The worst Texas social studies standard?
The Texas Board of Education proposed...
Calling the country’s slave trade the "Atlantic triangular trade." That refers to the trade system that included the American colonies, Europe and Africa, which, if drawn on a map with arrows from place to place, certainly looks like a triangle. The proposal is correct on the geometric merits.
On historical and moral merits, however, it fails miserably. Trying to whitewash the country’s ugly past is itself ugly, and dangerous.
Valerie Strauss via http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/history/the-worst-texas-social-studies.html
This proposal was approved and then later rescinded.
