You may have seen reports, like this one by the Associated Press, about a proposed Mexican-American studies textbook that will be submitted to the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) for approval and use in the state’s public schools.
That textbook is already generating controversy. Cursory reviews of the book show that it includes troubling passages like this one:
“Chicanos…adopted a revolutionary narrative that opposed Western civilization and wanted to destroy this society.”
Just as troubling is who is behind this text. Cynthia Dunbar, a former SBOE member who believes public education is a “subtle tool of perversion” and the separation of church and state is a myth, owns the company that submitted this book. Dunbar doesn’t have any qualifications to create a Mexican-American studies textbook. And neither do her buddies at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University who helped her write this book.
We’ve known for some time that this book may be coming. And we’ve also known that Dunbar’s company was behind it. And as TFN has done with all textbook adoptions likely to be targeted by political activists like Dunbar, we prepared by lining up scholars and experts in the relevant field to review this book.
That process is ongoing and we hope to bring you the results soon.
Rest assured, before this is all said and done, we will make sure that experts in Mexican-American studies have thoroughly vetted every line of this book. We have no intention of letting Dunbar’s skewed version of history end up in Texas classrooms.
We will of course keep you posted on this.
