Texas Board of Education: Academia hates the Baby Jesus

[marmar]

In the latest chapter of America's increasingly fraught relationship with Islam, the Texas Board of Educationis planning to issue a resolution saying they won't accept textbooks that portray Islam in too favorable a light.

What happens in Texas doesn't stay there. Decisions the Texas Board makes actually have a great influence on the content of textbooks across the country.

The Texas Board made headlines earlier this year after it proposed revisions to its social studies curriculum that would make it focus less on the civil rights movement, paint McCarthyism in a friendlier light, and cut Thomas Jefferson out of the curriculum, among other things. Since the state is one of the largest sources of demand for new textbooks, opponents of the Texas Board decisions worried that textbook companies would start tailoring their products to Texas specifications.

At the time, publishing insiders dismissed Texas's influence over the national textbook market as an overblown “urban myth.”

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Now Texas wants to ban textbooks that exhibit a "bias against Christianity," which seems to be code for textbooks that describe other religions in detail, or ones that don't portray Christianity as totally dominant.

According to The New York Times, the proposed resolution takes issue with “past textbooks devoted more lines to Islamic beliefs and practices than to Christianity and spelled out atrocities committed by Christian crusaders while ignoring similar atrocities by Muslim fighters.” ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://campusprogress.org/articles/texas_uses_its_purchasing_power_to_downgrade_islam_in_textbooks/

[msongs]

1. hey save lots of $ n give kids free bibles donated by the xtians nt

[MineralMan]

2. Yah, and make them read the whole thing, too. That would

cut down on the number of Christians quick-like. Christianity depends on people reading just parts of the Bible.

[ensho]

3. the Texas Board of Education is packed with the religiously insane

nothing good or sane will come from them.

[PVnRT]

4. Maybe they should rename the stars in the astronomy textbooks

After all, most of them are Arab names.

Oh, and algebra? I guess that's Freedom Math now.

Speaking of math, we use arabic numerals. Only Roman numerals, created by good white Romans, shall be acceptable to the Texas Board of Fuckwits Education.