Posted on 09/08/2018 2:22:42 PM PDT by CW_Conservative
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.
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The panel said "heroic" was a "value-charged word."
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Current seventh-grade social studies curriculum standards include the "siege of the Alamo and all of the heroic defenders who gave their lives there." The advisory committee recommended cutting the phrase "and all of the heroic defenders who gave their lives there."
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Debbie Ratcliffe, spokeswoman for the Texas Education Agency, said the recommendation was made in response to complaints that curriculum standards are too long.
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Walter Buenger, a historian who specializes in Texas history at the University of Texas at Austin, said he could understand why there may be a desire to remove as subjective a descriptor as "heroic" from discussions of those involved in the battle.
"Part of the problem with the word heroic may be that it's too simplistic," he said.
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SHUT UUUUUUUP!
Barf alert was unnecessary. But the raw stupidity of the term “value-charged statement” will make many a freeper hurl chunks.
It’s clear the weak kneed members of this ridiculous PC panel has no clue of the meaning of heroic nor the sacrifice those heroic men made.
get rid of the term “social studies” it is misleading. Call it what it is: History. We’d all be better off with less use of the word ‘social’.
Build a wall around California. Have an exit in Texas, and admit any refugees who can say “the Alamo and its defenders who heroically gave their lives there” without crying. Similar phrases will be required of exits in the other border states, reflecting respect for the unique history of each. Keep the leftard disease quarantined.
I’m sure that we wouldn’t want to offend our Mexican students [of which we have far too many].
“I believe the problem is the educators being too simple minded to teach.”
No, he is just a snake trying to clothe his hatred of America in presentable dress.
Un-fricking-believable
You telling this Texan by birth that Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, William Travis et al are not Texas Heros? Gotta lot to learn you have.
They were early Nike endorsers. They believed in something even if it meant sacrificing everything. That should please the critics.
The Alamo was the American Thermopylae, a battle of knowing and extreme self-sacrifice, the goal of which was for the HEROIC defenders to buy time for their side to further mobilize against a hated, invading foe. Their goal wasn’t survival or short term victory, it was long term victory and freedom for OTHERS on their side, when the hoped-for ultimate victory was won.
Yes, those men were HEROIC. They didn’t have to be there, knowing that they wouldn’t emerge alive, but they did it anyway, for the benefit of others. Such is the very DEFINITION of heroic.
Phuk this panel, sideways with a running chainsaw.
Globalist agenda diminishing nationalistic american culture.
34 Tennesseans gave their all bravely for Texas. I’ll call them brave and heroic. Calling them anything else is a travesty and should be met with angry violent and physical punishment.
First Beto, now this, people in TX are in serious need of education!
When 200 volunteer civilian warriors hold off an army of 1,500 professional Mexican soldiers for 13 days, that is definitely HEROIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know, it seems the American people wouldn’t recognize a hero if he came to knock on their door.
Yep...Not only the 13 at the Alamo, but Sam (Raven) Houston, another Tennessean, led the Army that defeated Santa Ana at San Jacinto....
Oops...34, not 13...
It was 13 days they held off the Mexicans...
But those people on the panel probably consider Colin Kapernick and Maxine Waters and that ilk to be heroes , for stranding up to the ‘Evil Dictator Trump and his racist minions’.
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