Markem wrote:

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.

The sorry state of public education is much deeper than the sorry spectacle
of partisan, and religious, politics in matters regarding textbooks in
almost all states, but it is indeed a contributing factor.

That said, the terminology, like the word "adopt", always used by those
with an agenda, suggests that a book is mandated for use, instead of being
"approved for local option".

You see this in screaming headlines like "Texas Adopts "Fearson's Biology"
For Use In High Schools", while the reality is that this (POS, in my
opinion) book is merely included on a list of biology books "approved" for
"local option" by those backward districts who chose to do so (it's a free,
if stupid, country, right?) ... far different reality than what those who
write the headlines want you to believe.

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