# Doper Parents (USA Dopers, Public Schools): Do Your Kids' School Textbooks Contain Anything You Disagree With?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 10, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-usa-dopers-public-schools-do-your-kids-school-textbooks-contain-anything-you-disagree-with/979582 "2023-02-10T16:17:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-usa-dopers-public-schools-do-your-kids-school-textbooks-contain-anything-you-disagree-with/979582/21 "2023-02-17T13:39:47Z")

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Not a parent, just an uncle. But I was browsing my nephew’s science textbook and came across a page displaying a picture of an astronaut doing a spacewalk, with this caption: “As you get further from the center of the Earth, gravity decreases - until, in outer space, you’re weightless!”

I definitely objected.

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**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-usa-dopers-public-schools-do-your-kids-school-textbooks-contain-anything-you-disagree-with/979582/22 "2023-02-17T20:40:34Z")

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I’ve been very happy with the content taught in Chicago Public Schools. Obviously no truck with creationism here. At least at my son’s school, they seem to be making a very conscious effort to embrace multiculturalism, including in the teaching of American history.

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-usa-dopers-public-schools-do-your-kids-school-textbooks-contain-anything-you-disagree-with/979582/23 "2023-02-18T12:46:32Z")

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I had no complaints about my daughter’s textbooks. And New York does not have religion classes, arguing quite rightly that it’s not a function of the public schools.

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**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-usa-dopers-public-schools-do-your-kids-school-textbooks-contain-anything-you-disagree-with/979582/24 "2023-02-18T13:06:00Z")

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Just to make sure: Sophia’s religion classes occured in a Catholic school, not a state school.

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