{"id":1540,"date":"2013-02-23T20:31:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T00:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2013-02-23T20:31:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T00:31:45","slug":"democratic-society-or-constitutional-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=1540","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Society or Constitutional Republic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which do we live in? Apparently, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tea.state.tx.us\/WorkArea\/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&#038;ItemID=2147485020&#038;libID=2147485019\" target=\"_blank\">Texas state standards<\/a> for social studies content taught in the classroom, or TEKS, we no longer live in a democratic society. It&#8217;s a constitutional republic. The word &#8220;democratic&#8221; has been scrubbed from much of the TEKS, to be replaced by the word &#8220;republic.&#8221; The partisanship behind this change is obvious. And while students still need to &#8220;analyze and evaluate the validity of&#8230; information&#8230; for bias, propaganda, point of view, and frame of reference&#8221;, every previous mention of &#8220;propaganda&#8221; has been struck from the TEKS. Are we to apply the study of propaganda to the TEKS themselves, then?<\/p>\n<p>Given that the TEKS ask that we study the &#8220;leadership&#8221; of Nixon and Reagan and only the impeachment of Clinton, I think there are grounds to view the TEKS as a platform for right-wing propaganda. In them, America was never imperialistic and McCarthy was spot on in his witch-hunt&#8230; even though Americans previously decried our imperialistic adventures and the Venona documents show that McCarthy was dead wrong about most of his charges.<\/p>\n<p>My biggest question is if I have to teach that we have always been at war with Eastasia or that we have always been at war with Eurasia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which do we live in? Apparently, according to the Texas state standards for social studies content taught in the classroom, or TEKS, we no longer live in a democratic society. It&#8217;s a constitutional republic. The word &#8220;democratic&#8221; has been scrubbed from much of the TEKS, to be replaced by the word &#8220;republic.&#8221; The partisanship behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}