Texas history textbook ban
The Texas Board of Education has rejected the history textbook Out of Many, A History of the American People from use in state high schools. The Board objected to a section about prostitution in early Western towns. "In cattle towns, many women worked as prostitutes. Like most cowboys, most prostitutes were unmarried and in their teens and 20s. Often fed up with underpaid jobs in dressmaking or domestic service, they found few alternatives to prostitution in the cattle towns." The Board complained that the section exaggerates frontier prostitution and is inappropriate for high school students. One of the book's authors calls the decision "right-wing political correctness."
