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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in Texas (HS class of ‘89) and I assure you, the textbooks covered the Civil War as a MAJOR thing that was definitely about slavery.  We covered slavery, Dred Scott, the Underground Railroad, Reconstruction, the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, lynchings, the Jim Crow laws, Plessy v Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Rosa Parks, MLK Jr., Frederich Douglas, Harriet Tubman,  George Washington Carver, Langston Hughes, Buffalo  Soldiers, Tuskegee Airmen, etc.

We also covered broken treaties with Native Americans, the Trail of Tears, massacres, widespread buffalo slaughter, reservations and reservation schools, Windtalkers, etc.

We covered Japanese internment camps and Chinese exclusion laws.

We covered Caesar Chavez and migrant workers.

The textbooks weren’t perfect.  There is always room for improvement in anything.  My teachers (like good teachers everywhere) occasionally supplemented with additional materials to provide additional information and to make it more interesting, but the textbooks provided  a strong foundation and framework to expand upon.  On occasion, the textbooks might have a typo or factual error, but that was after they had been edited and reviewed by teams of subject matter experts and consequently reviewed and selected by the state.  I had far more confidence in them than I do with a haphazard curriculum put together by a local school district.[/quote]

You might think your textbooks weren’t whitewashed because that’s all you know.

Here’s one history teachers view  …
https://bdjanu.medium.com/race-and-the-whitewashing-of-history-in-our-textbooks-501a15ddb181

And it’s not just history.  In 2023 …
The Republican-controlled Texas State Board of Education this week rejected most of the proposed textbooks that include climate science for eighth grade students. Five of 12 were approved.

The 15-member board largely rejected the books either because they included policy solutions for climate change or because they were produced by a company that has an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) policy.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/17/texas-climate-textbooks-education-SBOE/
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