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Thread #155384   Message #3658544
Posted By: Lighter
08-Sep-14 - 04:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Special thread on Evolution & religion
Subject: RE: BS: Special thread on Evolution & religion
> we have textbooks that don't preach in our history line but they aren't bought by your schools.

This comment shows (surprise!) that educational publishers may be more interested in $$$$$ than in education.

Textbooks tailored to heavily fundamentalists states like Texas have been a problem for almost as long as I can remember. They buy so many books that it's can be too costly for some publishers to print anything the locals might object to. (That includes a "liberal" slant on American history.)

Local school boards (made up of local parents and teachers) purchase (and reject) whatever books they wish. If a fundamentalist history book is likely to bring in extra $$$$$, the publishers are happy to provide it. After all, if they don't, their competitors will.

This foolishness essentially disappears at the college level - except for a number of small private colleges that pride themselves on their fundamentalism.