SB 48 would require instruction in social sciences to also include a study of the role and contributions of Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, European Americans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, persons with disabilities, and other ethnic and cultural groups, to the development of California and the United States.

The LA Times makes a good point, “The bill, SB 48, adds to an overly long list of requirements, some more reasonable than others, that have been pressed upon the state’s textbooks over the years. Minority groups, the elderly and the disabled must be represented proportionally and never portrayed in a bad light. People in poor countries aren’t supposed to be shown as poor, lest they be stereotyped, and information on AIDS in Africa must not reflect negatively on the continent. So poor people aren’t poor and the elderly are physically fit and financially sound, according to the textbooks – and we complain that students are poorly educated.”

We have listened to the special interest groups so much, that we now have to make new laws that are absurd to me.Why don’t we show more interest in laws such as becoming a legal citizen, learning the language and if you want to be here, work for it. Now it seems all we do is shoot ourselves in the foot to appease the special interest groups.

I have raised my children with the traditional values that I grew up with. I am not in support of having a child being taught in school about different sexual preferences. I have raised my children to respect everyone no matter what race, sex, religion or creed of the individual. I don’t need political laws regarding respect, I have character and values which were learned by my parents and not in a class room.

Can we just stop waisting time and spending a lot of money we don’t have on these laws, just because special interest groups think we should. Wake up America, life is not always the blissful place you may want it to be. America is a great country but not without its hardships. America needs to get its backbone back and special interest groups need to stop whining and crying just because you can’t have it your way!