Current Events 3.2

1).  He requested to prevent attorneys and witnesses from speaking publicly about the case.

2).  They're protesting, demanding that the president of the university (and whomever else might be involved) improve the social and academic experiences of black people on campus.

3).   Clemson, Alabama, Ohio State, and Oklahoma State are the four current teams that are predicted to play in the college football play-offs.

4).  The five platinum "biker-friendly" cities in the United States are Madison, Wisconsin, Fort Collins and Boulder, Colorado, Portland, Oregon, and Davis, California.

5).  The Hunger Games was compared to four other movies:  "Star Wars Episode VI:  Return of the Jedi," "The Lord of the Rings:  The Return of the King," "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2," and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2" (which I strongly protest to - although a part of me agrees).

6).  I think adding a layer of scrutiny to the textbooks before they make it to the classroom is a very good idea.  Textbooks affect the way students learn, and they keep these things with them for the rest of their lives (and/or it's really hard to get rid of something they've kept in their minds forever).  Also, incorrect facts in textbooks are an excuse for people to make a big deal out of things, and we don't need that kind of chaos over something so small.

I don't find the slaves being described as "workers" acceptable - at all.  It dulls down what they went through way too much, and makes it sound as though they were paid, or treated cruelly.  This kind of mistake in a textbook isn't something small like a factual error, either.  It was a very bad decision by the person who wrote it in the first place, and very offensive.

Honestly?  It should be a mixture of all of them.  Experts are needed to check facts, and regular people are needed to check for offensive comments, or things that could hurt anyone emotionally.

I have no idea if my textbooks are accurate, but I trust them to be - which is why it's a big deal that they really are accurate.  We depend on our textbooks for information, information that we keep with us.