Well… we could put Texas Republicans in charge of textbooks.
The first draft for proposed standards in United States History Studies Since Reconstruction says students should be expected “to identify significant conservative advocacy organizations and individuals, such as Newt Gingrich, Phyllis Schlafly and the Moral Majority.” […] Others have proposed adding talk show host Rush Limbaugh and the National Rifle Association.
Hey, maybe they could also add chapters on the fact that Hawaii is a state and Medicare is government health care. But just when you thought it couldn’t get worse…
Earlier this year, a panel of right-wing “experts” produced a report urging the committee to remove biographies of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Stephen F. Austin, and César Chávez, and instead add history about the “motivational role the Bible and the Christian faith played in the settling of the original colonies.”
Hmmm… drop Washington and Lincoln for Phyllis Schlafly and Newt? Seriously? Republicans really need to get off their “competition in education” soapbox. Children raised on a diet of this stupidity will suffer a severe educational disadvantage – Nationally and Globally. This isn’t history, it’s brainwashing. It’s a cult.