There is currently a commission of "educators" in Texas to make recommendations on social studies curriculum. Several commission members (an evangelical minister and the former vice chairman of the Texas Republican Party) evidently want to remove Cesar Chavez and Thurgood Marshall from the curriculum.
Conservatives say Texas social studies classes give too much credit to civil rights leaders
But this recommendation really cracked me up:
Barton, a former vice chairman of the Texas Republican Party, said that because the U.S. is a republic rather than a democracy, the proper adjective for identifying U.S. values and processes should be "republican" rather than "democratic." That means social studies books should discuss "republican" values in the U.S., his report said.
Ah....that conservative concern for our kids education is touching!