Posted on 02/11/2010 7:11:23 AM PST by Britt0n
A state board of only 15 people will vote on whether to revise U.S. textbooks to omit references to Daniel Boone, Gen. George Patton, Nathan Hale, Columbus Day and Christmas.
The Texas State Board of Education will also vote on a proposal to substitute the term "American" with "global citizen."
Mathew Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, is warning Americans to speak up before only eight people, with a majority vote, have a chance to literally rewrite American history.
He appeared on the "Huckabee Show" to explain why the board's vote matters to the rest of America. Staver said Texas and California are the two largest textbook purchasers in the nation.
"Whatever textbooks they select affect the rest of the country because publishers publish those kinds of books, and the rest of the country follows," he said.
But because of California's budget crisis, the state hasn't been able to purchase as many new textbooks, he explained. So the default is Texas.
"So when this 15-member board – eight people of that will make a majority – make a decision, it will affect the entire nation," Staver said.
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I remember that movie. Very interesting.
The Texas State Board of Education will also vote on a proposal to substitute the term "American" with "global citizen."
It looks like the poison planted by the 1960s culture is taking hold to destroy the USA. IMO, nothing short of a major purge of the vermin will restore American values -- borders, culture, and language.
“to revise U.S. textbooks to omit references to Daniel Boone, Gen. George Patton, Nathan Hale, Columbus Day and Christmas.” and replace it with Global citizen, at the behest of the immortal Hussein Obama, leader of leaders, and most holy rectitude, the man who sees all and knows all for mankind. Asshat leader of leaders!
Praise be to allah and obama!
I deeply hope they make the right choice!
excellent. bookmarked.
ping!
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Well - while I completely disagree with this methodology of developing textbooks for the whole country, who’s hands would you rather these decisions be in - California folks or Texas folks?
Now that being said - if these voters are from the Houston area... then it might as well be back in California!
But regardless. The textbooks have already been incredibly sanitized. The Civil War is now taught as 100% about slavery. There is more on Martin Luther King than the Revolutionary War and George Washington.
No mention of religious reasons for the first European settlers coming from Europe to escape persecution.
Whole bunch of pro-labor union propaganda in the textbook I looked at just a year ago - rather disgusting.
The history books of today have very little in common with the textbooks of 30 years+ ago. At least some of the chronology is the same...
Bookmark.
TYVM!
Yup, that was it....
These sanitized texts have already been approved by Texas over the years. There is no reason to think they won’t adopt the proposed changes this time too.
Get your children out of government schools. If you have grandchildren, help your children get them out too!
We need names and addresses. We need to know everything about them and then give it all to BECK, RUSH and LEVIN
Unless they burn EVERY BOOK in the world refferencing the history of the US, history will survive.
Our two daughters are both doing home school, thank you very much! I spent 14 years teaching in public schools before I entered full-time ministry. But the changes I saw in just those years convinced me (in a rural and formerly fairly conservative town) that I didn’t want my children in that.
IF a time comes that we cannot continue to home school, then we will do whatever it takes to get them in to one of a handful of good private schools in our area.
Bookmark
Excellent post.
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