Ever think how useful those text books were in school? Did they seem a little bland to you? DUH! they were because of parents sucking the fun out of learning!
When my education class started last Wednesday I thought it was going to be a blow off. Little did I know that I was going to be part of the most controvercial issue in education today.
Places like California and Texas have taken control of the text book publishing companies only because they have a system of text book adoptions. (Here are the states that do this and not: http://www.publishers.org/school/schoolarticle.cfm?SchoolArticleID=32
Every tb that is sold in their state has to pass a pannel of "judges" which consists of activist groups that just want to have an opinion on something to actual civil rights activists. The people that shouldn't have a say what so ever are the activist that are trying to make a name for themselves. In fact I don't think any one but the teachers themselves should have a major impact on what goes into a tb.
There are certain phrases, words and dipictions that are not allowed to be published in a tb because one activist group or another doesn't like it or some one finds it offencive. The only thing offencive about tb's are that people are makeing such a fuss over what shouldn't be in there and sugar coating what should. The way our American History books look compared to say when my mother was in high school is so drastic it's not funny.
Parents are trying to hide their children from the world and it's not going to do either any good. When that poor sheltered child becomes an adult he or she may not have any clue as to whats going on.
Some of these groups are trying to over rule predgidices...by taking out everything that was in the text books about salvery of any kind. Our tbs are not allowed to have the words Black or White in them if they are being used as a noun. Does that make any sense to you? They are trying to teach children not to hate and yet they are not allowing them to see why they shouldn't. Come on people....
Here are a few of the things they are not allowed to have in a text book:
Nothing about snack foods: oreoes (b/c of the lawsuit in California), they are not allowed to dipict a Native American woman sewing buffallo hides, washing clothes, building a fire, or ...the list goes on...tell me isn't that what these poor women did day in and day out...they are just making everything look better to sugar coat things and its ticking me off!
For an updated version and examples of what they cannot write go to me blog! Not ready yet but will be soon!
thankyou tammy! i seriously love you.
i have been reading about the censorship in our textbook, and I am appalled.
How do these people expect our children to understand today's world if they omit this information?!!!!!!!
Do you have any sources that you can verify this information with? I am doing a paper over textbook censorship and would love for you to point me in the direction of some sources to use...
Sucrose intolerance ... that can only mean one person ...
what is text book censorship
people???
For anyone coming in late, yes my comment should indeed have had a smiley.
Are these comments supposed to be "ha ha?" I took it as one....
WHAT!?! No. This can't be right...why would they censor a blog or anything on censoring. I thought people should know what the companies are doing just for profit. All the poor kids are learning about stuff their parents want them to know not what the world makes it impossible to live without.
As a future teacher this is an outrage to me... I won't stand for it!
Tammy, the Seton Hill University Blog Review Board has asked me to delete this post out of sensitivty to students whose family are involved in the textbook censoring business, or who have a sucrose intolerance.
Looking forward to your blog entry... will you have links to further reading?