Should Christians and conservatives be allowed to impose what some consider their own version of "American history" on school students? That's the question facing Texas' Board of Education, as seven conservative members push an initiative to correct a perceived liberal bias in the state's proposed curriculum — emphasizing, for example, the rise of the Moral Majority and the NRA. Liberal activists say the conservative bloc is trying to "whitewash the country's past" by literally rewriting history textbooks. Who's right? (Watch a Fox report about Texas' effort to rewrite history books)
The Texas conservatives care about politics, not education: These fundamentalist Christians are turning our children into political pawns, says Ruth Calvo in Firedoglake, by jamming their religion and extreme conservatism into classrooms. And since Texas' influential decisions influence how other states' textbooks are written, they're "passing along their stupidity" to the rest of the nation's kids, too.
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