I am pleased to write that the creationist and generally anti-reality Don McLeroy has lost his bid for re-election<\/a> to the Texas State Board of Education!<\/p> Yay!<\/p> The man who ousted him is Thomas Ratliff, who is — gasp! — an actual educator who has vowed to try to remove the politicization of the board and also to actually – gasp again! — listen to educators when it comes to, y’know, educational topics. You may remember McLeroy is the goofball who infamously said<\/a>, \"Someone has to stand up to the experts!\"<\/p> However, mitigating the good news somewhat are some things to consider:<\/p> 1) McLeroy is still on the BoE for the next seven months before his term runs out. He can do a vast amount of damage to Texas schoolchildren’s education in that time. <\/p> 2) Ratliff only won by a very narrow margin, meaning a whole lot of Texas citizens either didn’t know about McLeroy’s maniacal attempts<\/a> at derailing the Lone Star State’s educational system, didn’t care, or actually supported him.<\/p> 3) McLeroy and his crew of revisionist creationists have already done so much damage that it cannot be easily repaired. There is a cycle to the way standards and such are reviewed and updated in Texas, so it could be years before things are straightened out, if at all.<\/p> Still, this is good news, and so I won’t use the \"Texas: Doomed\"<\/a> graphic. Instead, I’ll remind you not to rest:<\/p> <\/p>
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