The Republican-controlled Texas State Board of Education is inching toward mandating that all history textbooks used in public schools be free from “liberal bias,” which means “removing mention of Ted Kennedy and Cesar Chavez from textbooks in favor of new entries on the National Rifle Association and Phyllis Schlafly.”
The board, which is made up of ten Republicans and five Democrats has been working on purging young minds from the infestation of liberalism for the past year.
The board has spent numerous hours hearing from members of the community on subjects such as whether labor activist Chavez and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall deserve space in history textbooks alongside founding fathers like Benjamin Franklin.
Also at issue is whether Christianity deserves more classroom time in the Lone Star State, and whether Abraham Lincoln deserves so much.
Last week, the board voted 7-6 to make some changes, so that the state standards will mandate that lessons include the causes and key organizations and individuals of the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s, including anti-feminism advocate Schlafly, the Contract with America, the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority and the National Rifle Association.
It wasn’t clear which grades would be affected.
In a written statement, the measure’s sponsor, board member Don McLeroy, explained why he believes the current textbooks are unacceptable and needed revising.
“These standards are rife with leftist political periods and events: the populists, the progressives, the New Deal and the Great Society,” McLeroy wrote. “Including material about the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s provides some political balance to the document.”
McLeroy also succeeded in making changes to how Sen. Joseph McCarthy will be taught, painting the man – whose use of Congress to investigate alleged communist behavior in the 1950s has been widely repudiated – in a more favorable light.
Now before you go and brush this off by saying, “Fuck them, it’s just Texas being Texas,” keep one thing in mind…the market for school books in Texas is so big that what they demand from publishers can often effect schools in other parts of the country who would then have to use the same fucked up books, all because Texas wants more guns and Jesus and less Martin Luther King.
Sigh.
Yes, by all means, kids in Texas need MORE exposure to Phyllis Schlafly and a more favorable view of Joe McCarthy.
Holy fucking shit. Alright then, just one more reason to either not have children or to use alternative educational models rather than sending them to schools…
This is fascism. Deciding to only educate one point of view should be criminalized. If that's really what is happening. Every time textbooks are updated this debate comes along because the country swings wildly left and right and the regime that follows one swing wants to forget the previous. The swing to conservatism should be in the books. That's what happened. So should the following swing back to progressive politics.
What or who is your source for this information? If you are the direct source when, where did you hear this? Board of Ed. Meeting or Town Meeting? Who is the quote from? No way to verify this information. Seems suspicious to me.
well, i agree bush is an idiot. i also have to say that Obama is even more incompetent, corrupt and dishonest than Bush ever was, which is pretty bad. I also have to say honestly, that 'liberals' have destroyed the public school system and in the inner cities, where poor minority students mostly attend, the education they receive is TERRIBLE>
Lets get the facts straight here…Liberals indoctrinate the kids with false history and try to brainwash them into 'left-wingISM' instead of teaching them the PROPER history and learning how to read, write, spell and add….which is why they're there in the first place. The word 'GOD' and the pledge of allegience doesn't mean the 'Christian right' is trying to push religion on them. Im not a religious freak, I dont go to church, I dont have a particular religion, but I believe in God and have no problem saying it, or pledging the flag of the great country i live in. I also served in the Marines where I believe in God, country, corps… It's no big deal..I don't understand why liberals blame republicans when it's them hypocrites themselves who ruin the education system.
One more thing, these liberal acedemic types are some of the dumbest people I have ever met. I live near Princeton University and I swear to GOD, I have never seen more idiotic students in my entire life. The state college students seem a little more brighter and have more common sense.
Liberals, lets be honest..Bush was one of you guys…he wasn't a conservative..trust me.
Also…I prove all of this..Go to http://www.Idiots4Obama.Com
Case closed…
FORMER democrat.