Bill White injects politics into the State Board of Education...

The Texas State Board of Education of course is elected by Texas voters... it has 15 members who serve various districts around the country...

Bill White is trying to unilaterally overrule them and inject his own warped politics into the system (link). Excerpt follows...

“Obviously, I would pick a chair who would try to undo some of the damage that is being done as quickly as we can,” White told the Houston Chronicle.

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Yes, Bill White wants to take the politics out of Texas textbooks — right after he uses it for political gain.

Here is the thing... appointing a certain chair from the 15 member elected committee would not do much. This is an independent body for a reason...

Ann Althouse has actually investigated this, and she concludes that the liberal msm is tilting the coverage to give false impressions of what the State Board is actually doing (link). Excerpt follows...

If you're going to criticize the new social studies curriculum adopted by the Texas Board of Education, you'd better quote it.

Or at least link to the text. And if you choose to paraphrase and not even link, and I have to look up the text myself, and your paraphrase is not accurate, it is my job to embarrass you by pointing that out.

Bill White is injecting politics into the situation... stirring peeps up about things that are being intentionally misreported...

I don't see this as a winning issue. Picking fights on culture wars in a state like Texas... doesn't make sense for a liberal elitist like Bill White.

The more he brings it up, the more backlash there will be from conservatives. Observe (link). Excerpt follows...

The left started this war by attacking what was for years taken for granted about America, most especially that we are an exceptional country. The proof is the number of people who want to come here and the selflessness displayed by our citizens in the treasure we've spent and the blood we've spilled on behalf of others.

Too many on the left seem embarrassed by America's prosperity and standing in the world. The right seems just as committed to tearing the country down, literally and figuratively.

When liberals rewrite textbooks, inserting their own spin on history, they are said to be engaging in academic freedom. When conservatives attempt to do the same, they are called censors, bigots, anti-scientific and worse.

Don't think that liberals will win this issue just because they are winning it in the mainstream media... the American people know better... they know that our kids are bombarded with liberal ideas in public schools, and they also know better than to believe people who falsely claim that Thomas Jefferson was taken out of the curriculum.