"The same bad actors who are calling for racist, homophobic, and transphobic book bans are also calling for climate denial in science textbooks," said one critic.
The big problem with this is that most book publishers will accept any standards imposed upon them by the state of Texas in order to not lose the business of the enormous number of books purchased by their school systems. This has the effect of censoring textbook publishers for textbooks that are sold nation-wide across the US. The vast majority of US school children learn a curriculum that was decided in Texas.
And that kind of explains a lot about our various political crises, doesn’t it?
Shit states gonna shit state
The big problem with this is that most book publishers will accept any standards imposed upon them by the state of Texas in order to not lose the business of the enormous number of books purchased by their school systems. This has the effect of censoring textbook publishers for textbooks that are sold nation-wide across the US. The vast majority of US school children learn a curriculum that was decided in Texas.
And that kind of explains a lot about our various political crises, doesn’t it?
California has to need more textbooks than Texas. We end up setting industry standards.