Teachers and Texas Textbooks

Teachers and Texas Textbooks

. . . With that as a preface, it’s no wonder public school teachers, led by the NEA, are less than enthralled by the recent demands by the Texas legislature and Board of Education that textbooks reverse the trend of the last half-century to mandate texts that are politically correct.

It’s time for some balance and time for textbooks to reflect a little more sense of patriotism instead of the beliefs of socialist studies departments and their like.

As expected, liberals are distorting the Texas changes. Thus, one (liberal) Texan in an article on Salon.com decries the inclusion of textbook information on Jefferson Davis, states’ rights, the Confederacy, and the Southern view of slavery which he contends is one-sided and distorted: http://tiny.cc/vhiek

What also is getting liberal panties in a wad is the Texan insistence:

. That God and religion were founding principles of the nation and of the Founding Fathers;

. That separation of church and state was not the intent of the First Amendment;

. That our free enterprise economic system should be . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1710)