Alex Carrington- Texas Education Has Removed Hillary Clinton From Mandatory Curriculum

This article was written yesterday, September 15, 2018, by Grace Segers for CBS News. The text presented the concept that the Texas Board of Education has decided to remove historical figures Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller from mandatory history curriculum in Texas schools. The vote was taken in attempt to lesson what students must learn in their history classes. This was not the first time that the board has removed historical influences from mandatory education. Five years ago, the approval of textbooks that did not include creationism as an alternative to the theory of evolution were delayed because of opposition from Christian conservatives. They also chose to insert Moses as an influence on American politics and removed the philosopher Thomas Hobbes from a section on individuals whose principles of laws and government informed the American founding. I had no idea of the events on the board, but I absolutely disagree with the decision. I would love to streamline what we have to learn in school just as much as anyone else, but I believe that the people that they have decided to eliminate from the curriculum are very important and helped to shape our present. I believe that this article was written for everyone, as well as to show the way that the people in power are dictating what we know. The board is deciding our history, which relates to the past when people have changed, bended, and molded the truth, or when we have heard a story from only one perspective.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-board-of-education-votes-to-remove-hillary-clinton-from-history-curriculum/