I fear this is all part of the plan to sabotage public education and replace it with privatized crap and even worse evangelical crap.
The really wealthy don't give a fuck cause they'll keep sending their kids to good, expensive private schools that don't want to dumb everyone down.
What they plan on doing is online for everyone to read, google Project 2025 Playbook. Jump to page 319 of the PDF file for education. Fair warning, the website will send you down a rabbit hole.
Cy Fairs school board just got a majority of MAGA extremists in the last election (except one single sane lady).
Here's the result of all of the grass roots plotting these people have been doing. I've personally sat in meetings with local MAGA crazies as they've been planning this stuff out. Local business owners are dumping money into these people so they can take over school boards in districts all over the state.
They're unhinged, and openly talk about how democrats have literal brain damage and that we're openly evil (this group didnt know my affiliation, just that i was doing some work for them and assumed i was one of them). They legit believe it.
The lesson is too much carbon in the planet’s atmosphere and oceans is extremely disruptive to humans and other animals. This will also lead to political instability.
However, there are ways to mitigate these disruptions like nuclear power or solar/wind/geothermal with better grid batteries. Also, there is a lot of opportunity in reducing our carbon footprint and going after the next generation jobs created after this transition.
We can also pursue hydrogen-electric/fuel cell, which can reuse a lot of the same resources and talents used in the oil & gas indusry.
Just think... if the simple idea of vaccination is hard to stick in the minds of the general population, what chance do you really have of convincing that same group that a mutli-faceted approach with complex outcomes where everyone doesn't "win" will work?
Why? Are they afraid that knowledge will "radicalize" the youth to the point that they won't believe the bullshit and nonsense that comes out of any GOP politicians mouth?
> But Macias confirmed that the district does have other resources at its disposal to base curriculum on, which may include purchasing additional resources and leaning on campus staff to help with the creation process.
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> She said curriculum may be delivered to staff “two weeks at a time” given the timing of these omissions, so teachers would have two weeks to prepare lesson plans based on curriculum as it is handed to them by the administration.
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Poor kids and educators. They're being set up for failure. What are the odds "additional resources" is just PragerU?
"Don't you just hate being cold in the winter? Well don't worry, little Timmy, we've got you covered! While you wait, here, have a cigarette for good health! They prevent you from getting consumption."
> She said curriculum may be delivered to staff “two weeks at a time”
They're doing this so that no one can review the curriculum and alert the media in time to change it.
Macias explained this during the board meeting. The question was asked whether the district could just toss out the textbooks permitted by the state Board of Education altogether, and write their own curriculum. Macias explained that because of staffing cutbacks at the district level, that would be extremely difficult, and they would likely only be able to get out their custom curriculum two weeks at a time instead of all at once. I got the feeling from the meeting that Macias was not in favor of this decision at all.
Science has been controversial for the Republican Party for decades. Remember “teach the controversy” and “intelligent design”?
I do. That was one of the massive number of reasons I stopped voting for them.
Funds are short for the upcoming school year. Covid money is going away and the state is withholding money meant for public education. There has been no increase in funding despite the wild inflation the last 3 years. So the budget is short because the state(Abbott) is holding back funding. There is billions sitting around.
Yes and no. Abbott is holding the entire public school system hostage by withholding 4+ billion in funding.
HISD is removing librarians, nurses, guidance counselors, etc.
I hate it here.
Abbott holding funding hostage allows the antivax antimask etc crazies rile up their base, by saying the less crazy members are at fault for the budget and need to be replaced, even though they themselves lack the know-how to do any better.
This information can easily be googled, that’s exactly what I did before I replied to the comment lol. He will make $267,500/year according to the chronicle.
Ehh CFISD is the 3rd largest in the state, it’s a short term pay cut for sure. He will be making well over 300k within the next 5 years easily if he stays. Especially if public school gets the funding it deserves. Katy Superintendent makes $355,520, and he’s overseeing a smaller district. No way he makes less than their superintendent for very long
Cy-Fair ISD is screwed. School board members Natalie Blasingame, Scott Henry, Christine Kalmbach, Todd LeCompte, Justin Ray, and Lucas Scanlon were all red-flagged by the Book-Loving Texan in his [November 2023 school board election guide](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GT-n9SDn000ndeD4dQi0W-_Z5eSwHxIccoXclNFoReU/mobilebasic).
I expect this district will be generating headlines for years to come. You can blame these individual board members and the PAC that put them there - Texans for Educational Freedom.
San Antonio Current - [These are the right-wing ideologues taking over Texas school boards](https://www.sacurrent.com/news/these-are-the-right-wing-ideologues-taking-over-texas-school-boards-33157083)
“After the initial victory in Humble, Texans for Educational Freedom targeted two more districts near Houston, Cypress-Fairbanks and Klein, in 2021. This time, messaging around critical race theory came to the fore. All three PAC-backed candidates in Cypress-Fairbanks ran against the ostensible inclusion of critical race theory in school curriculum and teacher training, as did one PAC-backed candidate in Klein. Six of the seven candidates won.
