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Don't Mess With Texas... Textbooks!

Antoinette15 Wrote: Mar 16, 2010 5:08 PM

Have you heard the phase "I teach, you learn"? If so, then don't discount the parents roll in teaching. My children are grown but that doesn't excuse me from keeping abreast of the current lack of knowledge being taught or rather discarded. You should have mentioned the school board in North Carolina who decided the tenth graders couldn't learn or needn't learn the early history of the United States. They decided the year 1877 was the start of this Nation. Know who was President? One term Rutherford B. Hayes. I did some research on him. He was elected by a special Congressional committee. As a grandparent, my obligation is still to education and not just good manners. A wasted mind is terrible but the number that these...

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Don't Mess With Texas... Textbooks!

By now, you most likely know that Texas has become ground zero for the latest battles in the textbook wars. While conservatives and progressives take their stands on the issue, I wonder: What would America's Founders think about this feud?

For those who somehow have dodged the news, the 15-member Texas State Board of Education, which is composed of 10 Republicans and five Democrats, has been hearing and debating variances of opinion regarding what to include and exclude in its social studies curriculum and subsequent textbooks.

Last Friday, the SBOE members began to wrap up the process by endorsing a...

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