst, a pro-religion view. The district forced him to hand out a textbook but he made it clear that he himself had only read the first chapter and decided that it was too biased for anyone to be taught from. The remainder of the year, he taught a pretty much no-bs version of the curriculum.
- inactive, on 04/28/2008, -2/+45I'd say the problem is people like you who refute mountains of evidence to claim that evolution is, in fact, not proven.
- whatthefu, on 04/28/2008, -7/+49Whoa. I had this same textbook and I remembered seeing some fishy statements in regards to modern history, but I didn't think much of it at the time. Damn.
- Terr01, on 04/28/2008, -3/+42And Rosa Parks? She was "just some lady who finally had had enough".
Inspiring, but insipid, given that she was hardly just some jane-doe off the street but had actually worked for civil rights organizations... - BlueSkyfish, on 04/28/2008, -6/+44Science textbooks that teach evolution, the big bang, the fact that the Earth is more than 6000 years old, and global warming don't count as liberal bias.
- eir574, on 04/28/2008, -3/+41So, do you support a double standard? A liberal bias is bad, but a conservative bias is good?
- lhbaker, on 04/28/2008, -9/+46Jesus was a Liberal. Please prove me wrong.
- MattNF, on 04/28/2008, -3/+40My Marine Science book had an anti-evolution bias section in it. Right before the section about evolution, they had a 2-page story about the "controversy" of evolution and how it's constantly being debated by scientists about it's validity. It claimed many scientists weren't sure about evolution. It even included the old "the eye is too complex and unexplainable by evolution etc" argument.
Good thing I got out of that class. - lhbaker, on 04/28/2008, -13/+48Jesus was a Liberal.
- consonance, on 04/28/2008, -3/+37Jesus owned a shotgun and was the NRA's first member. You can't argue with that UNLESS YOU HATE JESUS AND BY EXTENSION AMERICA AS WELL.
- TGMD, on 04/28/2008, -11/+45That really is ridiculous but I remember having a history book with an insane liberal bias. Authors/editors of these books will at times present their bias, liberal or conservative THEY BOTH DO IT.
- Lutremi, on 04/28/2008, -1/+34Evolution is both a fact and a theory.
Please refer to:http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.htm ... - elipabst, on 04/28/2008, -2/+34STAY THE COURSE JIMMY! STAY THE COURSE!
- fixty, on 04/28/2008, -0/+32Reminds me of a book I read called "Lies My Teacher Told Me" that contrasted a dozen high school history books accounts of famous events/persons in history. The author found that often the accounts given were wildly inconsistent between the texts: http://www.uvm.edu/~jloewen/liesmyteachertoldme.ph ...
- Terr01, on 04/28/2008, -4/+34Zorn? You mean, Zinn?
IMO Zinn's book definitely has a liberal streak.
(Unlike some, I do not find that synonymous with "inaccurate".) - HenvY, on 04/28/2008, -5/+35+RATM
- Dumbledorito, on 04/28/2008, -3/+30The problem with textbooks is places like Texas call the shots. They are some of the biggest purchasers of public school textbooks, so they get to review the hell out of them and object to anything that they think is too "liberal" or "revisionist" for whatever reason, especially history and science texts.
Historians dislike this because often you can't call a spade a spade. Some of our worst presidents (and I'm talking about ones long dead like Taft) can't be referred to negatively because that's "un-american." It's lunacy, and we're passing it on to the rest of the nation. - Zarokima, on 04/28/2008, -1/+27You're correct for this case, but I would agree with you more if the majority of students weren't taking the falsehoods as fact.
- Zarokima, on 04/28/2008, -12/+37The worst part is that so many students actually believe that ***** (the stuff he pointed out and valiantly fought against).
- fuzzmeister, on 04/28/2008, -9/+33Now all we need is a Rage Against the Machine quote, a link to a truther video, and a Ron Paul endorsement to make this a true Digg comment thread.
- gelato822, on 04/28/2008, -5/+29This kid has a published article and will probably head to an Ivy League School. What do you have to show for? A buried comment?
- inactive, on 04/28/2008, -2/+26"And that, kids, is how Reagan defeated the evil empire."
- Kerrigore, on 04/28/2008, -10/+33Of course most textbooks are liberal; reality has a well-known liberal bias.
- solidus636, on 04/28/2008, -3/+26Yeah, I guess an imaginary being in the sky and the earth being 6000 years old is as equally unproven as the big bang, huh?
- inactive, on 04/28/2008, -4/+26You're apparently new here. Jimmyspaza is digg's biggest troll - he has never, in his entire history here, ever had anything productive to contribute. Most of us have given up on him long ago, in response to his consistent refusal to acknowledge any point of view that he didn't make up himself.
- inactive, on 04/28/2008, -1/+22Go away, Jimmy. You have absolutely nothing useful to contribute here, or anywhere, honestly, you ***** king of trolls. The only reason there's "no evidence" is because ***** like you just LOVE to say "well that doesn't count" whenever anyone tries to bring up real evidence. How the ***** is anyone supposed to compete with "Oh, it just doesn't count"?
- LBobRife, on 04/28/2008, -0/+21Off topic, but I would burn the flag. The issue as she puts it is not an issue of legality of flag burning, as even if it was illegal it would be considered to have been done "under duress" and therefore you are not responsible for the crime.
- esfisher, on 04/28/2008, -0/+20Since it's the econ teacher, the correct answer would be: "The opportunity cost of burning the flag to save my life is dying to defend some piece of cloth made in China."
- yellowfish04, on 04/28/2008, -0/+20hell yeah I'd burn the flag in a heart beat, jesus. I'm not getting shot over a piece of fabric cheaply cobbled together in China in some sweatshop.
- Balath, on 04/28/2008, -0/+20I'd tell the terrorists that the teacher is a fed that's probably already called for backup.
Hell, I'd get some points with them, possibly live, and ensure that I got a better teacher if I made it through. I win all around. - inactive, on 04/28/2008, -20/+40jimmyspaza the dumbest poster on digg
- onestrawplz, on 04/28/2008, -1/+20but there's no need to be so blatant about it
- inactive, on 04/28/2008, -2/+21hahahah you believe that god created you... hahahahha
- sonofblacula, on 04/28/2008, -0/+19My science teacher told us, and I quote, "the textbook companies can ***** themselves", as he proceeded to give us our physics I textbook in the form of a giant word document he wrote himself. All we had to do was print.
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