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Want to know why Janey and Johnny don't know anything about history? Or science? Or think creationism is "science"? Or that Ronald Reagan, who declared ketchup a vegetable, is the greatest American President and Franklin Roosevelt is a failure?
Read this article:
Texas school book selection board attempts to rewrite American history.
This has been going on for decades, by the way - because Texas buys so many schoolbooks, their board's decisions have a nationwide impact. The Gablers found "mistakes," many of them bogus, in textbooks that departed from their own deeply conservative, right-wing evangelical Christian view of American history, biology, and social studies. The current school board is even worse.
Read this article:
Texas school book selection board attempts to rewrite American history.
This has been going on for decades, by the way - because Texas buys so many schoolbooks, their board's decisions have a nationwide impact. The Gablers found "mistakes," many of them bogus, in textbooks that departed from their own deeply conservative, right-wing evangelical Christian view of American history, biology, and social studies. The current school board is even worse.
