Texas Drops Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller from State History Curriculum

You may not have thought 2016 Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was a strong candidate, but she did break the glass ceiling for others, and will be memorialized in history everywhere. Let’s check that, everywhere but Texas?

In that can only be called as ‘odd,’ the Texas State Board of Education pass a vote this past week to remove mentions of Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller from the state’s mandatory history curriculum. The effort by the state of Texas schoolboard is to be more selective on how to ‘streamline’ the historical information taught in Texas statewide social studies curriculum, a part of the governing history classes for some 5.4 million schoolchildren.

The board was asked to vote on a scale of 1-20 a list of important or current news makers for the purpose of ranking their importance in how history is taught in Texas. Evidently being the 1st woman Presidential candidate didn’t rate high enough to remain in high school history books????? Helen Keller was ranked only a little but higher than Hillary, but both may be historical figures the state of Texas students will not learn about moving forward.

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