' According to speaker notes accompanying one slide, teachers were told that "Christianity challenged the notion that religion should be subservient to the goals of the state ..." That slide quotes the Bible to assert that "[c]ivil government must be respected, but the state is not God." Teachers were told the same principle is embedded in the Declaration of Independence. '
Far-right agitators have been infiltrating school board meetings for years. Some are becoming members, promoting school vouchers, which harms public schools.
Pro-voucher billionaires are using school board races to sow distrust in public EDU & install a voucher system in which public money flows to private & religious schools. The largesse from billionaires Tim Dunn & bros. Farris & Dan Wilks has made its way into local pols.
"Looks like we just threw Gov. Lee’s entire voucher scam in the trash. Thank you to all the parents, students, teachers, superintendents, and concerned Tennesseans all over the state who stood up, spoke out, and defended our public schools from being dismantled and defunded."
-Rep Gloria Johnson
People of #TravisCounty#austin Texas. There is a semi-secret election coming up for an important office that is supposedly non-partisan, but features right wing candidates who hate #publicschools. Vote for the pro-school candidates please
do not trust "moderates" or "centrists". look at what happened in elections in Texas, Arizona, North Carolina. Democrats turning against their voters; Sinema being the worst case.
review their voting records. make them say they're against fascism.
I'm never going to not be angry at the fact that we've collectively accepted that it's fine to infect kids repeatedly with a virus that causes, among many other problems, brain damage and immune problems.
We could have at least given them clean air.
It's absolutely despicable, villainous behaviour for which some of them will suffer for the rest of their lives.
All so the money keeps flowing to the rich.
@pezmico Look what Boston Public Schools did. You can click on individual schools and even dial down to specific classrooms and see what the air quality was all day any day.
Why couldn’t all the kids have this? Funding was passed for upgrades in the US. Where did it go?
Chaplains don’t belong in public schools Mar 07, 2024 Rob Boston
"...This scheme is yet another effort to violate a fundamental principle: that America’s public schools must be secular and welcome all students, no matter their views on religion. It’s an attempt by Christian Nationalists to merge their ultraconservative, fundamentalist version of Christianity with public education. They want to convert our schools into centers of proselytization. We can’t allow that.
The majority of faith leaders and chaplains recognize that their job is to spread religious messages and offer spiritual guidance to those in need. These goals can’t be reconciled with the mission of public education, which is to impart secular education..."
Wedged between PRO and YA, our garden sprouts are taking off! They face two significant challenges: nine days of spring break (when I can’t access the building), and unannounced water line repair under the garden’s raised beds. The beds are suddenly turned topsy turvy to accommodate deep trenches. #PublicSchools are a trip.
#Trump is promising to unleash an unprecedented #publichealth catastrophe if he's allowed back in the #WhiteHouse. #Vaccine mandates at #publicschools are an uncontroversial, long-established requirement that ultimately protects us all, and prevents the unmitigated spread of disease. This is some shit a truly evil person would do if they wanted to spread pestilence as fast and as wide as possible. FFS, please vote in November.
Community members chanted “Classrooms, not courtrooms!,” “Homework, not handcuffs!” “Education, not incarceration!,” and “Free, free Timothy!” as a young #Brownsville resident emerged from Cameron County juvenile court.