Thomas Jefferson is relevant- TOM HAHN

My rage against Texans was mild until recently when the so-called educators who determine what the textbooks for students will teach children and since Texas orders a huge amount of books, those books will be used other states and will forever change history as we know it.
This retelling of history is sociological abuse.
As the Pulitzer Prize winning author, Edward Larson, has written to me, "if you want to control the mind, first you control the telling of history." We have seen this before. Thinking about how the Catholic Church has rewritten history and how governments write documentation that affect generations has led me to realize that this is sociological abuse. These right-wing Republicans are undermining the very foundation of this countries philosophies.
As David Knowles has written-
Texas Yanks Thomas Jefferson From Teaching Standard
(March 12) — Widely regarded as one of the most important of all the founding fathers of the United States, Thomas Jefferson received a demotion of sorts Friday thanks to the Texas Board of Education.
The board voted to enact new teaching standards for history and social studies that will alter which material gets included in school textbooks. It decided to drop Jefferson from a world history section devoted to great political thinkers.
According to Texas Freedom Network, a group that opposes many of the changes put in place by the Board of Education, the original curriculum asked students to “explain the impact of Enlightenment ideas from John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Voltaire, Charles de Montesquieu, Jean Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Jefferson on political revolutions from 1750 to the present.”
AP
The Texas Board of Education is dropping President Thomas Jefferson from a world history section devoted to great political thinkers.
That emphasis did not sit well with board member Cynthia Dunbar, who, during Friday’s meeting, explained the rationale for changing it. “The Enlightenment was not the only philosophy on which these revolutions were based,” Dunbar said.
The new standard, passed at the meeting
in a 10-5 vote, now reads, “Explain the impact of the writings of John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Voltaire, Charles de Montesquieu, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and Sir William Blackstone.”
By dropping mention of revolution, and substituting figures such as Aquinas and Calvin for Jefferson, Texas Freedom Network argues, the board had chosen to embrace religious teachings over those of Jefferson, the man who coined the phrase “separation between church and state.”

According to USA Today, the board also voted to strike the word “democratic” from references to the U.S. form of government, replacing it with the term “constitutional republic.” Texas textbooks will contain references to “laws of nature and nature’s God” in passages that discuss major political ideas.
The board decided to use the words “free enterprise” when describing the U.S. economic system rather than words such as “capitalism,” “capitalist” and “free market,” which it deemed to have a negative connotation.
Serving 4.7 million students, Texas ac- counts for a large percentage of the text- book market, and the new standards may influence what is taught in the rest of the country.