The social studies curriculum for seventh graders in Texas learning about the Alamo could reportedly face some new changes, at least one of which has drawn the ire of the governor.
Removing the word “heroic” to describe those who protected the Alamo was among the items included in a report penned by an advisory panel to the State Board of Education on how to structure the curriculum, Dallas News reported on Friday.
As it stands now, curriculum phrasing of the topic is the “siege of the Alamo and all of the heroic defenders who gave their lives there,” according to the outlet.
However, the word in question was reportedly described as being “value-charged” and the panel has suggested doing away with everything except the “siege of the Alamo.”
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Republican Gov. Greg Abbott took a firm stance on the proposition, arguing that the “political correctness in our schools” needed to “stop.”
“Stop political correctness in our schools. Of course Texas schoolchildren should be taught that Alamo defenders were ‘Heroic’!” Abbott said in a tweet. “I fully expect the State Board of Education to agree. Contact your SBOE Member to complain.”
State land commissioner George P. Bush took issue with another point of the proposition, which wanted to do away with a mandate for students to describe “the Travis Letter,” penned by Lt. Col. William Barrett Travis in the midst of the fight, the Dallas News reported.
“This politically correct nonsense is why I’ll always fight to honor the Alamo defenders’ sacrifice,” Bush tweeted. “His letter & the defenders’ actions must remain at the very core of TX history teaching. This is not debatable to me.”
The panel’s suggestion stems from an idea that educators can instead include the letter as part of a broader lesson on the Alamo, the outlet reported.
State Board of Education Chairwoman Donna Bahorich on Friday tweeted that she was not in favor of "deleting one of the most iconic letters in US History for 7th grade." Her post was re-tweeted by the Texas State Board of Education.
Following criticisms about extensive curriculum requirements, the proposition was created as a means to re-organize it, Debbie Ratcliffe, spokeswoman for the Texas Education Agency, told the Dallas News, adding that they tried to weigh considerations by whether something could "be reduced by either deleting information, combining standards or clarifying.”
“That was the goal,” Ratcliffe continued. “They suggested deleting the Travis letter because they think when teachers talk about the Alamo they will absolutely mention it, but not having it outlined specifically just meant teachers would spend less time on it.”
According to a tweet from the Board of Education, public hearings on social studies standards are set to be held on Tuesday. A vote on the issue will occur in November, the Dallas News reported.
#1: Justified To: All (#0)
Please. He would be very happy to remove it and destroy the Alamo if the truth be known. This is all about setting out data so when he runs for governor or president he can claim see im not a PC commie bitch but in reality he is just another lefty hoping to turn America into a socialist commie state!
Justified posted on 2018-09-08 11:35:01 Reply Private Reply
#2: VxH To: Justified (#1)
Where the super geniuses tried to delete Thomas Jefferson from the curriculum on the age of enlightenment's thinkers?
{golf clap} for Golf Hat "conservatism".
VxH posted on 2018-09-08 11:46:26 Reply Private Reply
#3: Justified To: VxH (#2)
Half story or basically a lie.
No way Texas conservatives want to remove valuable history.
I really think children should read the "federalist papers" and "Anti-Federalist Papers" for government studies. That way children know why we have the government we have. Why we have the constitution and bill of rights.
Justified posted on 2018-09-08 12:05:07 Reply Private Reply
#4: VxH To: Justified (#3)
Whose idea was that?
VxH posted on 2018-09-08 12:22:41 Reply Private Reply
#5: Justified To: VxH (#4)
FF. So?
Justified posted on 2018-09-08 12:30:22 Reply Private Reply
#6: VxH To: Justified (#5)
LOL.
Yeah. Thanks for illustrating the Chabadnik-Kabbalist In Chief and his cult's command over the Moral First Principles that made America Great.
VxH posted on 2018-09-08 12:42:42 Reply Private Reply
#7: Justified To: VxH (#6)
If you can stop with the crazy and use words it would be nice.
Yes as a Christian I would like this to be 100% Christian nation but in reality all you have to do is look about Rome to see it doesn't work so well.
Justified posted on 2018-09-08 12:53:52 Reply Private Reply
#8: Hondo68 To: Justified, GHW Bush-GP Bush 2020, *2020 The Likely Suspects* (#0)
Mike Pence's replacement in 2020, Vice President G. Pee Bush (the little brown one).
Poppy is eager for his second term as prez, with Pee Baby as VP.
Herbie Bush/Prescot Bush 2020!
Hondo68 posted on 2018-09-08 13:15:04 Reply Private Reply
#9: VxH To: Justified (#7)
VxH posted on 2018-09-08 19:24:46 Reply Private Reply
#10: sneakypete To: hondo68 (#8)
Do his arrest records still exist,or have they been purged?
sneakypete posted on 2018-09-08 20:31:38 Reply Private Reply