by Low D Sat Mar 13, 2010 4:26 pm
philipchevron wrote:I couldn't help noticing that in the proposed conservative amendments to Texas school books [which would have a national effect: publishers default to Texas prescription because they sell more books in the state than anywhere else], alongside all the propaganda about God and Guns and Dinosaurs is the proposal to add "country and western" to America's indigenuous achievements. Only the American Right could be so insecure about Country's part in American culture that they feel it must be spelled out. Mind you, if I was on a staple diet of Pouty McHunk's albums from Country music radio, I might begin to feel insecure about "country and western" too.
Yeah, but i'll bet you a fiver they don't mention Cash's "Man In Black" in that part of the textbooks if it happens.
Jello Biafra had a good talk about the schoolbook publishing industry in the US, and that was 20 years ago so I imagine - after the merger wave of the 1980s continued through the 90s - that it is only worse. But even i high school in what - 1988-90? - in Toronto, Canada, I had a biology teacher who handed us out a photocopy of Genisis at the beginning of our section on the theory of evolution. He was very curt, explaining that he was required to include this in the curriculum, it wouldn't be on the exam, and talk to him later if you had any questions.
[quote="philipchevron"]
I couldn't help noticing that in the proposed conservative amendments to Texas school books [which would have a national effect: publishers default to Texas prescription because they sell more books in the state than anywhere else], alongside all the propaganda about God and Guns and Dinosaurs is the proposal to add "country and western" to America's indigenuous achievements. Only the American Right could be so insecure about Country's part in American culture that they feel it must be spelled out. Mind you, if I was on a staple diet of Pouty McHunk's albums from Country music radio, I might begin to feel insecure about "country and western" too.[/quote]
Yeah, but i'll bet you a fiver they don't mention Cash's "Man In Black" in that part of the textbooks if it happens.
Jello Biafra had a good talk about the schoolbook publishing industry in the US, and that was 20 years ago so I imagine - after the merger wave of the 1980s continued through the 90s - that it is only worse. But even i high school in what - 1988-90? - in Toronto, Canada, I had a biology teacher who handed us out a photocopy of Genisis at the beginning of our section on the theory of evolution. He was very curt, explaining that he was required to include this in the curriculum, it wouldn't be on the exam, and talk to him later if you had any questions.
