If the proposed changes are not reversed it will have a terrible effect around the country. Texas buys so many schoolbooks that the publishers cater to them and students in other states wind up with bad books as well. If possible, the governor should fire the school board and appoint qualified people. If he doesn't Texas should replace its governor as soon as practical.

Travesty. Not that they've removed Jefferson from the textbooks. I strongly disagree with that move, but thats not the travesty. The travesty is that instead of teaching history, the Texas School Board, along with lawmakers and their governor have turned History classes in Texas into a political debate. To get a true glimpse at the history of our nation, you really need to have better look at the big picture. Not just one side.

Why just read the Anti-Federalist Papers? You get a much better idea of what was going on back then by reading the Federalist Papers too. Of course I doubt they even talk about either one of those writings in HS textbooks. Doesn't matter, my point is the same: you cant look at history thru modern day liberal or conservative shades (notice I didn't say glasses...these shades aren't even polarized).

But are conservatives the only ones guilty? Negatory! Liberals have also done the same thing, and when you read the sources I mention, both the Elephant Journal and the Huffington Post are so strongly against what is happening in Texas, that they go to the other extreme, and I believe that if they had it their way, would essentially do the exact same thing. The only difference would be that they'd have what goes against THEIR agenda in Ourstory (not His-story) taken out of the textbooks.

Things have not really changed that much since our country was founded. The "progressive" ideas of today are no more radical or new than the "conservative" ideas that many people claim our nation was founded on. There is some truth coming from the left and some coming from the right. There's also an agenda coming from both sides. Save that kind of crap for Political Science class. It doesn't belong in History class. It doesn't even belong in Government class. To turn Ourstory into a political agenda, instead of simply learning what happened and let people draw thier own political ideas from it, is a Travesty.