Nickelodeon slavery claim outrages Alamo keepers

[Gatita]

strangely enough I remember quite a bit from school from back before I discovered women, drugs, and alcohol...

That's funny. Now that I have discovered men and alcohol I do well and remember more about what I am learning in school.

[travis2]

well, I went through middle school 10 years earlier...and CC went through...ummmm...an indeterminately longer time than that...

[CosmicCowboy]

Well I got Texas History in middle school in the early 80's and the teacher taught right out of the book and it sucked. The only cool thing was a film about Juan Seguin we saw.

I was absolutely appalled at my sons Texas history class...the whole year the teacher used the class period to have the kids who knew how to read just read the textbook out loud to the rest of the class...

[Experiment2100]

My Texas history class sucked so much I don't remember it.

[Gatita]

My Texas history class sucked so much I don't remember it.

Same here.

[CosmicCowboy]

My Texas history teacher was one mean battle axe...Texas history was the only subject she taught and she knew her ...her husband was the (winning) high school football coach at the time and she had "can't be fired" stamped on her personnel file...I hated it at the time but you were NOT getting out of her class if you didn't know the subject inside and out and there were a lot of 8th graders taking the class again that didn't believe it the first time...

[JoeChalupa]

maybe I was lucky but my teacher ( a gringa) made it clear that hispanics were very active in the formation of Texas...it was also in the textbook we used...

Those damn liberals!

[T Park]

what does liberal have anything to do with that?

[JsnSA]

My Texas History teacher taught us about Mexican participation at the Alamo (other than Santa Anna's troops).

Perhaps it just depends on the teacher. I don't remember if it was in the text book...I do know it was discussed.

[johnny00]

One afternoon, my youngest was trying to read my replica of the famous Victory or Death! letter by Travis, I read it to both my daughters (one in 6th the other in 8th) and gave a short 10-15 minute history of the Alamo.

After I finished I asked them if they had covered any of this in thier current or past history classes they nodded no and told me this was the first they had heard of the battle.

Amazing that basic San Antonio history isn't covered by some of our schools.