Joe Beckmann Somerville, MA @ 05:11AM PT Nov 20

While, historically, the Texas School Depository has a doubly significant role in American politics as well as American education, that latter influence is waning, not only because ... it's Texas! but also because texts (Texan or not) are also waning. And the current press for testing and for "race to the top" junk is clearly targeting even further decline as the "text" for the next century - with or without teacher assents - is becoming the internet.

I think that's just great because Texas will always have waves of reaction and waves of reform - the state is marginally the poorest and richest in the nation, and its politics vacillate from the Age of Johnson (more like Daley than Bloomberg), to the Age of Perry (more like Alabama than California). The Barton influence merely marks a high water drowning of the Perry peril. Get rid of him!

thom danfield Arroyo Grande, CA @ 10:02PM PT Nov 15

Leave it to Texas (excepting Austin) to lead us down the path of social regression and knowledge suppression.  If I'm not mistaken, Texas is also the state with the highest execution rate in the country while being the most unwilling to reopen or re-examine cases where there has been obvious abuse and failure of the "judicial" process.  The old saying that "the rich NEVER hang" is epitomized in Texas. 

Yeah, let good old Texas decide what is fact, fair, and truly worthy history ! ! !

Pamela Grigg Tallahassee, FL @ 09:11AM PT Oct 31

Censorship and discrimination will only separate our world at a time when we must all come together to solve critical issues which impact all of us, i.e. global warming, homelessness, poverty, abuse against all members and creatures of society, etc. A Librarian for over 20 years I will never condone censorship!!! Take a look at the American Library Association Bill of Rights.

Msgr. Weldon Bowling, Ob.OSB @ 10:27AM PT Oct 26

Censorship of material pertaining to LGBT should never be made due to the fact that sexual orientation is a part of a normal society and has been for thousands of years. It is a normal part of todays society and has become a social justice item. Banning material on this subject should never be tolerated.

Ben Oscarsito My Hometown, Sweden @ 01:09AM PT Sep 17

Censorship is slavery!

Julie Greenspan San Diego, CA @ 07:55AM PT Sep 02
Pledge fulfilled Sep 02!

Texas wants to rewrite History?  Wanna bet they misspell all the big words?

Great pledge, Christina!  Thank you for bringing it to our attention.

Steve Rose @ 10:13AM PT Aug 22

Texas has an inglorious history of American history censorship.  One family--names forgotten--used the proportional # of Presidential pictures in a text to determine its suitability.

Wesley Soucie Battle Ground, WA @ 10:14PM PT Aug 21

A free America can not tolorate censorship!

Michele McCowan Paradise Valley, MT @ 01:20PM PT Aug 01

Thanks for this pledge!

Censorship is wrong in many ways, and I hope that it stops on the Animal Rights blog on change.org as well. Time to start a petition over there. We are SO tired of having our opinions and comments deleted and censored by the "host".

Blocking people out of history books or deleting comments by passionate activists all comes from the same type of power struggle and control from the people at the "top" making decisions for people on what they can and cannot read or learn.

I am all for keeping our freedom of speech and stopping censorship- in books, and at change.org.

Joycey Berry Canton, NC @ 06:17PM PT Jul 25

Thank you for making the pledge "Say NO to Censorship - Let's Not Rewrite American History"

Thank you for telling the Texas Board of Education not to remove Cesar Chavez,Thurgood Marshall and other significant figures from school books