A River Between

Here’s another example of how the United States’ public education system can be highly politicized and taken over by interests other than real education and learning.

After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers’ commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light.

Read the entire article at The Guardian.

I remember growing up hearing all about the ills of Soviet Russia in the media (and in school). Propaganda, Pravda (a newspaper meaning “truth”), Mother Russia, etc. As children we all ate up the notion that “The United States is better” because we were free, we had the right to truthful education, etc. This was yet another lie my school told me. Now in Texas, students only get a one-sided truth now too.

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