Houston Mayor Condmemns "Mexican American Heritage" Textbook

[Jimbo101]

Houston Chronicle

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner on Tuesday called on the Texas State Board of Education to reject a controversial textbook on Mexican heritage that the board is considering for use during the 2017 school year.

In a letter to the board, Turner said he has read portions of the Momentum Instruction, LLC tome, titled "Mexican American Heritage," as well as reviews by subject matter experts.

"In short, I find this textbook to be offensive," Turner said in a prepared statement. "The purpose of instructional material is not to undermine our educational system, to push an ideological agenda or to disseminate inaccuracies, stereotypes and errors about our collective history."

The mayor's office cited an excerpt from the text, which contrasted "driven" industrialists with Mexican laborers, whom the text states were "not reared to put in a full day's work so vigorously."

History professors and advocates have called the textbook offensive and have said they identified at least three errors per page in the 500-page work. A committee convened by a state board of education trustee identified at least 68 factual errors in the book.

The book is the sole Mexican-American history text up for approval before the Texas Board of Education this year after the state approved courses in the subject. The state received no other proposed texts.

[malaise]

1. The RWs control text books

They make up the shit they believe and then expect others to follow. I am so fugging sick of these racist revisionists.

[Eleanors38]

3. This kind of RW shit-slinging racism has plagued textbook adoption in Texas

for decades; now, it's worse than ever with the kind of crap you read about in the days of vacuum tubes and 78 records. Houston is one of the few places where any objection to RW hegemony will get a listen. Kudos to the Mayor.

[narnian60]

2. Bravo, Mayor Turner.

Thank you, for doing a fantastic job. You are so approachable, and you really care about the people of this city.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Obviously the authors never watched a Mexican crew put on a roof. They

worked 14 hour days in 96 degree temperatures on mine. Turned down by 7 companies because of how steep the roof on my 1859 house is.

No group works as hard as those of Mexican heritage.

[world wide wally]

6. Same thing on my roof

Tear off and finish (with flashing, tar, etc...) done in two days

[SaintLouisBlues]

7. Siesta? What siesta? Mexican work longest hours in world (Washinton Post 2011)

According to a report issued last month by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Mexicans devote an average of 10 hours per day to paid and unpaid work, such as housework.

The Belgians — bless them — work the least. About seven hours.

The Japanese, followed by the South Koreans and Chinese, work the most paid hours in a day, though they devote fewer hours to unpaid work, such as cooking, cleaning, caring and shopping for the household. Americans fall in the middle, though they spend the least time cooking (30 minutes), especially compared with the Turks, who put in 74 minutes at the stove. OECD members include much of the developed world, alongside still-developing nations such as Mexico, India, China and South Africa.

When the OECD report made the news here, and quickly became the subject of talk radio in the capital, many Mexicans agreed it was finally time to put the stereotype of the “manana” culture to bed. If many people think of the Japanese doing jumping jacks at Toyota plants, the popular image of Mexico has been that of the sleepy campesino in his sombrero taking a siesta.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/siesta-what-siesta-mexican-work-longest-hours-in-world/2011/04/27/AF3O0yTF_story.html

[dhol82]

5. What a bunch of humps!

What is it with these crazies at the board of education?

Racist hatred much?