Visit The Thomas Jefferson Movement at: http://www.thomasjeffersonmovement.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network
Note: We saw this letter from State Representative Richard Raymond of Laredo and thought we'd share it, in light of the recent controversial news coming out of our State Board of Education.
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Dear Member,
Less than a week ago, we started the Thomas Jefferson Movement to provide a base of organization for those among us who were upset by the actions being taken by the State Board of Education in Texas. Already there are hundreds who have joined us in this cause.We're doing everything we can to carry the message across the social media airwaves on this critical matter and stopping the SBOE from rewriting the proud history of Texas, the United States of America and, for that matter, the planet on which we live.
Shortly after setting up the TJM Ning Network site, we also set up a Facebook page, a Twitter account and we've already been active on YouTube, FriendFeed, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Tumblr, Ping.fm, Google Buzz and a number of other social networking sites.
As a member of the Thomas Jefferson Movement you've shown an interest in taking action to stop the SBOE. So we're asking you to help us do a few key things to help our movement rapidly grow into a force that can stop them their tracks:
1. Invite your friends to join the Thomas Jefferson Movement using your email lists and social networks. Please also include a photo of yourself on your account.
2. Contribute content in the form of blog posts, newsclippings, videos, forum discussions and any other communications you feel will contribute to the dialog. We promise we'll publish them quickly. All content is welcome unless it is profane, hateful or defamatory. We welcome opposing points of view as long as the discussion remains civil.
3. Make a financial commitment to our general purpose Political Action Committee, the Thomas Jefferson Movement. Every dollar counts, so please do what you can to help. I have committed my own resources to this effort and will be speaking with my colleagues and others about helping as well.
Thank you again for being an important part of the Thomas Jefferson Movement. Together we can maintain our proud history in our school textbooks and provide the children of Texas and the nation a chance for the kind of education they deserve.
Richard Peña Raymond
Texas State Representative
2 comments:
My son is already in college and anyone who sends their kids to Texas public schools - including WISD - is asking for stupid kids.
All future employers simply need to ask high school graduates in 2020 and beyond one simple question: "Who is Thomas Jefferson? If they don't know the answer, don't hire them. That's what i plan to do.
If the Texas SBOE wants to produce a generation of Wal-Mart shoppers and mindless soldiers, let them do it.
The future job market will certainly make the current Texas SBOE look like fools. Intelligent people can see it now.
If I had children in school, I’d pull them out and, no matter what, I’d Home School them. The government school system has been in decline for the last two decades and has now reached the tipping point.
The far right fringe has always had a fear of Jefferson. Free thinkers just scare the Hell out of ‘em. Come to think about it, the left hasn’t been all that kind to ole Thomas either, remember Sally Hemmings?
What is absurd is the fact that the members SBOE must have been educated with real history books or how would they know what is “Right” or “Wrong”? Twenty years into the future what will be their basis for these decisions; it boggles the mind.
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