Jun 26 2010
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“ I actually had a call from Norwegian International Radio, and I asked them why they were so interested. His response was this is very foreign to us because we have appointed experts who deal with this and they tell our students what they’re going to learn and it never becomes political. And I said well yes, when you have a representative body it can become very political and controversial because you’re giving the electorate a voice as opposed to having certain people tell the rest of the country what they’re going to believe — like in a pre-Holocaust Germany… . Basically what they’re talking about is an appointed oligarchy of experts where the electorate has no voice.
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Texas State Board of Education member Cynthia Dunbar, arguing it is better for bonehead partisans with zero education credentials to set public school curriculum standards because asking teachers and scholars for input would be like what the Nazis did in Germany during the 1930s. (via TFN) (via tart-tart)
By the use of Godwin’s Law I declare the Cynthia Dunbar the looser in that debate.
