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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: rangerrebew on September 09, 2018, 11:51:30 am

Title: Don't call the Alamo's defenders 'heroic,' Texas school curriculum panel urges
Post by: rangerrebew on September 09, 2018, 11:51:30 am

 Don't call the Alamo's defenders 'heroic,' Texas school curriculum panel urges
 
Written by
 
Rebekah Allen, Texas government reporter
 

AUSTIN — A panel advising the State Board of Education on what seventh-graders should learn in their social studies courses has urged deleting the label "heroic" from a curriculum standard about the Alamo's defenders.

The proposed tweak to a directive about what teachers should teach about Texas history and the state's most iconic battle infuriated several state politicians, including Gov. Greg Abbott, who characterized the nonbinding advice as political correctness run amok.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2018/09/07/dont-call-alamos-defenders-heroic-texas-school-curriculum-panel-urges (https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2018/09/07/dont-call-alamos-defenders-heroic-texas-school-curriculum-panel-urges)

Title: Re: Don't call the Alamo's defenders 'heroic,' Texas school curriculum panel urges
Post by: rangerrebew on September 09, 2018, 11:52:50 am

But you had damn well better call Colin Kaepernick "heroic!" :3: