[hanamizu]

” I would chose a History text from 1976 over any modern text.”

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I taught junior high history for 29 years before my retirement. I got to choose the text (it is a small, one-school district). when I first started, I had maybe a dozen different texts to choose from. By the time I retired, maybe three, because of consolidation of the text-book industry. All were worse than my previous text. Less reading and more pictures, charts, graphs and sidebars.

I’d do a quick check of how major events were covered. In the last text, the French and Indian War rated about a half a page. The only American soldiers pictured in WWI were black. ‘Rosie the Riveter’ rated more space than Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz combined. Major WWII battles rated one or two lines of text, which is kind of understandable because most kids now can’t/won’t read.

It is very discouraging to say the least.

[Aevery_Freeman]

I had to select Science textbooks that could scarcely mention any White, male person - largely unknown to me save Einstein (anti- Nazi).

I don't have to tell you about the limited selection and the hard sell - felt slightly Mafia-esque.

Just one of many grifts public education employs.