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So, incase some of you forgot, Texas got alot of backlash for their cutting or changing of words in their new textbooks.

Just wanted to start a thread, I have the new government textbook from the state and you guys could ask me questions you saw from articles.

First one ill answer is that the textbooks dont say that Moses is a founding father. They have a teaching objective that wants you to teach about individuals who had an impact on the founding American documents, of which they list Moses, William Blackwell, John Locke and Montesquieu. In the government book itself there's 2 sentences in a paragraph of early governments that bring up Moses, his impact with Israelites and how the ten commandments have impact our social and judicial systems, but that literally is all it says. It doesn't go into anymore detail than that.

Can't speak for all new history books of course, so just ask me some items you had potentially read online and ill get back to you.

that moses thing is actually worse. at least listing him as a founding father is so flagrantly wrong no one would believe it.

it said moses had some impact and no doubt he did.

how would that be worse than listing him as a founder?

ben franklin's mom had more of an impact than moses did.

She may have.

But does that mean moses didn't have impact?

we're talking high school books, right?

I admit, they probably do suck, but I just wondered why you said that.

most government approved things suck.

because there's no way of verifying if moses had any impact unless some of them said, specifically, that moses had an impact?

this is just their way of slipping in the whole "ten commandments are what our country is based on" horseshit they've been trying to get included for years.

it doesn't matter if he was a church goer. he also liked old women with huge milky tits that doesn't mean it had an impact on this country. don't teach history without evidence to verify it.