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UNLIKE WHAT MOST PEOPLE might assume, Texas school children are not raised on cowboys, cattle, and rodeo. Even rural children are totally removed from the land, their own local history, and all the things that are considered synonymous with the state. "The kids don't know where hamburger comes from," teacher Sandy Harrell says. "And they didn't know anything about rodeo--and they live in Texas."
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Harrell, who has spent 27 years educating kids in her hometown of Crosbyton, TX, 38 miles east of Lubbock, set out last year to rectify this. She had two targets in mind: She wanted to show her fifth-graders at Crosbyton Elementary School what a big wide world was out there waiting for them, while at the same time teaching them about their region's history and culture.
She moved the classroom desks out from the middle of the floor and had her students act out rodeo events like steer wrestling and barrel racing. The kids responded so well that Harrell... |
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