Don’t Mess With Texas: they’re doing a good job all on their own.

When people say “everything is bigger in Texas”, they can’t be referring to the brains.  The Houston Chronicle is reporting that the Texas State Board of Education has appointed “review committees” made up largely of active and retired school teachers to draft new social studies curriculum standards as well as six “expert reviewers” to help draft new standards for public school history textbooks.

The standards, which will be decided upon next spring, will revise history, civics and geography textbooks.  The first draft for proposed standards in United States History Studies Since Reconstruction says students should be expected “to identify significant conservative advocacy organizations and individuals, such as Newt Gingrich, Phyllis Schlafly and the Moral Majority.”

Conspicuously absent is any voice of the liberal opposition, and earlier this year, a panel of right-wing “experts” recommended a report urging the 15 member committee stacked with ten Republicans to remove biographies of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Stephen F. Austin, and César Chávez , and replace them with history about the “motivational role the Bible and the Christian faith played in the settling of the original colonies.”

As it stands, students would get “one-sided, right wing ideology,” said Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, chairman of the House Mexican American Caucus.  “We ought to be focusing on historical significance and historical figures. It’s important that whatever course they take, that it portray a complete view of our history and not a jaded view to suit one’s partisan agenda or one’s partisan philosophy,” he said.

I would ask you, where is that Texas spirit?  Are you going to allow these bureaucrats to proceed in their revolution of cognitive deficiency of your kids?  Remember the Alamo? Oh, right, that’s probably not possible.  Davey Crockett was a Democrat.