Roni Dean-Burren, who taught English for more than a decade and is now a doctoral candidate at the University of Houston, pointed out that the language of 'worker' suggests compensation and 'immigration' suggests that people weren't kidnapped and brought to North America against their will. She first learned about the textbook section when her son sent her a photo of the text......McGraw-Hill responded...'We believe we can do better...To communicate these facts more clearly, we will update this caption to describe the arrival of African slaves in the U.S. as a forced migration and emphasize that their work was done as slave labor.'...
...Dean-Burren points to wider criticism of the textbook industry...which is mostly based in Texas (and where) the Texas State Board of Education (approves all) textbooks.
...Books that received approval were more likely to be produced on a larger scale, (so) the Texas textbook market (in essence becomes) the national textbook market."
eye'm thynkin': I knew the Texas State School Board had given itself the right to suggest changes and to give final approval to all public school textbooks in exchange for Texas' textbook publishers providing their books to the state's school districts at no cost. (Profits were expected to be maintained by selling the identical books in other states.). It was reported that the Texas Board was putting a conservative "Christian" slant on what our young people learn. But this goes beyond anything I imagined. This is shameful in the extreme.
McGraw-Hill promises to "update" the caption. School districts don't buy new textbooks every year, so one has to wonder how many thousands of our children will learn that slavery was a "worker immigration" movement before McGraw-Hill's updates make their way into our classrooms?
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