I'd like to know the actual full quote. Thanks.

so I don't know if it was a complete quote or what she took from the lesson the textbook was teaching, but it's pretty scary to me regardless. She held onto that from a textbook she read two years ago. And she's been raised in a family of liberal Democrats, but she held onto that anyway.

Just wanted a 2nd hand version, not a 3rd hand from a 4th grader. Thanks.

When they were going over the lesson. Either way, it wouldn't be too hard to get your hands on the textbook and check. Know any 4th graders?

Can she remember a phrase (not necessarily that one)? Do you remember what the cover looked like? It could help on a search for the book.

My wild-ass guess is that the book didn't actually say that, but it may be the impression she got (possibly with the "help" of an editorializing teacher).

with some comment about Republicans giving power to the people.

And that the teacher (shame on them) made it seem so true that your daughter remembers it as being in the book?

Our memories work that way, and teachers to a fourth grader are bastions of knowledge and accuracy.

This one should be fired.

or seen every text book used, of course, I have taught in more than one, over a span of decades; one state being California, which is big enough to drive text book company offerings.

I've never seen a textbook for 4th graders that addressed political parties in any way. I've never seen a set of state content standards for 4th grade that mentioned political parties anywhere.

Not that I haven't seen some ridiculous stuff in text books. Nothing like that, though.

I think it might actually be this one http://www.teachtci.com/programs/elementary/social-studies-alive-textbook/our-community-and-beyond/table-of-contents.html

that's a normal part of most curriculum at 2nd/3rd grade ("Our Community," expanding into state-wide material in 4th.)

I guess it's all about how citizenship is addressed; that link doesn't give access to actual text.

I would get the Democratic Party of your state to sue for that book to be oou the window. The problem is that almost all text books are published in Texas.

my suggestion was for if that was actual fact.

but it's very unlikely the textbook said anything like this...she may be remembering the general impression she took away from the class.

I'm not accusing your daughter of lying. she picked that up somewhere, I just don't buy that it was in her 4th grade history book.

In any case, it shouldn't be hard for you to find out for sure. Just find out the name of the textbook that was used from the school.

Regardless of why she came away with that understanding, that was conveyed to her in some way and needs to be debunked.

I would look up the teacher's website (if the school is online, which most are) and see if she has the book listed. Most teachers do.

Yet, they want to be able to enforce it on others.