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I wonder why Wisconsin can't have this kind of school board..
[image: Join Eagle Forum] <http://www.eagleforum.org/> *Texas Kicks Out
Liberal Bias From Textbooks* March 19, 2010 by Phyllis Schlafly "Don't Mess
with Texas" is a popular slogan in our most prosperous state. By a 10-to-5
margin, the Texas State Board of Education
(SBOE<http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index3.aspx?id=1156>)
just told liberals to stop "messing" with social studies textbooks.
For years, liberals have imposed their revisionist history on our nation's
public school students, expunging important facts and historic figures while
loading the textbooks with liberal propaganda, distortions and cliches. It's
easy to get a quick lesson in the virulent leftwing bias by checking the
index and noting how textbooks treat President Ronald
Reagan<http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/03/11/president-reagan-gets-the-shaft-in-textbooks/>
and Senator Joseph McCarthy.
When parents object to leftwing inclusions and omissions, claiming they
should have something to say about what their own children are being taught
and how their taxpayers' money is spent, they are usually vilified as "book
burners" and belittled as uneducated primitives who should allow the
"experts" to decide. The self-identified "experts" are alumni of liberal
teachers colleges and/or members of a leftwing teachers union.
In most states, the liberal education establishment enjoys total control
over the state's board of education, department of education, and curriculum
committees. Texas is different; the Texas State Board of Education is
elected, and the people (even including parents!) have a voice.
Texas is uniquely important in textbook content because the state of Texas
is the largest single purchaser of textbooks. Publishers can hardly afford
to print different versions for other states, so Texas curriculum standards
have nationwide influence.
The review of social studies curriculum (covering U.S. Government, American
History, World History and Economics) comes up every ten years, and 2010 is
one of those years. The unelected education "experts" proposed their history
revisions such as
eliminating<http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/03/11/kelly-shackelford-texas-textbook-social-studies-standards-american-history/>
Independence Day, Christopher Columbus, Thomas Edison, Daniel Boone and
Neil Armstrong, and replacing Christmas with Diwali.
After a public outcry, the SBOE responded with common-sense improvements.
Thomas Edison, the world's greatest inventor, will be again
included<http://texaslegislativeupdate.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/social-studies-battle-begins-today/>
in the narrative of American History.
Schoolchildren will no longer be misled into believing that capitalism and
the free market are dirty words and that America has an unjust economic
system. Instead, they will learn how the free-enterprise system gave our
nation and the world so much that is good for so many people.
Liberals don't like the concept of American Exceptionalism. The liberals
want to teach what's wrong with America (masquerading under the code word
"social justice") instead of what's right and successful. The SBOE
voted<http://texaslegislativeupdate.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/texas-social-studies-votes-continue-today-live-blogging/>
to include describing how American Exceptionalism is based on values that
are unique and different from those of other nations.
The SBOE specified that teaching about the Bill of Rights should include a
reference to the right to keep and bear arms. Some school curricula
pretend<http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2002/mar02/focus.shtml>
the Second Amendment doesn't exist.
Texas curriculum standards will henceforth accurately
describe<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/03/10/national/a000529S94.DTL>the
U.S. government as a "constitutional republic" rather than as a democracy.
The secularists tried to remove reference to the religious basis for the
founding of America, but that was voted down.
The Texas Board rejected the anti-Christian crowd's proposal to eliminate
the use of B.C. and A.D. for historic dates, as in Before Christ and Anno
Domini, and replace them with B.C.E., as in Before the Common Era, and C.E.
The deceptive claim that the United States was founded on a "separation of
church and state" gets the ax, and rightfully so. In fact, most of the
original thirteen colonies were founded as Christian communities with much
overlap between church and state.
History textbooks that deal with Joseph McCarthy will now
berequired<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.html>
to explain "how the later release of the Venona papers confirmed suspicions
of Communist infiltration in U.S. government." The Venona papers are
authentic transcripts of some 3,000 messages between the Soviet Union and
its secret agents in the United States.
Discussions of economics will not be limited to the theories of Karl Marx,
John Maynard Keynes, and Adam Smith. Textbooks must also include Milton
Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek, two champions of free-market theory.
History textbooks will now be required to cover the "unintended
consequences" of Great Society legislation, affirmative action, and
Title IX<http://www.eagleforum.org/topics/TitleIX/>
legislation. Textbooks should also include "the conservative resurgence of
the 1980s and 1990s."
Texas textbooks will now have to mention "the importance of personal
responsibility for life choices" instead of blaming society for everything
and expecting government to provide remedies for all social ills.
It's no secret that the people who control public schools are at war with
our nation's history, culture and achievements. Since taxpayers foot the
bill, it is long overdue for a state board of education to correct many
textbooks myths and lies about our magnificent national heritage and
achievements.
After a public comment period, a final vote on the Texas standards is
expected in May.
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