"Come and get me, copper!" I guess we're talking about psychic violence, because otherwise I can't make much sense of
allegations of terrorism against soccer moms who raise their voices at school board meetings.
So [in] this crazy time that we’re living in, I can’t even believe it’s happening, you really learn who’s willing to put their boots on your neck, given the opportunity. And when this is all over, we all need to remember who those people were, because we can’t trust them anymore.
Our local schools are nothing to write home about, but the school board doesn't have jackbooted goons on it, either.
The Texas school boards are largely controlled by the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB), a local chapter of NASB, (Nation... naturally) which is the body that persuaded the Department of Justice to declare outspoken parents "Terrorists".
ReplyDeleteCheck to see if your local board's website "Policy" pages branch to a TASB hosted site, like this:
https://pol.tasb.org/Home/Index/368
The "Deep State" at TASB drafts these things, then the superintendent asks the elected officials to apply a rubber stamp.
Well, soccer moms are terrifying to snowflakes. And Progressive-Democrats have been enabling/babying snowflakes for some years.
ReplyDeleteThe noise of democracy is utterly terrifying to dictators, too.
Eric Hines
All I see is this: "It is the policy of Aransas County ISD not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability or age," which is the only reference in the school district policies to "race." There's one mention of TASB, whose guidelines apparently control grievance procedures.
ReplyDeleteI'm backing the most recent school board president for the 2022 race for County Judge. He's a very sensible conservative; if there had been CRT rot in the schools here I'm sure he'd have mentioned his frustration with it by now. The kids here tend to be poor, as the local money is concentrated in the hands of retirees, so there's a big focus in the schools on material help to kids with precarious home lives, but it mostly lacks a racial angle--more of a divide between druggy and sober homes. We haven't many black kids, but Anglos, Vietnamese, and Latinos seem like they date each other without racial drama.
Tex, if you like, touch base with me directly at jefmelch-at-aol
ReplyDeleteYou can go from your district's board's page here:
https://www.acisd.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=2176265&type=d&pREC_ID=2181061
to the TASB hosted "policy" pages here:
https://pol.tasb.org/Home/Index/132
For an example: compare the policy coded BQ (Local) and the use of the word "periodically" to the black letter law of the Texas State Statute: Education Code 11.251 and use of the phrases "annually", "actively", "regularly", etc.
The intent of the legislature seems to expect that parents, taxpayers, local business leaders, and classroom teachers have a say in running Texas school districts. TASB, (like the National Association) prefers to confine the influence of such outsiders to low-risk decisions at dispersed venues: those opportunities provided only now and then.