Immigrant Agricultural Workers

The left-leaning SBOE watchdog Texas Freedom Network took the opportunity to highlight the board's long history of failures. “[I]t’s no accident that this happened in Texas," the group's president, Kathy Miller, said in a statement. "We have a textbook adoption process that’s so politicized and so flawed that it’s become almost a punch line for comedians. The truth is that too many elected officials who oversee that process are less interested in accurate, fact-based textbooks than they are in promoting their own political views in our kids’ classrooms.”

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Other non-Texas versions of McGraw-Hill's high-school world geography textbooks contain identical language describing slaves as "workers" who immigrated to the South as part of the Atlantic Slave Trade. And the subsequent discussion of slavery is identical, word for word, to Texas'.

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McGraw-Hill [announced] in a Facebook post on Friday afternoon that it was changing the caption in the electronic edition of the textbook, as well as in future editions.

  Dallas Observer

I can't help it. And I don't want to diminish the egregiousness of the text, but I also wonder why a 9th grader hasn't yet been taught enough grammar to match verb and subject.  The sites where I have been seeing the textbook photo have been sensitive enough to crop out the student's Twitter comment.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.