I'm excited. Are you excited?

  • regul [any]
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    3 years ago

    Can't wait to see what the Texas statutes on mandatory public school subjects look like in ten years, provided Texas has not demolished all of its public schools to build Whataburgers surrounded by giant parking lots by then.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      We're already well past the breaking point. So many of these testing mandates and teaching requirements and documentation standards are piling up that nobody can keep up with it even in the "best" schools. We've got a teacher shortage. Kids are falling behind full grade-levels at an accelerating pace, particularly after COVID. The state's only move is to raise costs and fire people, without paying for the balance they incur.

      Teachers are pissed. Parents are pissed. Charter schools are either highly exclusionary or outright scams, so there's no relief there. I don't know whats going to come of it, as we've got 5.3M kids in the system, atm, and there's at least some tacit recognition that dumping them onto the street would be a bad idea. But the idea that you can just do D.A.R.E. for Communism and make this all go away is... optimistic.

      • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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        edit-2
        3 years ago

        Arrest Social Forces with Brute Force And Prove Allende Wrong Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE) COPS CALLED (GONE SEXUAL)

    • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      All private schools, they can teach whatever they want, the only requirement is anti-communism classes.

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I'm not even gonna make a lathe of heaven joke because this is almost exactly what WILL happen if the fash get their way in Texas (maybe make "American Exceptionalism" required more than anti-communism, but maybe both).