Texas Drives the School Bus
By Wink
There are educated people in Texas. Many of them.
I am guessing they mostly live in Dallas. (No offense to the rest of Texas. I am confident you are strong and brave and no one loves America any more than you.)
Erudite Texans, whether from Dallas or not, do not appear to be well-represented on the Texas State Board of Education.
This august board routinely takes a can of whitewash to American history books, wiping out inconvenient or uncomfortable facts.
Look, ladies and gentlemen of the TSBE, we get it, America is the greatest country in the history of this planet (all 6000 years).
In order to maintain this greatness, we cannot be afraid to examine, and let our kids examine, the few areas where the good old U. S. of A. has been less than perfect. We learn from our mistakes, do we not?
I normally would not care that Texas chooses to under-educate their own kids, but their weight with the publishers of textbooks is such that, to save money, these companies mostly choose to use the “Texas-model” texts throughout the country.
Of course, I should really be mad at the publishers, but this world is made up of two key elements, dollars and cents. Publishers are not so much obligated to educate our kids as to make their stockholders happy.
This is the American way.
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