Surrounded by family & friends, I officially announced my candidacy for Texas State Board of Education, District 2 this weekend.
I’m running to put Texas kids first, restore trust, and empower parents.
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Austin doesn’t have a revenue problem — it has a spending problem.
Texas Republicans are demanding real budget discipline: zero-based budgeting, no new taxes, and spending caps that put taxpayers first. Your money belongs to you, not bureaucrats, lobbyists, or pet projects. It’s time to lock the vault and keep Texans first.
Really have no words for this decision. Would like to see the court video.
Is it just telling predators how many crimes they can commit in the Round Rock ISD area, cop to just one of them, and go on with their lives?
Are our prisons full, or what is the problem?
Let's build more.
This may be controversial. Oh well!
Don't rule out the idea of paying your public school teen to read a couple classic literature books this season.
Pay them extra for orally answering questions about it (which you can likely find online). Turn it into a game, if you have multiple children. See thread for the idea.
The books these days don't make kids struggle, except with ideologies that oppose their parents' and their country's, maybe.
GAME SET UP if your teens and college kids can read the same book.
Hit two or three libraries if you need to so they can get to reading. Grab questions from the internet. Borrow money or chips from a board came you have. Have your kids make their own characters based on the characters in the book, using objects from the junk drawer(s).
Game board:
Get creative. Have spaces named after places in the story. Have a pile of helps from "the benefactor" and obstacles from the pile of "drama."
The drama should include doing active stuff. Have fun with that.
Give them a clear beginning and end and a way to use money to buy friends and influence, or food if it's a Dickens book (LOL).
To start, they can move bonus spaces or get "influence" (equal to the roll of two dice) if they say why they picked that character by picking a favorite quote of that character.
Kaufman County, Texas.
Child predators are everywhere kids are. With the internet, that’s literally EVERYWHERE. Yes, in YOUR home town, and YOUR home.
THANKS to @iFightForKids for getting as many off the streets as he can.
Why are teachers leaving?
The lazy, pandering for votes answer is "pay."
The uncomfortable answer is, "ridiculous micromanaging, bad/corrupt admin, toxic work environment, and state demands."
Teachers are not greedy.
#txlege
We've certainly mentioned the "grade inflation" concern to some of you, but also on our socials.
It's fraud. It's theft. It harms kids and good teachers. It harms the reputation of our education system. Enough!
Physicians take an oath to “abstain from all intentional wrongdoing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman.”
The passage of the Protecting Children’s Innocence Act holds the medical community accountable for the mutilation of children and bans gender-transition surgeries and hormone blockers from being administered to minors.
This is in our shopping cart.
Retaliation is happening here, too. In Texas. What better place - where no one things it can happen. That's *exactly* where we need to be paying attention.
@DefendingEd
Just FYI, I quoted to the coach who is going to have my daughter and stepson. Read this book aloud to each other in front of the class in their ninth grade AP English class the quote about having to shave before she goes to see her boyfriend but also there’s a part in there where the two girls are talking to their best friend who happens to be a gay boy and he’s explaining to them. It only hurts at first when the dick goes in so there’s another little nugget for you and a nugget to let you know that your kids are not safe in Catholic school either! I was PTA president at the time and the former PTA president called me and chastised me for having that book taken out of our Catholic school.
📣DAY 4 of of “Banned Books Week”…which is the American Library Association’s marketing attempt to convince YOU that ALL books belong in the hands of minors (and put in our schools, paid for by your tax dollars).
Today I am reading from a book called “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter” by Erika L Sanchez. This book came to my attention after it appeared on a school recommended reading list over the summer. In addition, I found various copies available in our Middle and High School Libraries (so children as young as 11 had access to it).
This book contains sexually explicit content, drug/alcohol abuse by minors, mentions of abortion & suicide, and 42 F BOMBS (in addition to other vulgar language).
Removing books from SCHOOLS is NOT the same thing as a “book ban”. Our children need and deserve access to good rich literature that will enhance their literacy, and instill a love of reading.
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This first Rescissions Package should be an easy yes for Republicans—and it needs to urgently get to the House floor.
If we’re serious about changing course, it starts with real savings NOW for the American people.
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