Thought For The Day

  • Thought For The Day

    Textbook Wars

    How come no one ever asks me what I think? I don’t get any calls wanting to know what to do about these arguments. And I know the solution. “Leaders of an interfaith group that includes Christians, Jews and Muslims urged the State Board of Education on Monday to abandon what they called an “inflammatory” resolution that purportedly documents an anti-Christian, pro-Islamic bias in world history textbooks.” (Dave Montgomery, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram) Are we still printing textbooks for Texas school kids? Why? Give every kid a laptop computer, provide access to every book that would normally be used in the classroom, and make the e-books “religion specific.” By that I mean, let…