Texas ranks at bottom among border states on standards for Mexican history (cry me a rio)

http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/060606/sta_060606058.shtml ^ | Tuesday, June 6, 2006 | Associated Press

[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.

[Red Badger]

All the history of Mexico I need to know is contained in the PLACEMATS AT THE LOCAL MEXICAN RESTAURANT..........

[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.

[Cagey]

What more do we need to know?

Remember, the Alamo.

And I'd recommend seeing the film of the same name. It's fairly accurate and well done. It's no small wonder Texans are so proud of their state.

[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.

[dennisw]

Mexico is a medieval pit. The less wee know about it and the less we have to do with it, the better

[Jeff Head]

Same here, even if I do now live in Idaho...see my post 12.

[BunnySlippers]

They sold a good part of their country (just one year before the California Gold Rush) and now they're whining ...

If we hadn't bought those lands they'd be just as forsaken as the rest of Mexico.

[Jeff Head]

...and the events that led up to it...not the least of which were The Alamao, Goliad, and San Jacinto and that earlier treaty that created the new Republic of Texas in 1836.

[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.

[MeanWestTexan]

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

Why it sucks, so the mistakes are not repeated:

Socialism
Corruption
Superstition* and ignorance

being the three biggest problems.

*any Roman Catholic who thinks 90% of what passes for Catholicism in Mexico is actually Roman Catholic --- or even generically Christian --- is mistaken. It's thinnly-veiled native pagan religion with the various Saints/Virgin Mary/Jesus veneered on top.

[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