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Originally Posted by kennyc
I think you are treading on dangerous ice any time you try to paint with as broad a brush as appears in your last couple of posts.
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Somebody asked me for an example of the different approach to history the Texas school board wants to take. I gave what I think is an accurate description and gave this example, semi-humorously. I also gave the real-world Daniel Boone-Cesar Chavez example. If you look at California textbooks, you'll see that a much greater emphasis is given to the achievements of minorities in the context of overcoming prejudice. There's nothing inherently wrong with either the California or Texas approach and both points of view are accurate in what they deal with.
For a better illustration of what I mean, download Howard Zinn, for the California view (I studied it and it leaves out facts that don't correspond to his thesis like the railroads paid back the loans with interest a few years after building the railroads) and something like William Bennett for the Texas view.