[maine-iac7]

YOU FOLK DON'T KNOW THE HALF OF IT _ you post: “This is interesting. Since Texas has such a large population, they tend to have a lot of control over the textbooks used in Texas schools. Do we know if this is something produced in the school district or is it used statewide?”

Texas ia, has been for decade, the testing ground for textbooks. If they fly there, they get released across the country.

This is much worse than you think...

Decades ago, when I was politically active, my organization was umbrellaed with others in my state and across the country - Mel & Norma Gable were vital in our fight against gov’t takeover of our schools and our homes.

I remember one history book, for example, published and ‘tested’ in Texas, the one one short. derogatory paragraph on George Washington and 5 1/2 pages of text and photos of - Marilyn Monroe. (This was the early 1980’s.)

Mel and Norma are gone now, but Mel left a method to use for detecting these anti-Americam rewrites/distortions;

“BEST STRATEGY
Texas is the most conservative big state that state-approves textbooks. Texas has national leverage on publishers. Texas’ all-elected State Board of Education responds more to citizens. To impact Texas, Mel left in place a long institutional past, unusually experienced reviewers, and highly specific goals.

“Different people reviewing different textbooks different years tend to draw less precise com­par­i­sons and reinvent the wheel. Mel left in place a very stable review staff, active each year for decades, to write consistent, increasingly in-depth reviews over repeated Texas textbook adoption cycles.”

This is where you go for guidance in combatting this insidious undermining of our children, our families, our traditions and our Constitutin.

http://www.textbookreviews.org/index.html?content=nl_05_05.htm

To read about this dedicated couple and what they achieved -Question is, who is now carrying on this crucial oversight? Calls and emails to our reps doens't even scratch the srface - it's only the start. Where now are people like el and Norma?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_and_Norma_Gabler

[DustyMoment]

Calls and emails to our reps doens't even scratch the srface - it's only the start. Where now are people like el and Norma?

We Texans pay very close attention when these textbook reviews are being conducted because, on more than one occasion, we have caught a textbook publisher trying to sneak something by the review committee. So Mel and Norma aren't the only ones who keep an eye on these review committees, a lot of us in Texas do and keep them as honest as we can.