California has a reputation for being the land of nuts and fruitcakes. I've always leaned toward the side of tolerance until two days ago. There was a blurb in the Sacramento Bee about a bill passed by the state assembly that would limit the size of any textbook used in any California school to fewer than 200 pages in length, because students learn better from shorter texts, and anyway, a lot of information is online nowadays.
Jackie Goldberg, Assembly Education Committee Chairperson, wrote Assembly Bill 756, which passed with a vote of 42 to 33. The Bee editorialized with a stinging satire (free login required.)
Add this to the one about criminalizing the declawing of cats and one could get the impression that there's nothing bigger to worry about in this great state! I'm so disgusted I could spit nails!
