RobDownSouth
No Kings
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I live in the largest public school system in the county in the largest state public school system (Texas). The "Moms for Liberty" book burning campaign failed in 2024, but due to the meddling of Senator Eduardo Rafael "Ted" Cruz, the local school board went decisively MAGA in 2024. Texas as a whole decided to eliminate CRT (since rebranded as DEI) from textbooks in 2024.
This wasn't enough for the supermajority on our local MAGA-infested School Board. They held a contentious hearing last Monday and although they cannot legally REPLACE the new one year-old propaganda-driven textbooks, they can still 'edit' them.
They have opted to provide funding for casual help over the summer to visit all middle and senior high schools and use scissors to snip out a single chapter in science textbooks dealing with ANY mention of "vaccines", specifically but not exclusive to 'covid'. All references to "polio" will also be excised, and the one page devoted to polio vaccine inventor Jonas Salk is also to be snipped out. The part-time help will be paid piece-rate, i.e for each snipped page they turn in.
Children have deemed to have no legitimate interest in learning about vaccines in secondary schools.
Whitewashing history and science continues.
This wasn't enough for the supermajority on our local MAGA-infested School Board. They held a contentious hearing last Monday and although they cannot legally REPLACE the new one year-old propaganda-driven textbooks, they can still 'edit' them.
They have opted to provide funding for casual help over the summer to visit all middle and senior high schools and use scissors to snip out a single chapter in science textbooks dealing with ANY mention of "vaccines", specifically but not exclusive to 'covid'. All references to "polio" will also be excised, and the one page devoted to polio vaccine inventor Jonas Salk is also to be snipped out. The part-time help will be paid piece-rate, i.e for each snipped page they turn in.
Children have deemed to have no legitimate interest in learning about vaccines in secondary schools.
Whitewashing history and science continues.
