Well I've got a bit of a surprise for all ya'll that ain't in Texas...
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives...tion=false
Quote:“What happens in Texas doesn’t stay in Texas when it comes to textbooks”
No matter where you live, if your children go to public schools, the textbooks they use were very possibly written under Texas influence. If they graduated with a reflexive suspicion of the concept of separation of church and state and an unexpected interest in the contributions of the National Rifle Association to American history, you know who to blame.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives...tion=false
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.