JH> 
JH> But it's been that way for years. It was that way when I went to schoo
JH> but I'll readily admit that things are considerably worse now.
 
       I left school in 1966 to join the Marine Corps so things
probably changed shortly thereafter.  I really don't remember there
being such a political agenda saturated with political correctness from
my school years.  Patriotism was taught, of course, and schools in that
era did not take such a critical view of history as they do today. Yet
there were also things taught that had regional signifigance. For
instance, when I went to school we never heard of the "Civil War" as it
is called today.  Then it was either called the "Brother's War" or the
"War of Northern Agression", and one thing was for sure, no comments of
a derragatory or even questioning nature, were made about the Alamo or
the defenders of the Alamo.  We treated John Wanye's film as a
documentary.
       Today, it seems, local schools have become more "global" in
nature and, as a result, we have lost the shared values that tied our
communities together at a local level.  Our identities have been
stripped from us and the things we believe in for generations have been
robbed.  I remeber being taught the story of the Yellow Rose and her
contribution to Texas in terms that brought tears to our eyes.  Today
our childern are either told the story of a Yellow Rose is a myth or
even worse, being taught that the Yellow Rose was a man who actually
left the Alamo.  
        Such debauchry does nothing for our young and the legacy left
us by our forefathers.  This political corectness stuff, applied in our
schools, is ripping out our hearts and destroying who and what we are
as a people. 
 
                                       Mike Angwin
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