I think that wonderful phrase pretty much summarizes this article on Texas' influence on national textbooks for history classrooms across the country.
Pretty soon they'll just edit (or revise) the whole 1960's out of textbooks altogether.
And - worst of all - is their last tenant -- as stated below
- A recommendation to include country and western music among the nation’s important cultural movements. The popular black genre of hip-hop is being dropped from the same list.
As one who thinks that outside of Johnny Cash, country and western music has set this country back at least two decades - that my friends - even more so than either Palin or Ventura running for President - marks the coming of Armageddon.
But will the new textbooks mention that good old Willie Nelson smoked pot with a security officer on top of the White House?
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I enjoyed reading a teacher's perspective on this issue, and think you'll enjoy this video: http://bit.ly/aPgFpL
I love your comment about Texas removing the 1960s altogether. I'm a college student and just enrolled in a course called "America in the 1960s." They may be able to stop it in high schools for now, but not at the university level.
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