the state board of education chooses these volunteer work groups that are made up of teachers and parents and really whoever they want to nominate. the volunteer people set up a rubric grading everything texas school children are required to learn and they gave them a number from 1 to 20 and if you didn t score well on the rubric, they recommended you be cut from the curriculum and both helen keller and hillary clinton did not score well. so they were recommended for deletion, and the board approved that on friday. so one of the things that i this has been controversial with the texas school board and textbooks for a long time. a lot of states don t develop their own textbooks. what texas publishes ends up influencing kids way beyond texas, because some states don t have the wherewithal to decide what the curriculum is going to be recreated. this is much more influential than just texas. it is. and, actually, there s an