Salon.com > hippies http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 14:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 School textbook: Hippies were rude, didn’t bathe, worshipped Satan http://www.salon.com/2013/03/11/high_school_history_book_hippies_were_rude_didn%e2%80%99t_bathe_worshipped_satan/ http://www.salon.com/2013/03/11/high_school_history_book_hippies_were_rude_didn%e2%80%99t_bathe_worshipped_satan/#comments Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:46:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13225797 Here's what 8th graders in Louisiana know, for sure, about the 1960s rabble-rousers better known as hippies (emphasis mine):

They went to Canada or European countries to escape being drafted into military service.

They went without bathing, wore dirty, ragged, unconventional clothing, and deliberately broke all codes of politeness or manners. Rock music played an important part in the hippie movement and had great influence over the hippies. Many of the rock musicians they followed belonged to Eastern religious cults or practiced Satan worship.

How do they know it? Because their history textbook -- "America: Land I Love" -- told them so!

Dirty hippie-gate is just one of many reasons the quality of the Louisiana school system's voucher program has been called into question. Other schools involved in the program have taught students that dragons are real and that, except for the whole owning human beings as property thing, slave owners were actually pretty nice guys.

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