So, apparently, Texas wants to revise history. And it could happen.
I also apparently put too much faith in the education system.
Earlier this month, members of the Texas State Board of Education voted to change its requirements for history curriculum in public schools, which means they could be teaching a revised version of American history, complete with its very own conservative twist.
What exactly does the Texas State Board of Education want to alter? If they get their way, more attention will be paid to conservatives (conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly has been tossed around quite a bit in reference to these additions) and less attention will be paid to founding father Thomas Jefferson, due to his ideas and advocacy of the separation of church and state. Additionally, less attention would be paid to minorities in history.
Oh, and country music would be featured as a cultural movement. Really? What’s next, a mandated uniform of denim shirts and cowboy boots?
“These standards are rife with leftist political periods and events: the populists, the progressives, the New Deal, and the Great Society,” Texas State Board of Education member Don McLer