{"id":32343,"date":"2018-09-15T16:14:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T16:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32343"},"modified":"2018-09-15T16:14:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T16:14:10","slug":"sboe-switches-gears-they-were-heroes-at-the-alamo-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32343","title":{"rendered":"SBOE switches gears: They were ‘heroes’ at the Alamo after all"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Texas State Board of Education came to its senses, with a little push from Gov. Greg Abbott.<\/p>\n

The SBOE had voted tentatively to remove the term “hero” from its description of the men who died at the Alamo in 1836. Hey, we all know that they died heroically<\/em> while defending the mission against superior Mexican armed forces.<\/p>\n

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The board of education, though, almost knuckled under to some form of “political correctness” by deciding they weren’t heroes after all. Abbott said the SBOE should resist such PC activity. Late this week, the 15-member elected board reversed itself and said the heroes at the Alamo will be labeled as such in Texas public school curricula.<\/p>\n

I’m not a native Texan, but I certainly accepted the idea long ago that the men who died in the Alamo battle were heroes. That’s how we were taught in Oregon when I was growing up and studying these historic events.<\/p>\n

I’m glad that the SBOE has declared what the rest of us knew already: Those men were heroes.<\/p>\n\n

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The Texas State Board of Education came to its senses, with a little push from Gov. Greg Abbott. The SBOE had voted tentatively to remove the term “hero” from its description of the men who died at the Alamo in 1836. Hey, we all know that they died heroically while defending the mission against superior … Continue reading SBOE switches gears: They were ‘heroes’ at the Alamo after all<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6251,18],"tags":[2006,5971,4746],"class_list":["post-32343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","category-state-news","tag-greg-abbott","tag-sboe","tag-the-alamo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32345,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32343\/revisions\/32345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}