My dad taught history and U.S. government for over 30 years, and he did his due diligence - with a vengeance - when choosing the textbooks whenever the school bought new ones (I want to say they lasted about 3-5 years back in those days). As the years went by, he would increasingly complain about how his choices kept getting worse and worse. He got into an argument with his last principal, who insisted that dad take the textbook that he (the principal) wanted to buy. There was hardly anything about WWII in the book, and what it said about Korea and Vietnam made dad (Korean War vet) madder than a hornet.
This principal had been a mediocre elementary school teacher who left our system, got his masters - possibly dodging the draft in the bargain, IIRC - and returned the same wise-ass he had always been but now as an administrator. Dad was told that he had no say in the matter. My father retired soon afterwards, but it always rankled him how that "no-good so-and-so" made me teach from that "excrement-y" book, etc, etc.
Thank you. I’m very sorry to say I’m not surprised. I did read that a school board in Texas took a stand on this front. There are probably a lot of parents who don’t know the difference.
If they get it through enough generations, no one will question the textbooks and they win.
I once did a protest outside a Catholic Highschool with teachers who were ripping page’s out of the health class book book and throwing them in the air.Fun Time.Both my Kids were in the School.We chased out the Mayor’s sorry ass too who was speaking.
Back in the early 90s, when my kids were little, I gave serious thought to forming a company that would go around buying old history books from k-8 schools, and stockpiling them for sale to home schoolers and private schools. I remember the ones that I we had in my days in school, they taught about America, it’s founding and its great figures in history, and I saw that the new books coming out at the time were going in a different direction, one that we are now reaping the consequences of.
Anyway, I actually looked into it, searching for bulk sales and creating preliminary plans, but the law practice had a way of interfering and I eventually gave up on the idea. Wish I had done it.
"All textbooks now teaching the start of WW1 &2 is NATIONALISM
My kid freaked when this is what he had to say for his test
He said the teacher said Nationalism and Patriotism are different. Nationalism is evil."
Makes sense if you're a globalist.