We won't know for sure until mid-April whether the Texas State Board of Education in its adoption of new social studies standards has eliminated Thos. Jefferson as an example of the type of thinker prominent during the Age of Enlightenment (18th century).
We also won't know for sure whether the SBOE voted to remove all mention of the Tejanos who fought and died with the Texans at the Alamo or whether students will learn the difference between a constitutional republic and a democracy and which one our country is.
Until then, there's a lot of fingerpointing online between liberals and conservatives involved in the process or who watched from the sidelines, not all of it entirely accurate.
Wait a month and then let's see what our great state has offered up to not only students in Texas public schools but public schools nationwide that base their textbook purchases on the books Texas approves for its own.
I sure hope the SBOE hasn't distorted Jefferson's life or his role in the founding of America. He's too darn important to be misconstrued. I also hope the new standards include ample time to study everyone who sacrificed their lives to defend Texas' most sacred site, the Alamo.
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