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GOP School Board Member Read the Curriculum and was shocked at what she found

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  1. Ubiquitin

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    Who would have thunk? Public schools actually are not the bogey man they’ve been made out to be by conservative social media posts.

    A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrinating kids. Then she read the curriculum.

    Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on. Her defiance has brought her backlash.

    https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/texas-granbury-isd-school-board-courtney-gore/


    Gore, the co-host of a far-right online talk show, had promised that she would be a strong Republican voice on the nonpartisan school board. Citing “small town, conservative Christian values,” she pledged to inspect educational materials for inappropriate messages about sexuality and race and remove them from every campus in the 7,700-student Granbury Independent School District, an hour southwest of Fort Worth. “Over the years our American Education System has been hijacked by Leftists looking to indoctrinate our kids into the ‘progressive’ way of thinking, and yes, they’ve tried to do this in Granbury ISD,” she wrote in a September 2021 Facebook post, two months before the election. “I cannot sit by and watch their twisted worldview infiltrate Granbury ISD.”

    But after taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found — and didn’t find.

    The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist. Children were not being sexualized, and she could find no examples of critical race theory, an advanced academic concept that examines systemic racism. She’d examined curriculum related to social-emotional learning, which has come under attack by Christian conservatives who say it encourages children to question gender roles and prioritizes feelings over biblical teachings. Instead, Gore found the materials taught children “how to be a good friend, a good human.”
     
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  2. rocketsjudoka

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    Good for her to get beyond rhetoric and actually read what she was criticizing before and reevaluate her views.
     
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  3. DFWRocket

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    Those curriculum documents are public. If she would've read them BEFORE she became outraged, she could've saved herself a ton of money.
     
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    Agreed, probably a small % who actually do it but good for her
     
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  5. Invisible Fan

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    She trusted her pastor, fox news anchor and neighbors who drank from the same trough.

    Frankly we do that 80% of the time. The other 20%, we might stumble upon something that personally interests you and then you become the mouthpiece for your community trough.
     
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    She and many others are also told that there is explicit sexual content and other inappropriate content in school libraries. You can't just go into a school library, so it does require a bit of work to find out for yourself if the claims are accurate or not (they are BS in this case). Much easier just to believe the moral Right who would never lie to you.
     
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    At least she performed her due diligence at some point. She saw the emperor with no clothes. So many others would have still peddled the emperor wore a magnificent outfit and kept selling the outrage.
     
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  8. Jugdish

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    Read grade school curriculum: "I had no idea it was like this!"

    Get assaulted by cops: "I had no idea it was like this!"

    Deal with medical bills: "I had no idea it was like this!"

    Get raped, want an abortion: "I had no idea it was like this!"
     
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  9. JuanValdez

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    So now that she's discovered everything she ran on was wrong, is she going to resign? What is her electoral mandate now that she can't do the one thing she promised to do?
     
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  10. DonnyMost

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    Wait til she reads the bible
     
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    "I had no idea the leopards would eat *my* face!"
     
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    Sounds like Woke Mind virus. Stick your head in the sand and it'll all be A-Okay
     
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    I’m reading she started receiving threats after she woke up and realized the propaganda was bullsh*t…ladies and gentlemen, I present to u the state of the republican party

    lay with the devil, and you’ll get burned
     
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    Do they teach that males can be transformed into females?
     
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    Honestly these morons are killing this country with their bullshhit views.

    DD
     
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  18. K9Texan

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    So you agree that kids should have access to gay p*rn in school?
     
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    Republicans should stage some kind of event to burn the books, preferably in a public place. At night. With torches, American flags and lots of people yelling and such.
     
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  20. K9Texan

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    You mean like when Democrats were banning Tom Sawyer?
     
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