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APRIL 7, 2019 BREAKING NEWS
President Trump appeared on Fox News with Sean Hannity last night to champion efforts by the Michigan State Board of Education (MSBE) to reform how K-12 teachers teach history, civics, economics and geography in their classrooms.
An MSBE board member who declined to speak on the record said that it plans to remove all LGBT references in sections dealing with civil rights, all references to Roe v Wade and sex education, any
and all references to climate change, melting glaciers, endangered species, pollution, overpopulation, Thomas Jefferson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. “And that’s for starters,” the board member stressed.
In early drafts, MSME also attempted to delete democratic from
core democratic values, a phrase that defines the virtues of liberty, equality and diversity. Reportedly, Michigan conservatives were
upset that the words democracy and democratic are used to describe a form of government and a political party, while republican is only the name of a political party.
In a telephone interview, a Michigan Republican Party member declared, “Fair is fair. Our school textbooks should say American government, constitutional government, American republic or Republicracy. We will go to the mat to rectify this centuries-old, so-called democratic injustice.”
Rewriting history is not new or unusual. In 2015, Texas lawmakers rewrote social studies textbooks based on standards set by the Texas