Can We Please Give Texas Back to Mexico?

Texas has a law requiring that if a school has books about "controversial issues" they also have to carry books taking the opposite side, so they school has to carry books saying that there is no racism, that slavery is good, that homosexuals need to be burned at the state, and, apparently, they need to carry books either denying the existence of the Holocaust, or books that say that the Holocaust was a good thing.

At least, that is the case in Southlake Texas, just north of Dallas and Ft. Worth:

A top administrator with the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake advised teachers last week that if they have a book about the Holocaust in their classroom, they should also offer students access to a book from an “opposing” perspective, according to an audio recording obtained by NBC News.

Gina Peddy, the Carroll school district’s executive director of curriculum and instruction, made the comment Friday afternoon during a training session on which books teachers can have in classroom libraries. The training came four days after the Carroll school board, responding to a parent’s complaint, voted to reprimand a fourth grade teacher who had kept an anti-racism book in her classroom.

A Carroll staff member secretly recorded the Friday training and shared the audio with NBC News.

“Just try to remember the concepts of [House Bill] 3979,” Peddy said in the recording, referring to a new Texas law that requires teachers to present multiple perspectives when discussing “widely debated and currently controversial” issues. “And make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust,” Peddy continued, “that you have one that has an opposing, that has other perspectives.”

“How do you oppose the Holocaust?” one teacher said in response.

“Believe me,” Peddy said. “That’s come up.”

At first, I thought that the Ms. Peddy was just a horrible person, but rather, she has the worst job in the world, she has to make accommodations in the curriculum to the parents in the district, some of whom are no doubt wacko, my parents are first cousins, X-Files wannabe, black helicopter, tinfoil hat wearing, stupid, dim-witted, thinks pro wrestling is real^* nut jobs.

I rather imagine that she has to tell her teachers to carry flat earth books as well.

We really need to give Texas back to Mexico, or to Spain, or to France, or maybe sell it at a garage sale.

^*Sorry, I think that I just channeled the comedian Denis Leary.