Texas Schools Board Rewrites US History∞
An extraordinarily scary article about how the Texas educational curriculum is being hijacked by conservative religious fundamentalists. This is important, because Texas buys enough textbooks that the vast majority of textbooks printed in the United States cater to their curriculum.
Some choice edits:
- The right to bear arms is now being heralded as an “important element of a democratic society.”
- The slave trade is now referred to as the “Atlantic triangular trade.”
- Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist witch-hunt is suggested to have been justified.
- “Minimal government intrusion and taxation” is a requirement for economic prosperity.
The problem with making all these changes to the curriculum is that then you’re teaching your kids things that are wrong.
One of the major proponents of the new curriculum, Cynthia Dunbar, had this to say:
I think it is important to present a historically accurate viewpoint to students
Clearly, you don’t.
