Texans are Dumber than A Box of Rocks - New Poll Proves It!

Sometimes it is easy to forget how politicized our education system here in Texas is. Case in point, our textbooks. Since Texas is the largest buyer of textbooks, many publishers make the business decision to abide by whatever standards Texas sets. That means material in Texas textbooks is hotly contested. Specifically, the right wing and fundamentalists try to push their religious agenda into every page of school books here in Texas.

The end result of this politicization is an electorate that gets progressively dumber and dumber. If I were a conspiracy theorist I would point out that this is a long term strategy to create a nation of sheep who can be easily controlled by a fascist government. Bahhhh!

Meanwhile, the anti-science bent in Texas school texts has produced this disturbing result:

• 51% believe, “Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals.”

• 38% believe, “God created human beings pretty much in their present form about 10,000 years ago.”

• 30% believe, “Humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time.” Another 30 percent said they “don’t know” whether the statement is true.

This should make you scared for our future, since these same ideology laden books are used across the country to "uneducate" our children.

Meanwhile, there are a whole bunch of Texans who will never be able to compete on the world stage in science, since they believe the Flintstones is a documentary!