Controlling education is how the Theocrats stay in power. In some theocracies they shoot young girls for asking to be properly educated, in the American theocracy they use textbooks and the classroom to indoctrinate the young into the hazy shade of stupunderment. The best cure for this is to raise as many skeptical thinkers as possible. A side bar here for yet another reason why Texas is on the short list for states to jettison in order to form a more perfect union. 
Once every decade, the 15 members of the Texas Board of Education meet in Austin to revise the state
