A bill introduced in California seeks to protect the countrys largest school system from the Texas Board of Education.
The board yesterday approved a series of changes in the social studies standards that will be taught to the states nearly 5 million schoolchildren and that were essentially expressions of panel members conservative political views.
Historians--and even conservative former secretary of education Rod Paige--argued that many of the changes skewed history but the board majority wanted what it wanted.
What it wanted for example was to minimize the legitimate role of the brilliant Thomas Jefferson; improperly explain the meaning and importance to the countrys development of the phrase separation of church and state"; incorrectly say that the McCarthyism of the 1950s was vindicated; require that that the United States be referred to as a constitutional republic" rather than democratic" (Im betting because democratic" sounds too much like democrat" to these conservative Republicans); and much more.
One change that was initially approved but then rescinded apparently because it was simply too embarrassing even for these people was to require that the system known as the slave trade" be known instead as the Atlantic triangular trade." The fact that it was first approved is more than disturbing.
A bill introduced in California seeks to protect the countrys largest school system from the Texas Board of Education.
The board yesterday approved a series of changes in the social studies standards that will be taught to the states nearly 5 million schoolchildren and that were essentially expressions of panel members conservative political views.
Historians--and even conservative former secretary of education Rod Paige--argued that many of the changes skewed history but the board majority wanted what it wanted.
What it wanted for example was to minimize the legitimate role of the brilliant Thomas Jefferson; improperly explain the meaning and importance to the countrys development of the phrase separation of church and state"; incorrectly say that the McCarthyism of the 1950s was vindicated; require that that the United States be referred to as a constitutional republic" rather than democratic" (Im betting because democratic" sounds too much like democrat" to these conservative Republicans); and much more.
One change that was initially approved but then rescinded apparently because it was simply too embarrassing even for these people was to require that the system known as the slave trade" be known instead as the Atlantic triangular trade." The fact that it was first approved is more than disturbing.
