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Originally Posted by nguirado
I can go on and on giving examples of liberal bias in California schools.
And nobody in Texas is banning books. They adopt a standard. Books have to meet that standard. California does the same thing. Do they "ban" books?
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I'll agree with the liberal bias in CA schools; it's one of the reasons I put up with the cost of living here.
And yes--not "banning" books. Using their buying power to influence the market, which every consumer, at whatever level, has the right to do. If they want books of a certain type, they have the right to tell publishers "change them, or we won't buy them."
This does mean that smaller states get squeezed out of the process. The solution isn't to force the big states to change their standards (although it might include forcing them to keep their standards in line with more of their populace, rather than the most vocal majority); solutions might include more small-press publishers who are able to cater their productions to smaller groups, or shifting educational standards to allow for more regional variations (get rid of national standardized tests), or splitting big states into multiple smaller states.
TX has the right to do this (it never will; it'd lose too much political power); CA would nicely split into Southern, Northern &
Jefferson, three regions with vastly conflicting political goals and social standards.