To solve the text book problem in Texas, I think the parents and the children from Texas and maybe through out the United states should take a vote on what they would like to see in the history books. All the parents and kids have their own opinion, but it may help the board realize what is the most important thing to there buyers. There is not going to be an unbiased text book, because everyone has their own opinion in what is the most important thing their children should learn. The children may not want to learn about history, but if they have a say in what is in the books it may help them want to learn about history. There for if you take the majority of the children and parents at the high schools in Texas or even in the United States and have them vote it will be less bias as to having 15 people at the board vote for everyone.
In my opinion I think they should give the students and the parents a variety of things that the board and others in the committee believe are the most important and have them chose what they would like to see in
the history books. If we let the kids participate in choosing what they learn, they will be more willing to pay attention and want to learn in my opinion. Then their school participation may go up too. I think it matters what you include in the books, because in order to make our future better we must know what we did wrong in our past. But that puts us back to choosing what goes in the history books. Like I said before I believe the students and the parents should have a say and including the members of the board in that department.
This relates back to our summer book 1984 by George Orwell. By taking out Thomas Jefferson after a while people will forget and it will be like changing history.
I agree that the students and parents should be able to vote for what stays in the history textbooks. I didn’t even think of this as a way to solve the problem in Texas. I also agree that if the students are able to have a say in what they want to learn about that they will be more interested in learning and end up doing better in school because of this. I personally do better in school when I am interested in the topic that I am learning about. When I am able to choose a topic for a research project rather than be told what to research I am more likely to work harder because I am interested in learning about it. Although I don’t see this happening in Texas because I think that the Board of Education already has too much power in this situation.
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