http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10141121.stm

Thoughts? Opinions?

I haven't actually gotten to see the text books in question, but if they really are what the BBC is saying then I think it's quite the perversion of history. Especially the Thomas Jefferson part. The rest you could say is propogandist in pushing a particular politcal view, but If they try to remove Jeffersons  philosophies from the books it really is just censorship to hide information that one deems "dangerous". Attempting to keep people ignorant I think is far worse than providing skewed or biased information. Either way, I  think this over all is a bad thing. At least they still call the slave trade what it is.

Quote from the article:

"The changes include... that the Founding Fathers may not have intended a complete separation of church and state."

Quote from George Washington:

"The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine." (Source)

...Huh?

Most of it seems to be changes that should of been made. With a few changes being puzzling like the afforementioned Jefferson thing.

The economic changes really were mostly needed. Hell most history textbooks still teach us that the New Deal got us out of the Great Depression when 9 out of 10 economists will tell you it prolonged it. As it is now you spend 12 years of your life learning one thing, then once you hit college and take an economics course you learn it's all bunk.

Overall it will probably be a positive with some weird changes. 

The US educational system is kind of funny because extremists (on all affiliations) fight to get their propaganda included as curriculum; and the students are losing ground in the fundamentals because no one is focusing on making the core curriculum better.

At least creationism as an "alternative view" is not included right? .... Right?!!

Guess who's never living in Texas? This guy!

I can imagine Texas is a really liberal state

Sometimes i wonder if we shouldn't have just let Rick Perry have his way and have Texas secede. Then i remember that Texas gave us LBJ, so its contributed more than most states.

FootballFan said: I can imagine Texas is a really liberal state

Ya, most of the Southern and Midwest states are conservative/Republican while Western, Northeastern, and states near the Great Lakes are Democratic so most people from Texas are probably happy of releasing this false history in the classrooms.

RockSmith372 said: FootballFan said: I can imagine Texas is a really liberal state Ya, most of the Southern and Midwest states are conservative/Republican while Western, Northeastern, and states near the Great Lakes are Democratic so most people from Texas are probably happy of releasing this false history in the classrooms.

lol what false history might that be? The one that Jefferson wanted the state out of the church, becuase the king forced everyone in virginia to be part of his church, or would you rather they keep lying to kids and telling them the opposite. Lets see what else did they change? oh yeah they changed the name back to "the atlantic triangular trade"; thats what it was when I was in school, none of that political bs calling it "slavetrade" just to make black people happy.