Thursday, October 28, 2021

Texas House committee to investigate school districts’ books on race and sexuality

Check this out, everybody. We're headed into the Dark Ages given how Medieval this is. So reminiscent of the Arizona Department of Education that banned books in the wake of the dismantling of the Mexican American Studies (MAS) program in the Tucson Unified School District in 2010.

Readers of this blog might remember  that in May 2001, State Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal called for the Arizona Department of Education to conduct an evaluation of the literature that had been used in the MAS classrooms. I read the review and discovered just how shoddy it was and how it was indeed a witch hunt that served as a justification, however incorrect and tortuous, that the program was in defiance of ARS 15-112 as follows:

15-112. Prohibited courses and classes; enforcement

A. A school district or charter school in this state shall not include in its program of instruction any courses or classes that include any of the following:

1. Promote the overthrow of the United States government.

2. Promote resentment toward a race or class of people.

3. Are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group.

4. Advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.

Like Senate Bill 3, this is the reincarnation Arizona State Policy. We'll see if they go as far as actually banning these books. 

I hope not. But these guys have little imagination left for how they can win their races, especially when providing greater resources to children in our public schools, helping low-income people survive this economy, or bringing and end to environmental destruction caused by Texas' oil and gas industry never seem to register. And these should not require any imagination.

They require love, caring, and concern for fellow Texans and residents. One shouldn't hold political office if one doesn't love the people of Texas.

-Angela Valenzuela

Texas House committee to investigate school districts’ books on race and sexuality

State Rep. Matt Krause, a candidate for state attorney general, asked school superintendents to confirm whether any books on a list of 850 titles are in their libraries and classrooms.



 

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