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Originally Posted by mrscoach
Unless you have read the textbooks in question you cannot know if what one side or the other says is true or not. I have been in the schools, and I know that, overall, the claims are fairly true. I was even in a history classroom for a semester, so I had access to the texts. I cannot say about the current books, because they were adopted after I was looking at history books.
If Texas wants a conservative view, then that is THEIR perogative, it isn't up for debate for the rest of the US, or even the world. Do we tell California, Florida, New York or any other state what or how to teach? NO! The members of the SBOE are elected, not appointed. If the state isn't happy about their decisions they can vote them out. This resolution isn't binding, just a suggestion. Frankly, most of us are quite happy where we are and wouldn't live anywhere else, and appreciate the conservative leaning of the state.
For whoever it was that was blaming our governor, Perry, for the textbook issue. He had/has nothing to do with it. He is completely separate from the SBOE, and did not appoint the members.
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That wouldn't be as great a concern if it stayed in Texas, but the text book publishers don't want to publish one set of textbooks for Texas and another for the rest of the nation, and since Texas is so big and constitutes such a huge slice of the market share, as goes Texas, so goes the nation.