I recently worked with a lot of blind people and also worked with someone in the deaf-blind community. She was an incredibly inspiring person. This is just dumb.

Cha

(297,334 posts)

4. They scared purveyors of FAKE NEWS.. I feel for those Texans

Reply to Vidal (Original post)

Sat Sep 15, 2018, 04:42 PM

Sep 2018

who are into REALITY.

oasis

(49,393 posts)

8. Not to worry, Beto will make Texas history by erasing Ted Cruz.

Reply to Cha (Reply #4)

Sat Sep 15, 2018, 04:51 PM

Sep 2018

Riding the crest of the Blue Wave🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

aloha Cha

Cha

(297,334 posts)

11. I thought of Beto and all our Cyber

Reply to oasis (Reply #8)

Sat Sep 15, 2018, 05:31 PM

Sep 2018

buds in Texas fighting for Reality!

Aloha, oasis

Sneederbunk

(14,292 posts)

5. Some of the Texas vs Oklahoma scores are missing too.

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Sat Sep 15, 2018, 04:48 PM

Sep 2018

Skidmore

(37,364 posts)

6. Board of Ed needs some

Reply to Vidal (Original post)

Sat Sep 15, 2018, 04:49 PM

Sep 2018

liberals applying for it.

Cha

(297,334 posts)

14. UNBELIEVABLE#HillaryClinton was First Lady, senator, Secretary of State, 1st woman nominee of a..

Reply to Skidmore (Reply #6)

Sat Sep 15, 2018, 10:58 PM

Sep 2018

Link to tweet

Yes, Reality based people/Liberals need to run for the Board of Education in Texas.

At least Hillary is in good company with Helen Keller and so is Helen Keller.

Skidmore

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

7. What? Are you serious?

Reply to Vidal (Original post)

Sat Sep 15, 2018, 04:51 PM

Sep 2018

This is so effed up. I can kind of understand why the right-wing nutcases would want to eliminate Hillary, although I think it's pointless, but why Helen Keller?

What is wrong with these people?

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)

9. Will never work, plus she is President Clinton's wife and a former First Lady

Reply to Vidal (Original post)

Sat Sep 15, 2018, 04:57 PM

Sep 2018

among many other good things. Kinda reminds me from the history books wherein Hilter had the books burned.

These people are educated? Do they believe in education wherein you must hide, erase, omit facts? Some people do not believe that the holocaust happened.

SICK.

suffragette

(12,232 posts)

10. Shaping a new generation's views. They kept Billy Graham.

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Sat Sep 15, 2018, 05:08 PM

Sep 2018

Speaks volumes that they believe military better represents “the concept of citizenship” than Keller. This purposefully minimizes the fact that engaged and activist citizens can effect change. Keller inspired countless people, including those with disabilities and those without, to advocate for disability rights and full participation in society.
It seems they do not want to give such an example the acknowledgment and influence it is due.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2018/09/14/history-curriculum-texas-remembers-alamo-forgets-hillary-clinton-helen-keller

The 15-member work group came up with a rubric for grading every historical figure to rank who is "essential" to learn and who isn't. The formula asked questions like, "Did the person trigger a watershed change"; "Was the person from an underrepresented group"; and "Will their impact stand the test of time?"

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Neither Poth nor Matthews said she was in the small group that made the decisions about Clinton and Keller. In a note next to the deletion from the third-grade social studies curriculum in which Keller was included in a lesson about "the characteristics of good citizenship," the work group wrote, "Helen Keller does not best represent the concept of citizenship. Military and first responders are best represented."