Texas education board retreats on stripping 'heroic' Alamo defenders from curriculum
Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick accuse panel of political correctness run wild
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By James Varney - The Washington Times - Wednesday, September 12, 2018
The Texas State Board of Education appears to have decided the heroism of the Alamo is worth teaching to students after all.
State politicians erupted in protest this month after a volunteer team of educators, looking for ways to “streamline†the state’s social studies curriculum, recommended scrubbing references to “all the heroic defenders†at the Alamo from classroom teaching plans.
Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, both Republicans, accused the panel of allowing the dictates of political correctness to run wild and demanded that Texans call the board to complain.
Rep. Ted Poe showed up personally before the board on Tuesday to demand respect for history. He quoted from William B. Travis’ letter to “the people of Texas and all the Americans in the world†seeking reinforcements for about 200 men holed up at the Alamo Mission in 1836, making a doomed stand against a Mexican army about 10 times that size led by Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.
The board, having been sufficiently chastened, voted Wednesday to maintain references to heroism — but with an additional nod to diversity.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/12/alamo-heroic-defenders-stay-texas-school-curriculu/
