More Textbook News

In another FoxNews.com article...what?...Oh, you think I read nothing but FoxNews propaganda and have no mind of my own.  Well let me address that real quick.  I have found that many (if not most) of the other media outlets (notice nobody calls them news agencies any more) feature and exclude in a very biased way.  Take this issue, FoxNews.com picked it up, but I couldn't find it anywhere else in the "Main Stream Media".  Don't get me wrong, FoxNews.com has it's share of junk, mostly in the form of celebrity/gossip news and Victoria Secret/FMH advertisements made to look like news, which ticks me off.  The difference is that FoxNews.com doesn't ignore news because it doesn't fit their agenda.  So....that is enough of that.

As I was saying before I got interrupted, in another FoxNews.com article today there is a bit of controversy in Texas over what should or shouldn't be in their states textbooks.  Read it for yourself, I don't want to rehash the details, it is the broader idea I am interested in.

For a very long time liberal interests have worked to be the only voice in education (and their agenda still dominates overall).  The questioning of textbooks used to educate our children is a natural result of a sort of awakening that has been (slowly) occurring in the US with regard to conservative values our nation was founded on.  When you kids come home and inform you that your conservative ideas are wrong it gets your attention.  When you talk about it and they act as if they do not need to discuss anything because their professor/teacher told them your ideas are wrong, and then they point to a page in their textbook that backs it up, it is way past time to question what is going into textbooks.

The "experts" that are interviewed in these articles have opined about the influence of special interests groups inserting their agenda into textbooks.  This was fine when it involved inserting Global Warming (like evolution this is taught as a fact, not a theory) into science books, and don't get me started about what is taught about the Civil War.  Now when conservatives want to be sure things like the Liberty Bell and Paul Revere are mentioned liberal experts exclaim, "The Christians are coming!  The Christians are coming!"

This level of over sensitivity reveals how the liberals value the ability to control education, and thereby, rewrite history and shape the worldview of the next generation.  The tenacity of our effort to reclaim the truth in textbooks will reveal how much we conservatives value truth and our children's grasp of it.