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This press release is certainly too late, but every Texan should read it and then reflect on the implications to freedom and democracy:

SBOE Press Conference Media Advisory

Contact: Dan Arellano at 512-826-7569

First it was Cesar Chavez then Thurgood Marshall and if we allow this trend to continue the current State Board of Education could also exclude the Native Americans, the Spanish and Mexican Colonial periods, etc. And according to them they will not teach about the Camino Real, Spanish Missions, Jose Antonio Navarro, Juan Seguin, Jose de Escandon, Lorenzo de Zavala, Jose Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara, the Green Flag Republic or the Battle of Medina in other words we do not exist and the contributions of our ancestors are not significant enough to be taught in our public schools.

Dan Arellano Author/Historian

Vice President LULAC Council 4882

Co-Chairman Unidos de Austin

Then consider this article excerpt:

…advocacy groups are protesting the lack of Latino historical figures required for study in the curriculum standards’ current draft. “It’s as if we don’t exist,” Rep. Norma Chávez, D-El Paso, told the board in November.

The omission is significant for two reasons. Curriculum changes come around every 10 or so years. Whatever changes the SBOE makes to the social studies requirements when it takes a final vote in the spring are permanent until the current group of first-graders in the state’s public schools are nearly ready to graduate from high school. And that group of first-graders? For the past two years, Latino children have made up a majority of the class statewide. They will have precious few examples of Latino contributions to history, particularly those in Texas, in their textbooks…there is no victory if Texas schoolchildren have an incomplete picture of history. It’s a faulty foundation, one on which an education can’t thrive.

Source: MySan Antonio.com

via Educational Equity, Politics, and Policy in Texas

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