In 21st century, with all the accumulated knowledge and info thus far, as we humans should be moving towards higher intellectual and social awareness some people are proving that you can't reason with stupid... Texas somehow keeps leading in crazy/stupid. Here's paragraph from the article citing GOP of Texas declaring "War on critical thinking"!
There is not enough facepalm to cover this shit!
In other words, it’s just an average week down there in Crazy Town. And that lends a certain context to a tidbit brought to national attention last week by Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.” Meaning a plank from the 2012 platform of the Republican Party of Texas which, astonishingly enough, reads as follows: “We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.”
