[P-40]

We know south of the border sucks. What more do we need to know?

[rawcatslyentist]

"It's as if many states were not aware that there are countries and cultures south of the Rio Grande," Petrilli said."

Which culture would that be? The one that had human sacrifices, and canabalism, or the current socialist slavery one?

I have to agree, we need to teach just how inferior and terrible these arcane forms of culture ARE!

[Ben Mugged]

All the history of Mexico I need to know is contained in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo......

[Ptaz]

History education is often slanted to the preferences of the instructor. I challenge most of you to question their kids about their last completed history course and see how far it went. Often the instructor gets mired down in what interests them many times never getting to the 20th Century or much further than the Civil War. That is why many kids don't know much about Mexican history, or World War I or World War II, korea or Vietnam.

[VOA]

Texas ranks at bottom among border states on standards for Mexican history

That's just Southern courtesy.
No need to remind the immigrant students (especially the illegal ones)
from Mexico what a loser country they have fled.
Especially the part where a band of less than 10,000 marches up the
same road from Veracruz to Mexico City and takes the country.
TWICE.
(Cortes and then the US Army)

[ncountylee]

Texas uses a "spiraling curriculum" to teach world history

So that's what administrators are paid for. Inventing new ways to say nothing.

[lormand]

Proud Texan Here

[Paleo Conservative]

They have to understand that our standards are written in strands," Hardy said. "Students have been exposed all along the way to all aspects of the history, the government, the economics, the culture of the world. I think it's brilliant. The Fordham Institute doesn't know jack about teaching."

[Jeff Head]

Texas ranked lowest among the nation's four southern border states in its standards for teaching Latin American and Mexican history

Let's see...The Mexican 1824 Constitution, it's betrayal, Santa Anna, The Alamo, Goliad, San Jacinto and the surrender of Santa Anna. Texas as a nation 1836 to 1845 and then the US-MExican War starting in 1846 once Texas joined the Union. The defeat and occupation of Mexico and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848.

That history was taught me as a child in Texas...and it said all that needed to be said IMHO.

[hispanarepublicana]

"cry me a rio".
LOL. That's funny.
I'll take Texas History, thank you very much. (Aren't we one of the only states that teaches as many years of Texas history as we do?) I think it makes all the difference between Texas' conservativism.

[sgtbono2002]

So where do they stand in teaching American history, If the Mexicans want to learn Mexican History they can go back to mexico and learn all they like.

[NewHampshireDuo]

I think I remember what I was taught about Mexican history back quite a few years ago:

It's the country just south of the USA
They won a battle then we crushed them
Thank God you live here and not there

[EyeGuy]

"Texas ranks at bottom among border states on standards for Mexican history."

I wonder how the border territories of Mexico rank on standards for United States history....

[The_Victor]

"They have to understand that our standards are written in strands," Hardy said. "Students have been exposed all along the way to all aspects of the history, the government, the economics, the culture of the world. I think it's brilliant. The Fordham Institute doesn't know jack about teaching."

Ouch, that's gonna leave a mark.

hehehehehehe

[dman4384]

Who cares about Mexican history?

Gheesh.

Kids need to be taught that it borders our country, and that millions of Mexicos citizens are living here illegally.

Spend the rest of the time teaching kids about our history and how we need to protect our heritage by keeping undersireables from Mexico out.

[FortWorthPatriot]

Shouldn't it be "Lloras un río"?

[al_c]

Texas ranked lowest among the nation's four southern border states in its standards for teaching Latin American and Mexican history, according to a national study released Monday.

We don't teach German history either. Or Czech ... or Asian ...

[SaxxonWoods]

I know that my great uncle 4 times removed, Erastus "Deaf" Smith fired the first shot at the Battle of San Jacinto. Santa Anna was surprised because he was still in bed with a mulatto prostitute. She is the meaning of the famous song "The Yellow Rose of Texas." Deaf was just back from burning a bridge, and as a result Santa Anna was trapped in the area and captured the next day wearing woman's clothing. Probably one that Yellow Rose's dresses.

Deaf was a little pissed, as he had recently helped bury the burned bodies of those who defended the Alamo, including Richard Miller, another of my ancestors.

Remember the Alamo, indeed.

[El Gato]

The Fordham Institute doesn't know jack about teaching

Spoken like a true Texan. Yee Haw!

[RobbyS]

I agree that Texas students needs to know that Mexico has been a mess since 1820, that there were only a handful of Mexican inside what is now the United States in 1836 when Texas won its Independence. That the Revolution of 1910 established a quasi-socialist government that vests most of the wealth of the country in the hands of a few thousand families.