If the Texas School board gets it’s wish, and textbooks are rewritten to reflect that Thomas Jefferson was NOT one of the great thinkers and founders of this country, what on earth are kids going to think years from now when they see the Jefferson Memorial in D.C. Are they going to be completely mystified as to why such a grand beautiful monument of someone who had no impact on this country was built? I know I’d be curious. So, what’s the next step – tear the monument down the same way Sadam Hussein’s statue was torn down? Thank God they couldn’t get the words Slave Trade changed to Atlantic Trade Labor – can you imagine, they even want to deny that there was slavery in this country. Folks…y’all better pay attention.
An explanation of why Texas wants to do this: Thomas Jefferson was adamant about a separation of church & state…he didn’t even have a chapel built at the Univ. of Va because he wanted to keep ideological and religious beliefs out of learning.
The Texas School Board has an agenda of indoctrinating children now into a Christian belief so that eventually they will turn this country, our United States of American, into a religious state…think about the other religious states out there..Afghanistan, the Taliban..Saudi Arabia, Iraq..and on and on…These are our here and now examples of what religion-controlled governments can do, and how they can suppress people in order to control them…
So, the natural first step is for Texas is to strip all credibility from Thomas Jefferson…y’all OK with that? I’m not.
Why should the rest of us care what Texas does? Because they order so many textbooks, it’s cheaper for the rest of the states to just buy the Texas version instead of having separate versions. There is a claim that because of on-line editing, the textbooks can be customized for any curriculum…I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for this to happen.
