Texas Education News
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Schools, Parents, & Students
FAQ
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How can parents have the ultimate authority in their child’s education?
Parents need to know their Parental Rights and Responsibilities written in the Texas Education Code, Chapter 26. I believe there must be a partnership between parents, teachers, schools and trustees in order to educate our children. This happens when parents are encouraged to actively participate in creating and implementing educational programs for their children.​​​
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Why Don’t You Support School Vouchers and Government-Regulated School Choices?
Education Savings Accounts are not about parents choosing the school of their choice, but rather, about who will regulate and control education choices. The state of Texas has big goals for all its students, but most Texans have no idea how these goals will redefine the purpose for public education.
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What is the harm of students being taught CSE?
Comprehensive Sex Ed is designed to prepare children for sex and risky sexual behaviors, not to decrease STD’s and teen pregnancy. It’s a license to explore all aspects of erotica and sexuality. There is a reason why parents teach their children about sex indirectly and with modesty: to protect and safekeep their innocence. Once a child’s innocence is taken away, it is nearly impossible to be found again. I believe that knowledge of sex and sexuality is not an Essential Knowledge and Skill that will contribute to the success of a child’s life. It is my hope that one day it will be against the law to teach CSE anywhere in the United States. It purposely oversexualizes our children as young as kindergarten. I will do all I can do to protect and defend the innocence, minds, and health of all children from harmful instructional materials, library books, and curriculum. CSE oversteps parental rights.
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What is the harm of students being taught Social Emotional Learning (SEL)?
At the heart of SEL are common questions: What is the role of education? How should schools define success? What does good character look like? Who should be allowed to define it? This is a completely new vision for education where the focus is shifting a child’s values in order to transform our culture. The goal of SEL is to transform children’s core values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors through mind control techniques, propaganda, role-playing, self-criticism, finger pointing, isolation, repetitive phrases & music, and Us vs. Them. These SEL lessons are interwoven throughout every subject taught in school, and include Critical Race Theory and Comprehensive Sex Ed.
The former public education system taught children the knowledge and skills necessary to read, write, compute, problem-solve, think critically, and communicate, in preparing students to continue to learn in postsecondary educational, training, or employment settings. Modern day public education educates the “Whole Child” - mind, body, and soul - the job of parents and guardians. Further, schools that teach SEL’s are required to collect data on children without parental consent through surveys and evaluations. Essentially, surveys and evaluations have taken over knowledge-based content and skills.​
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Did Texas ban Common Core?
Common Core is still alive in our Texas public schools under the name, Texas College and Career Readiness Standards. Common Core is a theory that is licensed as a product, but marketed as a standard. Standards can be tested using scientific research data that are cognitively, developmentally, and appropriate for children. Each year in school is a stepping stone that builds a concrete base for student learning. Curriculum is developed from standards. Common Core on the other hand is a theory that cannot be tested using scientific research. It took approximately six months to develop Common Core before it was sent out to public schools nationwide and marketed as “standards”. Common Core marked the beginning of the nationalization of our education system. These new standards in education have reduced critical thinking ability, are nonchallenging, removed phonics, and set our children back significantly. Common Core began with English and Math standards, and have now taken over our history standards.