Texas has an utterly trash attrition rate already. 20% of students do not finish high school. Some parts of this state have a fourth grade average reading level. 19% of Texans lack functional literacy.
I used to work for a lady in charge of an adult life skills program funded by the city. I thought it was going to be a cool way of helping disadvantaged people, help people get driver's licenses, learn to read, apply for citizenship, you know, that sort of thing. Despite her having a master's degree in education, she would regularly go into rants about the Earth being 6000 years old, gay people being a different species, and how black people have a lower brain weight than white people. She was the most ruthlessly reactionary person I have ever met and she was in charge of a municipal literacy/education program in a Texan city with hundreds of thousands of people, a huge number of whom live in inescapable poverty.
She would berate me for teaching students anything related to evolution, anything she regarded as too racially progressive, or anything regarding American history short of constant praise and worship. She once shouted at me for 30 minutes for teaching a student the word neanderthal, despite it being part of the lesson that day.
My honest opinion is Texas is such a hellscape that people like her are given these positions just so these programs don't work. They're nominally supposed to reduce the worst excesses of suffering and poverty, yet make infrequent headway or just fail and do nothing. That's how the state government wants it.
Texas has an utterly trash attrition rate already. 20% of students do not finish high school. Some parts of this state have a fourth grade average reading level. 19% of Texans lack functional literacy.
I used to work for a lady in charge of an adult life skills program funded by the city. I thought it was going to be a cool way of helping disadvantaged people, help people get driver's licenses, learn to read, apply for citizenship, you know, that sort of thing. Despite her having a master's degree in education, she would regularly go into rants about the Earth being 6000 years old, gay people being a different species, and how black people have a lower brain weight than white people. She was the most ruthlessly reactionary person I have ever met and she was in charge of a municipal literacy/education program in a Texan city with hundreds of thousands of people, a huge number of whom live in inescapable poverty.
She would berate me for teaching students anything related to evolution, anything she regarded as too racially progressive, or anything regarding American history short of constant praise and worship. She once shouted at me for 30 minutes for teaching a student the word neanderthal, despite it being part of the lesson that day.
My honest opinion is Texas is such a hellscape that people like her are given these positions just so these programs don't work. They're nominally supposed to reduce the worst excesses of suffering and poverty, yet make infrequent headway or just fail and do nothing. That's how the state government wants it.
Jesus I hated her so much
Jesus that is too much. Fuck Texas.
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