Much like in Florida, the fight over public education in Texas has become a lighting rod in the country’s culture wars. Seventh-grade social studies teachers, who teach a full year of Texas state history, are required to describe the defenders of the Alamo in a “heroic” light. I attended Robert E. Lee Elementary School, in Austin, where I learned history according to what was then the state’s history curriculum. In 2016, the school, which my niece now attends, was renamed Russell Lee Elementary.

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Persons: Robert E Organizations: Lee Elementary School, Russell Lee Locations: Florida, Texas, Austin