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liberal N proud

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 03:14 PM Feb 2015

Oklahoma kids don't need no history...

Oklahoma Lawmakers Vote Overwhelmingly To Ban Advanced Placement U.S. History

An Oklahoma legislative committee overwhelmingly voted to ban Advanced Placement U.S. History class, persuaded by the argument that it only teaches students “what is bad about America.” Other lawmakers are seeking a court ruling that would effectively prohibit the teaching of all AP courses in public schools.

Oklahoma Rep. Dan Fisher (R) has introduced “emergency” legislation “prohibiting the expenditure of funds on the Advanced Placement United States History course.” Fisher is part of a group called the “Black Robe Regiment” which argues “the church and God himself has been under assault, marginalized, and diminished by the progressives and secularists.” The group attacks the “false wall of separation of church and state.” The Black Robe Regiment claims that a “growing tide of special interest groups indoctrinating our youth at the exclusion of the Christian perspective.”

http://thinkprogress.org/education/2015/02/17/3623683/oklahoma-lawmakers-vote-overwhleming-ban-advanced-placement-history-class/

Edmund Burke: “Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
Maybe that was something my teacher told me in school?


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Oklahoma kids don't need no history... (Original Post) liberal N proud Feb 2015 OP
Old Joke Lithos Feb 2015 #1

Lithos

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1. Old Joke
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 03:29 PM
Feb 2015

The only thing which keeps Texas from floating off into the Gulf of Mexico is that Oklahoma sucks so hard!

Guys like these are doing their best to turn it from a inter-state rivalry joke to being reality.


(My apologies to the DU members in Oklahoma fighting the good fight! - Keep it up!)

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