Texas Textbooks are Faith Based

Texas is becoming California. Why do I say that? Because a belief is swaying the writing of textbooks.

California became a wacky place once it had the belief that paying property taxes was more important than education. Slowly education was commoditized to the teaching on the lowest common denominator or at least the average student. The geniuses were bred to be house painters and the poor performers left behind. Some, like myself, got lucky and had damn good bootstraps and got out of the university before it too was gutted.

How can Texas education be faith based? The board of education in Texas is an elected political body. Because Texas is overburdened with Christian Right Conservatives, we get Christian Right Conservatives for the Board of Education. To turn a phrase, do the math.

This is how you make things better for your faith, political party, or even your paranoid delusions. Just sway the voters to your side, get elected, and then brainwash the masses by rewriting history. Did you see that one coming? Ask the current board, they admit to jamming their ideals into text books.

The funny thing here is the result. If it is faith based, do we stop testing? Surely you can take it on faith? What about getting a job? The moral majority is entitled, right? I mean it is going to be a breeze for kids that are growing up in Texas.

On the other hand, will Texas have a new explosion of Home Schooled kids? Now that the right has the faith and politics on every page, the rest are going to start home schooling in droves. Soon the local Home School Supply stores here in Texas will need to start selling Darwin instead of Bibles.

Are you a budding textbook writer? Time for a whole new line of skeptical student or critical thinker based textbooks. Why not history books that have confirmed facts? Better yet, books that tell the truth rather than both sides (the watered down truth and what someone wants you to believe).

Texas, now a faith based economy. Send me a million dollars, please. I have faith that I will spend it wisely.