Home Schooling seems more and more attractive an option every day.

Why does someone's sexual orientation even have to come into play? I mean, if the person was a great inventor or astronaut or whatever, who cares who he bangs when he goes home at night?

Exactly. What is the point of teaching students that Plato was gay if they have no idea who he was?

Before anyone else says it, here it is:

"Mickey Mouse's dog is gay?" - Jessice Tate

The GOP is off-base there. Their reply should be to introduce a bill to put up an initiative changing the Constitution to ban ALL such educrap from the Legislature.

The process of history rolling along, getting recorded as it actually happens, is all that should go into history textbooks, or any book used to teach kids about the past.

What Army of Mom said.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm tired, tired, tired of the quota-system for inclusion in a textbook: if you fit certain profiles, even if what you did is fairly minor, you're in, just to "balance" others. And some important people are left out because they're "too majority."

I never had a problem learning science as a chick even though there weren't that many chick-scientists. If I had insisted that I learn only about people who were "like" me, I would have been in trouble. (And if I had insisted they be Irish-American, right-handed, myopic chick scientists, I would have been in even more trouble.)

And, once we've waded through the various tokens, is there actually any time left for learning, you know, real history? Like what happened and stuff?

I'd rather learn history as a narrative (story-like) than a bunch of unconnected people who did stuff and happened to be gay or East Indian or female or have six fingers or something.

Dawg: Word.

BTW, everybody got the Zelda reference, right?

Yeah, Ricki. Next up is queer math.

Aw crap, I can't even do straight math...

What Army of Mom said.

Yeah, ricki, I always want to yell at these retards: "if role models are so damn important, why do Asians do so well at science and math invented and developed by white males?"

Once it's established that Aristotle was Gay it will be acknowledged that his Inherent Creativity was because of his Gayness which enabled him to Discover Math - and also that he Suffered for his Art by Ignorant People who didn't understand Math, and he was Oppressed because he was Gay. Soon nobody will take Math except Girls and the downfall of the West will continue.

"queer math"????

oh, my, the probably-insensitive jokes just write themselves...

(Seriously? Math is fargin' math. Science is frikken' science*. Like the old blues musician said, "the guitar don't care what color your hand is."

*I'm gonna leave social sciences and humanities out of the picture because I think the current theorizing has screwed them beyond all comprehension.)

and Ken - I'm gonna have to plead ignorance on the Zelda question. The only Zeldas with which I am familiar are Mrs. Fitzgerald who-went-crazy and the unseen princess that Link is supposed to rescue.

"Probably" insensitive? You underestimate me.

And because she was polite enough to ask, Ricki has already received the answer by email.

OooooOOOOOOhhh...

okay, I get it now. Thanks. (A little bit outside of my frame of reference, I guess.)

"A little bit outside of my frame of reference"

Was that a shot at my geezerdom?

More like a broadside, I'd reckon.

Soylent Green is old too, but he still didn't get the reference.

Is electricity gay, bi or hetero?

I'm guessing bi. AC/DC, you know.

No, more a reference to having worrywart parents who restricted my childhood tv viewing to PBS, including the scary scary "Electric Company," which probably had a worse scarring effect on my psyche than most network television of that era.

The Zelda reference is a mystery to me, too. Not even a Yahoo search helped.

The elusive Zelda is very subtly revealed in "Gay Math"

Ah, I had to go back a post to catch the reference.

Oh, that Zelda! Man, what a disappointment! I always liked her on Dobie Gillis, except I thought she was too good for him.

She sure ain't this Zelda.

Why are Democrats and liberals soooooooo obsessed with what people do with their genitals?