Texas Board of Education cuts Thomas Jefferson out

The Texas Board of Education has been meeting at various times throughout the week to discuss whether or not Thomas Jefferson should be included in the text books that are taught at the schools in the state. It has bee argued that many of the things that the students are exposed to in studying and researching Thomas Jefferson can be detrimental to the growing mind, and that all mentions of him other than those that are required to know the history of the country, should be removed from the text books.

One of the main points that has been made during these meetings is that the study of Thomas Jefferson exposes students to “transvestites and transexuals” as the cliff notes from the meetings read. The argument here is that the text book referred to sex and gender as social constructs, and they felt it would be more appropriate if their children were not exposed to these things.
The ruling was to remove Thomas Jefferson from all of the text books that are taught at schools within Texas. In his stead, many of the books would replace the sections that spoke of Thomas Jefferson with John Calvin. John Calvin was a religious right wing icon for dozens of years, and has a rich and detailed history in the United States.
The board also removed the word ‘democratic’ from all texts that described the structure of the US government. In its stead, they would replace the word with “constitutional republic” which was ruled by the Texas Board of Education as a much more direct phrase that better describes the way that the United States government works.

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