Caught a story on Fox News' website yesterday about how special interest groups influence school textbooks. This has been standard for lo these many years for science and history texts, I knew, but these two paragraphs caught my eye:

"...In California, for example, health food activists convinced California lawmakers to outlaw mention of 'foods of low nutritive value' in its schoolbooks.

"That means the short story previously called 'A Perfect Day for Ice Cream' is now called 'A Perfect Day.' The reference to an ice-cream shop excursion has been edited out, and math word problems have been revised so that items like lollipops and candy bars are not included to teach kids arithmetic."

Structured play and adult supervision for games instead of just getting to run around and be kids, and now you can't even talk about going out and getting a treat? More and more I'm glad I'm not a child growing up today!

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. . . . . noted and logged by Linda at 7:56:00 AM

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