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00:03Come can the Texas Board of Education
00:05have the power to change textbooks
00:07really all over the entire country?
00:09Why does this matter to the rest of us?
00:10Texas and California are the two biggest textbook purchasers
00:14in the country. Whatever textbooks
00:15they select, the rest of the country follows.
00:21You have a gatekeeper
00:23that you have to get past to get to the market.
00:25In Texas, the gatekeeper is the standards
00:27of the State Board of Education Review.
00:28I would like to strike towards
00:30women and minority.
00:32A motion to insert the name Hussein
00:35in between Barack Obama.
00:37I would like to delete
00:38hip-hop and insert
00:40country music.
00:42Is there a second?
00:50If you want to control and shape
00:52the politics of a state,
00:54controlling and shaping what students learn in public
00:56schools from age 5 through age 18
00:58is a really, really smart strategy.
01:00Don McElroy has,
01:03since being appointed chair of the State Board
01:04of Education, really been a lightning rod.
01:07You don't claim that dinosaurs and humans
01:09walk side by side, do you?
01:12Of course I do.
01:13Dinosaurs were on the ark?
01:15Yes. Yes, that's what I would teach.
01:17I'm going to do the best I can to help
01:19forward those ideas.
01:20This is about the content of what kids
01:22in Texas public schools learn from age 5 to 18.
01:26It will change the face of our state
01:29for decades to come.
01:30What you are discussing now is whether you will
01:32teach the denigration of evolution.
01:34I disagree with these experts.
01:36Somebody's got to stand up to experts.
01:39What about dinosaurs?
01:40Were dinosaurs on the ark?
01:42Sure they were.
01:43We don't know.
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