Texas teaches a revised and censored version of history in the classroom. In truly Orwellian fashion, they have edited everything to reflect a Christian fundamentalist ideological bias. Lincoln is now taught about alongside the confederate leader and the civil rights movement has been edited out. Creation "science" is now taught alongside evolution. This is like teaching miasmatic theory alongside germ theory. Evolution is an accepted scientific fact. It isn't "just a theory", it is a theory in the same way that gravity and water displacement are theories. We might as well start teaching every crank theory we have. We could teach that the Earth is flat alongside round Earth theory, after all, it is imperative that we "teach the controversy".
Also changed are words such as "propaganda" when referring to the American invasion of Mexico. It is now "public education", not propaganda. No longer do students have to hear about the awful mistakes their country made in the past, now we can just ignore them. This is known as ostrich syndrome; "if I can't see it it isn't there!"
Worst of all, it isn't just the Texans who will suffer from this, as Texas is a large buyer of textbooks, companies often sell the textbooks with the Texas revisions for schools all over America.
Also changed are words such as "propaganda" when referring to the American invasion of Mexico. It is now "public education", not propaganda. No longer do students have to hear about the awful mistakes their country made in the past, now we can just ignore them. This is known as ostrich syndrome; "if I can't see it it isn't there!"
Worst of all, it isn't just the Texans who will suffer from this, as Texas is a large buyer of textbooks, companies often sell the textbooks with the Texas revisions for schools all over America.