No matter where you live, if your children go to public schools, the textbooks they use were very possibly written under Texas influence. If they graduated with a reflexive suspicion of the concept of separation of church and state and an unexpected interest in the contributions of the National Rifle Association to American history, you know who to blame.The author provides some information on one method used by the One Percent to dumb down public school education that children of the 99 Percent receive. Ideas and knowledge can be very powerful; thus the political operatives of the One Percent work hard to make sure that they control this "education" to serve their interests which broadly speaking is a public that is incapable of critical thinking.
Textbooks in US public schools are being screened by some of the most reactionary elements of the One Percent ruling class such as these three Texas State Board of Education members Cynthia Dunbar, Barbara Cargill, and Gail Lowe discussing curriculum standards, Austin, May 2008....
See also this and this.