Recently, the Texas Board of Education passed a law allowing politicians to rewrite history by making changes to the state-mandated history, social studies, and economics textbooks. Their Board of Education has called for changes that are considered politcally conservative--leaving out the writings and philosophies of Thomas Jefferson, focusing more attention on the conservative resurgence of the 1980's and 90's, justifying McCarthyism, highlighting the violent efforts of the Black Panther Party during the Civil Rights Movement, and leaving out a number of major hispanic figures from the curriculum being taught in a state with an extremely high hispanic population.
Texas is showing us what happens when politics gets too tightly entangled with education. Telling the truth about our country and molding the minds of future generations should not become a battle between the right and left. The crazy thing about the truth is that it knows no political ideology. Hopefully, we can learn the value of education outside of the classroom. Texas shows us that the truth has been, is, and will probably always be missing from the classroom. So, instead of debating over what our kids learn at school, lets counter the politics with what our kids learn, once they step out of the classrooms. Education is about more than textbooks. Be a part of the SOLUTION.
OxyJon
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