Truth or Twisted Fiction

It appears today that Texas has adopted the more Conservative textbook curriculum. Geez, I hope so. It's Texas, ain't it? Yippee Kiyay and all that?

Why are we having a media frenzy over telling the truth to a child through a textbook? What the? Why are liberals so afraid of the truth that they do everything including threaten people to stop it from being told? Did they not receive any timeouts for bad behavior growing up? Can we wash out their mouths with that great green soap?

I didn't freak out when I found out that Custer was a pig, and yes my history book taught what happened without calling him that. My history classes were interesting and the teachers made us look things up in various media. We didn't have the internet,so we actually had to work at it, but we learned the good, the bad, and the ugly. It didn't kill us, it made us better. Textbooks need to be objective, but tell the truth. They need to spur a child to dig deep and check things out, not indoctrinate them with skewed, twisted lies.

In an interview on Greta Van Sustern (Fox News)this last week with a teacher from Arizona (Hispanic, by the way), we learned that he was fired by the school because he refused to tell Latino children that they were victims of the white establishment. Sounds kinda familiar...uh, from somewhere...uh...

To tell our children that Christians were not an integral part of the history of America is ludicrous. To train children that they should think of themselves as victims, filling their hearts with bitterness at an early age guarantees generations of worthless, nonproductive citizens. They can't overcome the storms of life because they are too busy feeling sorry for themselves.

Train up children to be overcomers. Train them to move past their setbacks and hurts and teach them to love in spite of the problems they encounter. Then they will become great people, capable of leading this nation into the future. Stop looking backward, start looking forward. And stop teaching them to point the finger at everyone else and shift the blame- teach them to be responsible for their own actions.

And somebody puhlease tell the people who are making all the weiner/whining about the textbooks and the AZ immigration law to shut up? They are really giving us all a headache.