Excerpts from a column by Phyllis Schlafly, 3/16/10

“Don’t

Mess with Texas” is a popular slogan in our most prosperous state. By a 10-to-five margin, The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) just told liberals to stop “messing” with social studies textbooks.

For years, liberals have imposed their revisionist history on our nation’s public school children, expunging important facts and historic figures while loading the textbooks with liberal propaganda, distortions and clichés. When parents object to left-wing inclusions and omissions, they are usually vilified as ‘book burners” and belittled as uneducated primitives who should allow the “experts” to decide. The self-identified “experts” are alumni of liberal teacher colleges and/ or members of a left-wing teachers union.

[In Texas] the education“ experts” proposed their history revisions, such as eliminating Independence Day, Christopher Columbus, Thomas Edison, Daniel Boone and Neil Armstrong, and replacing Christmas with Diwali. After a public outcry, the SBOE responded with common-sense improvements. It’s no secret that the people who control public schools are at war with our nation’s history, culture and achievements. Since taxpayers foot the bill, it is long overdue for a state board of education to correct many textbook myths and lies about our magnificent national heritage and achievements.

To read Phyllis’ entire article, go to www.eagleforum.org.