| The rest of the southern school boards buy text books as a bloc, based on the choices made by Texas. Since the 'blue state' school boards don't do this, they don't have the editorial power of that bloc. Therefore, it's no longer possible to buy a health education textbook in the US that does anything other than teach abstinence, ignoring the fact that abstinence-only teaching has utterly failed in Texas.
Further, the following changes have been made (and others):
Evolution: In Our World Today: People, Places and Issues (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill), a passage noting that “glaciers formed the Great Lakes millions of years ago” was altered to read “in the distant past” after a conservative reviewer attacked the phrase as merely “the opinion of some scientist who support [sic] the theory of evolution.”
Islam: A passage in World Explorer: People, Places and Cultures (Prentice Hall) noting that the Quran teaches “the importance of honesty, honor, giving to others and having love and respect for . . . families” was deleted after a conservative reviewer branded it “more propaganda” for Islam.
Global warming: Prentice Hall dropped an entire section on global warming from World Explorer after a reviewer charged that it would “prepare students to look to the government for solutions to problems.”
article here - and you may find this offensive, but I'm going to group all of America together on this until its citizens can get their s4 together and reject lies.
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