Texas textbook controversy: Proposed changes in history book invite ire

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Sara Williams

23 May, 2010

The textbook of Texas has caused debate in the state. Conservatives want to revise Texas history curriculum to amend the teaching of the civil rights movement, slavery and America's relationship with United Nations.

THE HISTORY textbook of Texas has caused debate in the state. Conservatives want to revise Texas history curriculum to amend the teaching of the civil rights movement, slavery and America’s relationship with United Nations.

Conservatives were accused of trying to start up a baseless controversy by Democrats and moderate Republican. The conservatives referred to the President’s full name, Barack Hussein Obama, and the middle name was intended to negative connotation.

The Texas State Board of Education has tried to change the curriculum, but the People are having this debate that will change history. The recommendation has ignited a lot of arguments. The final vote has been drawn and the new standards will be implemented in May. About 4 million children are enrolled in the Texas public school system. After the votation in approving the standard that call for a change in the way of teaching of the state, a 9-5 vote, 15 members approved Texas Textbook Controversy.

Republican amendment also dropped the study of 1949 federal court ruling that could legally segregate Mexican American students. Educators believes that the proposed amendment is for politicizing education.

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To whom this may concern I Jamiyah Hawkins believe also that this is quite frightened. My decision about rewriting History is major, I don't live in Texas neither but maybe this a good decision we need to pay them back someway somehow so let's stick together for at least once and make civil rights a new chapter in our History books.!

I don't live in Texas, but this is quite frightening. Their textbooks are often cheaper than the ones from printers like McGraw-Hill. Their decision to rewrite history is similar to what Germany and Japan did after WWII. Ammending history, or in this case twisting it, does not change it. We do not learn from it, and ar destined to repeat it. Very sad from a state who had a lynching this century. They have no sensitivity at all. I wonder if the fifteen members that voted for this new textbook and teaching curriculum are familliar with Stalin and Lenin. They too liked rewriting history. Maybe Communism is alive and well in Texas.