What prompted the mass exodus of students from Paris schools was the reintroduction of dinosaurs back into the science curriculum—the subject had been previously removed in 1972 due to the volume of parent complaints. I heard from the other teachers that the homeschool parents got together and wrote their own textbook. Janet Crabtree—American history—got her hands on a copy and called it “the kind of book you’d find in a Cracker Jack box: completely devoid of substance and slightly racist.”
