How a far-right, Christian cellphone company took over 4 Texas school boards

Christian extremism is some scary stuff. I’d rather Texas and the US not to resemble Saudi Arabia.

 

I'm not pleased. But, I do admire their ability to commit to a ground game and win at local elections. I wish democrats were able to do that.

 

Glad my kids are out of school. I'd happily homeschool them before having the new christian conservative god shoved down their throats.

 

The folks who btch about critical race theory and r actively banning "inapproiate books" are the same dam hypocrites pushing this religion indoctrination bs onto the young minds. U hate to see it

 

yep bunch of hypocritical religious groomers

 

I'm pissed. This is our district- we watched this live for about 5 hours. It's appalling.

Over 80% of the people that spoke in defense of the school board during that and these Orwellian changes did NOT have children attending the district. These outside fanatics literally sent out texts messages all across north Texas to get people to show up to speak in support. These outside sources raised tens of thousands of dollars to completely outfund the sane candidates. We ended up with lunatics like Chip Gaines sister Shannon Braun who has NO KIDS in the district. Or Tammy Nakamura who literally said she had a "hit list" of teachers who they are going after. Many of the people speaking out against the nuts that night were reading statements from teachers who were afraid to speak themselves for fear of reprisal.

They are forcing teachers to provide a list of all the books in their classroom so they can review the titles for appropriateness. My wife (2nd grade) has over 300 books in her class. She works from 7am to 4pm with no breaks and comes home and works from about 6pm to 10pm. She works Saturdays and often Sundays. If they want a list of her books, they can come make the list themselves - she doesn't have the time. F them

 

The last part of this idiots speech was more pornographic than most of the books they're banning.


The librarians at Colleyville Heritage High School quite at the end of the school year because of this new School boards policies. (she spoke frankly to my daughter because my daughter is a heavy reader and was in the library a lot)

Her replacement..quit the week before school began. I don't think they've replaced her yet.

 

In the last few months, GCISD has seen an 18% turnover rate. Twice the average of most districts this year. In the middle of a massive teacher shortage, this is crazy. The school boards response.."there's plenty of teachers waiting to take their place"

ignorance at its finest

 

"5 minutes later, Fat Randy died after suffering from his 6th heart attack in the last 7 months. He is survived by his 6 kids and 3 ex-wives. None of his kids lived in the school district in which he literally spit all over the dais."

 

The students of Grapevine HS have organized a walkout for today over the policy changes. I'll let you know how it goes, but from what my daughter read to me this morning, it seems very well organized for a bunch of teens.

 

Lol this guy wouldn't survive 1 minute talking to an edgy 13 year old like this. Kids can be harsh. I can see it now:

"you have bigger boobs than my mom though"

Also is that guy doing a parody or something? His smirk leaving the mic seems to kinda suggest that.

 

no, this is really what he's like. He was harassing kids with pride flags in the parking lot before the meeting. He drives a big truck with expletive-laden bumper stickers that parents have to explain to their elementary school kids.

 

Another crazy thing - Casey Ford is the School Board President and is known for striking his gavel and interrupting people for "being out of line" which means they are saying something he doesn't like. This guy should've been stopped as soon as he started spewing homophobic statements. But he was not. Casey Ford let it go.

However, not much earlier they asked security to escort a lady out as she had already turned to walk away. Their reasoning..she literally stayed at the mic stand for about 10 seconds too long to tell the board that they were not being good Christians. So as she was walking away they called for security.

 

Not sure there exists a group more ignorant, intolerant and hypocritical than evangelicals.

 

Yep, this is a common theme for most of these people. They will be homeschooling kids or whatever the case and will not have children in the districts they are trying to change.

I think people miss this is another long game by many conservatives in this country...like the pro-life movement was. I think where conservatives messed up was education reformation should have been their first priority before things like banning abortion and they are going to find that many people will not like the changes they want to implment.

But the long term game here is to indoctrinate as many kids into their religion as possible. This sounds like some crazy libtard conspiracy theory, I'm sure, but when you look into it then it becomes pretty clear this is the plan here. Otherwise, why make a law trying to get a 'In God We Trust' poster in schools?

Now though conservatives are going to war against the education system because honestly...and lets be honest here, the more people learn about the world, its history, sciences, etc...the more they question their faith. The response? They hope to eliminate public education entirely knowing that most private schools are religious schools. Something like 80% of private school students attend religious schools. What would they do to all the children who can't afford to go at all? Well, they DGAF about those kids, those kids can enlist in the US military machine or do labor/menial tasks for the rest of their lives. They don't care.

The funny thing is the whole "Liberal propaganda" theory from the right has always been a massive projection of what they wish to do with other people's children.

 

Evangelicals = Taliban

DD

 

They're a bit of a doom cult in the sense that if the world ends in a Zombie Apocalypse, they'll be right there to resume their religious order seen in the days of their Founding Father and Savior, George Washington.

 

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