{"id":32346,"date":"2018-09-15T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32346"},"modified":"2018-09-15T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T17:00:00","slug":"hey-didnt-hillary-make-history-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32346","title":{"rendered":"Hey, didn’t Hillary make ‘history’ in 2016?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I swear I thought Hillary Rodham Clinton made “history” in 2016 when she became the first female to be nominated for president of the United States by a major political party.<\/p>\n

She ran a tough race against Donald J. Trump, but lost the Electoral College vote to the 45th president of the United States.<\/p>\n

But wait! The Texas State Board of Education — a body of 15 elected politicians who represent separate districts around the state — wants to remove any historical reference to Clinton from public school textbooks.<\/p>\n

It also wants to remove any mention of Helen Keller, the social activist who became the first blind and deaf woman to earn a college degree.<\/p>\n

I’m scratching my head over this stuff.<\/p>\n

Is this the wave of the future in Texas? Are we doing to deny teaching our students about historical figures because they, um, might be unpopular or controversial?<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton also served for eight years as first lady of the United States. The was elected to the U.S. Senate from New York in 2000 and re-elected in 2006. She then served as secretary of state during President Obama’s first term.<\/p>\n

First lady, senator, secretary of state? Then she became a Democratic Party presidential nominee?<\/p>\n

That’s unworthy of study in public school curricula?<\/p>\n

The SBOE decision is a tentative one. It can reverse itself in November when it casts a final vote.<\/p>\n

I hope it does and returns these women of enormous accomplishment to the curricula to be studied by our public school students.<\/p>\n\n

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