Q. Last week, you wrote about schools for Spanish-speaking students after 1908. Was Southside the first school for these San Marcos families?
A. Not quite. To find out more about schools serving this group before 1908, I turned to “Sueños y Recuerdos del Pasado: Dreams and Memories of the Past: A Community History of Mexican Americans in San Marcos, Texas.” This book was compiled by the Hispanic Historical Committee of the Hays County Historical Commission.
The chapter on education begins: “Because so many Hispanics in the San Marcos area worked on farms and ranches, there was little in the way of formal schooling during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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