This is interesting. Since Texas has such a large population, they tend to have a lot of control over the textbooks used in Texas schools. Do we know if this is something produced in the school district or is it used statewide?
We’ve all heard this lecture before, but I’m going to give it again. As long as the NEA and the political left control our schools, they cease to be institutions of learning and become indoctrination centers in liberal philosophy. If we want education to be about learning and not indoctrination, we have to pay attention and get control of the schools away from the leftists. It’s that simple.
However, if we all shrug our shoulders and say “what can I do? They aren’t going to listen to me” then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. We know that freedom isn’t free, but neither is a free society. When we let the politicians take an inch, the next time they’ll take a yard and the time after that, they’ll give us ObamaCare!!
Each of us has a voice and we have to use it while we still can.
Texas ia, has been for decade, the testing ground for textbooks. If they fly there, they get released across the country.
This is much worse than you think...
Decades ago, when I was politically active, my organization was umbrellaed with others in my state and across the country - Mel & Norma Gable were vital in our fight against gov’t takeover of our schools and our homes.
I remember one history book, for example, published and ‘tested’ in Texas, the one one short. derogatory paragraph on George Washington and 5 1/2 pages of text and photos of - Marilyn Monroe. (This was the early 1980’s.)
Mel and Norma are gone now, but Mel left a method to use for detecting these anti-Americam rewrites/distortions;
“BEST STRATEGY
Texas is the most conservative big state that state-approves textbooks. Texas has national leverage on publishers. Texas’ all-elected State Board of Education responds more to citizens. To impact Texas, Mel left in place a long institutional past, unusually experienced reviewers, and highly specific goals.
“Different people reviewing different textbooks different years tend to draw less precise comparisons and reinvent the wheel. Mel left in place a very stable review staff, active each year for decades, to write consistent, increasingly in-depth reviews over repeated Texas textbook adoption cycles.”
This is where you go for guidance in combatting this insidious undermining of our children, our families, our traditions and our Constitutin.
http://www.textbookreviews.org/index.html?content=nl_05_05.htm
To read about this dedicated couple and what they achieved -Question is, who is now carrying on this crucial oversight? Calls and emails to our reps doens't even scratch the srface - it's only the start. Where now are people like el and Norma?