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DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — The famous Texas rallying cry, “Remember the Alamo!” has a new connotation after a state committee urged educators to remove the word, “heroic” from curriculum regarding the famous battle.
Texas Monthly reports the advisory group, tasked with streamlining specific subject lessons, has issued a proposed revision saying the word, “heroic” is, “value-charged”.
The advisory group is made up of educators and historians. They made additional recommendations as well but the idea that the defenders of the Alamo should no longer be called heroes has a lot of Texans outraged, including Governor Greg Abbot. Thursday the governor tweeted a rallying cry of his own:
“Stop political correctness in our schools. Of course Texas schoolchildren should be taught that Alamo defenders were ‘Heroic’! I fully expect the State Board of Education to agree. Contact your SBOE Member to complain.”