The Texas Board of Education approved a curriculum that will change history, social studies and economics textbooks. The man in charge of pushing this new textbook bill through is Don McLeroy. Some people wonder what expertise McLeroy has to change history. Hes not a Historian, an Economist, or a teacher, hes a dentist in training (thats right A DENTIST). McLeroy claims that the Texas curriculum had been "unfairly skewed to the left" and that he wants to bring it back into balance. Conservative balance that is! Some of the new textbooks will include:
1. The words of Jefferson Davis, President of the confederacy during the civil war, be considered right along with President Lincoln.
2. The new curriculum plays down the role of Thomas Jefferson among the founding fathers, questions the separation of church and state, and claims that the U.S. government was infiltrated by Communists during the Cold War
3. The new textbook stresses the superiority of American capitalism (you know the superiority that says its okay for the top 1% to have 90% of the countrys profit.)
4. They also included a plank to ensure that students learn about the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s, including Phyllis Schlafly, the Contract With America, the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority and the National Rifle Association.
5. High school students will learn about leading conservative groups from the 1980s and 1990s but not about liberal or minority rights groups.
6. Board members also rejected requiring history teachers and textbooks to provide coverage on the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy and new Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, while the late President Ronald Reagan was elevated to more prominent coverage.
7. Civil Rights Movement will be downplayed and all the credit will be given to the Republicans because they signed the bill for equal rights.
Thats just a handful of what is going to be changed. These new textbooks are meant for Texans students but what happens in Texas definitely does NOT stay in Texas. Texas has an estimated 4.8 million students that will be studying the revised curriculum over the next decade and Because the Texas textbook market is so large, books assigned to the state's 4.8 million students often rocket to the top of the market, decreasing costs for other school districts and leading them to buy the same materials. So in a few years your children will be reading these books. Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education, said school officials should keep politics out of curriculum debates stating, "We do a disservice to children when we shield them from the truth, just because some people think it is painful or doesn't fit with their particular views. They are going overboard, they are not experts, they are not historians, she states. Changing history is only one of the first steps to Social Dictatorship. They are rewriting history, not only of Texas but of the United States and the world.
WHAT CAN I IDO:
1. Sign NAACP petition to stop these textbooks for reaching into other states at
2. Call your local elected officials urging them not to allow Texas new textbooks into the school systems
3. Call Texas officials and Shame them for thinking this was a good idea
4. Found out what dentist office Don McLeroy is working at, get your teeth done, AND NEVER PAY!
*disclaimer My suggestions are better than Bp's
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