In an unwelcomed assertion of state power, the Texas Education Agency has implemented a “New Education System” in the Houston Independent School District, re…
This smells like a way for Republicans to drive people to home schooling and then cut public school funding.
Also helps raise more uneducated and poor voters to support the Republican party.
Agreed. The uneducated are much easier to manipulate.
Worse. It’s part of the school to prison pipeline. So they are basically going to remove the right to vote from these students in the future.
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That’s exactly it. They even state it bluntly in their 2025 dictatorship manual.
Can’t vote them out of office if you can’t read the ballot.
Nothing good in history has ever come from conservatism. Nothing at all.
Hey, that’s not true! Nazi uniforms were very fashionable.
The SS Line: by Hugo Boss
Hand-designed by the finest homosexual fascists to ever get purged /s
Is Greg Abbott’s lack of a spine the reason he uses a wheelchair or just an ironic coincidence?
How to make people hate libraries, so the electorate will remain ignorant.
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It’s a shame they didn’t have the funding to keep the libraries open. On the other hand, schools desperately need more discipline. There are horror stories from teachers on /r/teachers. Physical assault. Guns. Drugs. It’s insane, and there are almost no repercussions. If the previous system didn’t provide a high quality of education, I’m all for using a proven model instead.
They don’t cite funding as the reason, but low test scores. As if getting rid of libraries and punishing kids instead will raise test scores.
I don’t think “disciplinary centers” are a “proven model” for healthy education
I’m all for using a proven model instead.
What “proven model” would that be? It sure as fuck isn’t anything similar to this.