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HAVE EXCITING NEWS ON THE FIGHT AGAINST ISLAM-BIASED TEXTBOOKS!
As
a result of CFNS efforts - and for the first time as far as anyone
related to these K-12 textbook issues knows - a major publisher, Pearson
Prentice Hall, had to correct the content of an already printed flawed
textbook that it intended to sell to a huge school district in Florida,
and reprint it, before it could be purchased. CFNS
fought hard for the corrections, and they accepted them!
The
new 2013 high-school history book, “World History,” was
slated for delivery to Palm Beach County (PBC) students for use at the
beginning of the current school year. After documenting its pro-Muslim
slant many months earlier, CFNS participated in a marathon meeting with
PBC curriculum specialists and a Pearson representative to delineate
our concerns and recommend corrections. Following that, I personally
testified about the book’s bias before the PBC School Board. After
further review, the Board concurred with the CFNS position, and
determined that much of the textbook’s contentious language be revised,
consistent with CFNS’s recommendations, as a condition for purchase.
Because
the textbook had to be reprinted, students didn’t have a world history
text until well into last fall. Clearly, their wait to get one with
correct information was worth it!
Palm
Beach County is the 11th largest school district in the country.
Getting the agenda-driven content removed was undoubtedly a huge win.
Of even greater significance, however, is the precedent that CFNS
has now established for others in Florida, and nationwide, for dealing
with these tainted textbooks.
As
you may recall, CFNS had previously spearheaded the rejection of
another egregious textbook in PBC, “World History: Patterns of
Interaction,” published by Houghton-Mifflin. And we were a major
player in correcting the content of a similarly flawed McGraw-Hill
geography textbook, “World Geography and Cultures,” intended for
the district.
We
are proud to be our country’s leader in the struggle to rid K-12
public-school classrooms of Islam-biased textbooks - and getting
unequaled results. But it’s going to be a long, uphill battle, and we
can’t stay in it without financial support.
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