Commentary on Writing the Truth out of Texas Textbooks

Mary (Kura) Hill's blog about the State Board of Education was really interesting. She says "how in the world did we end up voting in people who want to implement religion into the school curriculum and take out facts and true events related to minority groups?". I found it very disturbing that this was even happening. A reference from where she found this news would help but she still has strong evidence to support her argument. She believes that the SBOE shouldn't have anything to do with implementing religion in the school's curriculum and that the people should be the ones to decide what is put into textbooks of Texas. The argument is against the implementation of right wing beliefs intertwined with christianity to be taught in schools. I'm highly against this because it would only set a generation of people in Texas backwards instead of forwards. These beliefs would also include a neglect towards other races due to predominantly white christian biased teaching. I think that if religion was taught at all in schools it should introduce all religions. She also identifies Don McLeroy of the Texas SBOE and gives evidence of an interview exposing the SBOE's beliefs in the matter. It explains basically what is above that left-wing history should be countered with right-wing history. Mary closes the blog with her opinion that the "founding fathers" would have liked us to make our own decisions towards religion rather than having another "entity" try to convert us. I couldn't agree more. She used good evidence and made a great argument.