Conservatives Playing With History Books

Is it also true that they worked intelligent design into the biology text book.

His views on the separation of church and state is so far from what we see being taught today. The main idea of separation of church and state was that the government couldn't meddle in religious affairs. It didn't mean that religion had no place in government; it meant that government had no place in religion. The history of this comes from the founding fathers' experience in England where the government controlled and watched over the Church of England. The government dictated what the church should do. It was that type of environment that the founding fathers were trying to prevent. And they should definitely include Intelligent Design into the Biology textbooks. If they allow for the "theory" of evolution in textbooks, they should allow Intelligent Design to be taught. What's the problem with students learning both?

But Intelligent design is not even a science. Yes Evolution is a theory just like gravity and relativity. Intelligent design is not even a theory.

How much you want to bet that those same Texans will quote Jefferson next time Obama does something that they disagree with?

lmao so true. I love Jefferson for quotes. He was very well spoken. What hypocrites.

Because it has everything to do with conservatives. It isn't liberals doing this.

So neither of you have documentation or any motive that this is sinister?

As usual, Epic is right. I, too, have been watching the Texas textbook acquisitions battle for decades, & it has always been tilted waaaay to the Left when it comes to history revision. It has been Conservatives fighting to keep major historical figures & events from being removed (that includes religious events which helped shape this country), & it's a never-ending vigil! Honest errors, grammatical, spelling, etc., are a different matter. It might be the fault of people "edumuhcated" in the dumbed-down, modern government indoctrination centers (laughingly called "public schools"), or just carelessness, but we go after those, as well, knowing the importance of teaching proper skills to children. I'm not prepared to say the reason there are so many such mistakes is political & deliberate--perhaps so, perhaps not--but it does bear repeating that the experimental nature of Left-thinking educators has allowed "non-standard" (read flat-out WRONG) English spelling, grammar & pronunciation to be used, supposedly in order to assuage our children's dainty sensibilities..."delicate self esteem" must remain unbruised, never mind that we're the only first world nation with such know-nothing children, who have even graduated not knowing our history, or even how to find the U.S.A. on a map! I mean, seriously, people...! Still in all I think something here is deliberate, & that is someone is attempting to smear Conservatism & its adherents, while in fact I KNOW it has been we who have held the banner high to keep such people as Washington, Jefferson, & other such major historical figures IN the books. So, I'm not just going to lie down & let the PC juggernaut run right over me. I still say, something stinks. Maggiepie Can't find a spot for your discussion that really fits? Try Open Mike!

Oh but it is so much easier to just brain wash them

It wouldn't be fine for those Texas school children, but at lest it would be confined to just them, which still does not make it right though. When their decisions effect school children else where now that is where I draw the line.

A Kindle is an interesting idea.

As usual, Maggiepie is right.

Who exactly are "these folks" that you refer to? And what facts have been "mis-configured"? Which wars are you talking about that have supposedly been won by the same side?

Educators, school boards, publishers and apparently a great number of parents, that do not fact check their information. Two years ago an independant agency went through the high school history books and found unbeleivable factual flaws. Examples that I remember and some facts that I found checking our local school books; Nepolean winning the battle of Waterloo. (Wrong accross the country) Sixth US president, Andrew Jackson. Japan's ally in WWII, Russia. Japan had no nuclear capability when we dropped the bomb ending the war with Japan. The US owns the Falkland Islands. Texas winning at the Alamo. The 1967 Korean war. Cuba is a socialist society. America's first attack by a foreign country was 9.11.01 (my personal favorite) The Bush family were the first family to have two US presidents. America Somalia is a US state. (We really owe them a star on the flag) We (a small group of parents) took a 8th grade History book and found 180 incorrect historical facts (we won't discus miss-spellings and grammer problems) and that was on just one effort with very little research. If we cannot get the non-controversial facts correct how can we have intellegent conversation about real issues. As a history buff I realize that most of the information I received in public education, 30 years ago, was very limited and very little effort was ever put into the "why" of history but most of the facts and dates were correct. The conversation about the "Texas School Books" has come up every couple of years over teh last twenty years and every time nothing gets done about correcting the situation. The folks who write the college text have admitted publicly that they dumb down the higher education text every year. It is a progressive de-educating system. The real question is, does any of it matter with a fifty percent drop out rate.