Appalling! But you must go higher than an AZ school board to get this nonsense out of our schools. The only text books available to American schools are those that are adopted by the California and the Texas text book committees. I think TX is the only state that allows parents on their textbook committee. It’s been a long time since I looked into this, so I’m not sure that that is still true.
The reason that all text books in America are controlled by CA and TX is that those are the largest purchasing groups. The publishers cannot (or will not) publish a text book that cannot be sold to the largest number of schools possible. My daughter and son in law both work in the text book publishing business. It’s a matter of $$$.
This must be a grass roots, national effort (concentrating on CA and TX) to get this stuff out of our schools.
Texas ed board vote reflects far-right influences
AP AUSTIN, Texas — A far-right faction of the Texas State Board of Education succeeded Friday in injecting conservative ideals into social studies, history and economics lessons that will be taught to millions of students for the next decade.
Teachers in Texas will be required to cover the Judeo-Christian influences of the nation’s Founding Fathers, but not highlight the philosophical rationale for the separation of church and state. Curriculum standards also will describe the U.S. government as a “constitutional republic,” rather than “democratic,” and students will be required to study the decline in value of the U.S. dollar, including the abandonment of the gold standard.