On 6/5/2014 4:31 PM, Markem wrote:
On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 14:17:10 -0500, Swingman wrote:

On 6/5/2014 8:50 AM, Markem wrote:
On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 06:49:56 -0500, Swingman wrote:

On 6/4/2014 10:11 PM, Lew Hodgett wrote:

And then there is the Texas state board of education and their
rewrite of early US history.

Cite?

My wife worked for Scott Foresman, and Texas's requirements for text
books drove the industry nuts.

Yep, long time Texan's, who didn't just move here in the last 20 years,
are independent and don't put up with a whole lot of bull****.

For instance, when the textbook sellers tried to sneak in a book with
the phrase:

“The people have the right to keep and bear arms in a state militia.”

... presented as a summation (totally erroneous) of the 2nd Amendment in
a proposed text book last year, they do tend to get their Levi's in bunch.

Let's address the question ... a cite where Texas' State Board of
Education was engaging in a "rewrite of early US history"?

The requirements of the Texas State Board of education dominated text
book publishing, so in some view the demanded rewrite US history. Now
to be fair the California requirements were just as much of a PIA. The
volume of text books, made those two states "needs" paramount.



So when you say that they dominated the text book publishing, and it
could viewed that it was demanded ma rewrite of US history, it could be
viewed that they demanded that the textbooks actually be rewritten using
actual facts.

In the past 20~30 years it there have been countless media coverages
showing absurdly incorrect information in some text books being used.

So I can see how they would want to be quite strict about what is being
taught.