If that happens, Mississippi will ban science from being taught.
AP American History is banned in Oklahoma because it "is too unpatriotic" and that it teaches students to "not think America is the best country on earth." Yeah. The federal government DOES need some control over the education. They should have the ability to block this ban from happening. "States play a bigger role in our education." That'd be great, but I really don't trust any state in the South to do that. Please note, common core is up to the state to opt in. Its not something that is required. States can completely ignore it, or even stop teaching it if they want. States already have a large amount of local control. For example, Texas is one of the last remaining common core holdouts. Texas textbooks literally downplay and are dismissive to slavery. In Texas, you are required to teach your students that slavery wasn't why the south seceded. They require biased and politicized info to be taught. Let's take a look at more of the inaccuracies found in the current Texas textbooks:
If local control means teaching this bull**** to students, no way in hell would I or any sane person favor more local control.
- A number of government and world history textbooks exaggerate Judeo-Christian influence on the nation’s founding and Western political tradition.
- Two government textbooks include misleading information that undermines the Constitutional concept of the separation of church and state.
- Several world history and world geography textbooks include biased statements that inappropriately portray Islam and Muslims negatively.
- All of the world geography textbooks inaccurately downplay the role that conquest played in the spread of Christianity.
- Several world geography and history textbooks suffer from an incomplete – and often inaccurate – account of religions other than Christianity.
- Coverage of key Christian concepts and historical events are lacking in a few textbooks, often due to the assumption that all students are Christians and already familiar with Christian events and doctrine.
- A few government and U.S. history textbooks suffer from an uncritical celebration of the free enterprise system, both by ignoring legitimate problems that exist in capitalism and failing to include coverage of government’s role in the U.S. economic system.
- One government textbook flirts with contemporary Tea Party ideology, particularly regarding the inclusion of anti-taxation and anti-regulation arguments.
- One world history textbook includes outdated – and possibly offensive – anthropological categories and racial terminology in describing African civilization.
- A number of U.S. history textbooks evidence a general lack of attention to Native American peoples and culture and occasionally include biased or misleading information.
- One government textbook … includes a biased – verging on offensive – treatment of affirmative action.
- Most U.S. history textbooks do a poor job of covering the history of LGBT citizens in discussions of efforts to achieve civil rights in this country.
- Elements of the Texas curriculum standards give undue legitimacy to neo-Confederate arguments about “states’ rights” and the legacy of slavery in the South. While most publishers avoid problems with these issues, passages in a few U.S. history and government textbooks give a nod to these misleading arguments.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...-report-finds/
Note: The article says it's proposed. It actually was approved, and is in use right now.