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In September 2018, it was announced that a Texas school curriculum committee had recommended the previous month that educators refrain from calling Alamo defenders "heroic" The recommendation drew the ire of [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Governor]] [[Greg Abbott]], a candidate for re-election in the November 6 general, who urged voters to express opposition to the recommendation to their elected district member on the Texas Board of Education. The recommendation was among several hundred additions, deletions, and tweaks offered by the advisory group reviewing social studies curriculum standards The panel said "heroic" is "a value(s)-charged word." Committee member Walter Louis Buenger, a professor of history at the [[University of Texas at Austin]] and a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], said that he could understand why the word 'heroic' is divisive: Many times the Alamo gets boiled down, as it often does in movies, to the Mexicans are the bad guys and the good guys are good Anglos in coonskin caps." He noted that at least six Mexicans, calling themselves Texians, fought with the American defenders. "Part of the problem with the word heroic may be that it's too simplistic," Buenger added. However, Thomas Lindsay, director of the Center for Innovation in Education for the free-market Texas Public Policy Foundation, said that it is appropriate for educators to "teach students who the good guys and bad guys are in history books."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2018/09/07/dont-call-alamos-defenders-heroic-texas-school-curriculum-panel-urges|title=Don't call the Alamo's defenders 'heroic', Texas school curriculum panel urges|publisher=''The Dallas Morning News''|date=September 8, 2018|accessdate=September 9, 2018}}</ref>

In September 2018, it was announced that a Texas school curriculum committee had recommended the previous month that educators refrain from calling Alamo defenders "heroic" The recommendation drew the ire of [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Governor]] [[Greg Abbott]], a candidate for re-election in the November 6 general, who urged voters to express opposition to the recommendation to their elected district member on the Texas Board of Education. The recommendation was among several hundred additions, deletions, and tweaks offered by the advisory group reviewing social studies curriculum standards The panel said "heroic" is "a value(s)-charged word." Committee member Walter Louis Buenger, a professor of history at the [[University of Texas at Austin]] and a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], said that he could understand why the word 'heroic' is divisive: Many times the Alamo gets boiled down, as it often does in movies, to the Mexicans are the bad guys and the good guys are good Anglos in coonskin caps." He noted that at least six Mexicans, calling themselves Texians, fought with the American defenders. "Part of the problem with the word heroic may be that it's too simplistic," Buenger added. However, Thomas Lindsay, director of the Center for Innovation in Education for the free-market Texas Public Policy Foundation, said that it is appropriate for educators to "teach students who the good guys and bad guys are in history books."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2018/09/07/dont-call-alamos-defenders-heroic-texas-school-curriculum-panel-urges|title=Don't call the Alamo's defenders 'heroic', Texas school curriculum panel urges|publisher=''The Dallas Morning News''|date=September 8, 2018|accessdate=September 9, 2018}}</ref>

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