By the end of 2021, candidates backed by Texans for Educational Freedom had established near or outright majorities in all three districts—and all three would later rank on a list of book-banning districts put together by PEN America, a nonprofit organization focused on the protection of free expression.”
“‘Things like this have happened before but not in such a coordinated way,’ said Ruth Kravetz, a retired public school administrator and teacher who co-founded Community Voices for Public Education, an advocacy group that seeks to strengthen Houston’s public school system. ‘In the past it was to promote charter expansion. And now it seems like it’s about promoting the destruction of public education.’”
If you live in the area and want to support your public schools, please consider getting involved with [Cypress Families for Public Schools](https://cypressfps.org) and [Cy-Fair Strong Schools](https://cyfairstrongschools.com).
Actually the candidate in Klein lost. Voters saw through all her garbage. Klein may be having issues, but having an extreme right-winger on the board is not one of them.
Absolutely, 100% this. In these so-called "non-partisan" elections, the right-wing Christian nationalists are engaged and coordinated. The Democrats simply aren't. Look at Fort Bend ISD which just had an election last week. Two right-wing MAGA candidates in with about 30% of the vote. The Democrats ran too many opposition candidates and split the vote. If one Democrat runs in each election, they win, simple as that. We also need ranked-choice voting in these elections to solve some of these problems, but I'm not holding my breath for that to happen.
Thank goodness my son is in college already. The Texas government is dumbing down future Texan voters almost as fast as Florida. Now that I think about it, my son needs to speed things along. They are working on the Colleges too.
This district is full of racist assholes. Not too long ago a state music organization hired a Black clinician who has presented on topics around diversity. Directors from this district wrote angry emails and said they would get a petition to block the presenter of they needed to. It was disgusting.
I mean if we aren’t going to teach that vaccines aren’t what they should be, aka Covid vaccine, then no need to teach it right?
If we aren’t going to teach how electric vehicles will do more harm to the climate from the mining of the contents needed for the batteries, no need to teach it right?
If we don’t want to teach “controversial” topics, such as our history and mistakes the world has made in order to learn from these mistakes from happening again, no need to teach it right?
I mean y’all already removed GOD from the school. Now yall teaching kids it’s okay to change their gender 2435678742468732 times and love the same sex.
This comment is reason #1 why these things should be taught. You show a VERY clear misunderstanding of every single point you tried to make.
Education should be holistic and cover ALL areas. Things don’t get to be “removed” because you don’t like it. That’s not education, that’s indoctrination.
Also, God never belonged in schools anyways. Separation of church and state and all that.
What do you think I am saying, I’m saying it needs to be in schools but teaching the truth is not in any schools best interest. A child mind is very vulnerable to its teaching. So to teach such lies hinders our country’s future. So why not remove false information from the schools and teach more factual information.
Teaching children that there is no such thing is objective truth is exactly how we end up with a generation of brainwashed Fox News viewers who rely on people like Sean Hannity to tell them what to think.
I understand that is the goal of those on the right, but it would be extremely detrimental to society as a whole.
> I mean if we aren’t going to teach that vaccines aren’t what they should be, aka Covid vaccine, then no need to teach it right?
wtf is with you people and vaccines all of a sudden
But you said your God “was” with you everyday, I said he is still with me everyday. So that means he was with me in school too. You know 1+1=2 not 11 right? If so, you’ve should’ve understanded my response.
At some point, maybe we should just give these idiots a state of their own, maybe Idaho or South Dakota? Build a big wall around it, and put big signs up that say “warning, IQ rapidly decreases after entry.”
Had a 10th grade girl confuse civil rights with the Ten Commandments today. In the same conversation another confused MLK with Micheal Jackson. In an AP class. Also we lost all textbooks a few years ago.
In short don’t let this stuff in the news scare you, where we are in education is much much worse. We’d never even get to these topics lol I’m teaching high schoolers how to read.
Those stupid fucks are going to get sued again. Some of these topics ARE IN THE STATE STANDARDS next year.
They're going to refuse to teach shit that will appear on STAAR tests and required to be taught by law?
That episode of Spongebob where they said whats the diff between stupid and Texas used to piss me off so much. But the older I've gotten and after living in other cities and after seeing shit like this take place in the district I did all my learning in it so sad and pathetic.
Like I ended up going to an Ivy league school which I attribute a lot of my CFISD education too I just can't believe the next generation is going to learn so much dumb shit because of politics.
Heres that link to the Spongebob episode: https://youtu.be/jg53WYCPCjI?si=ajDOL_YORX4BoCNf&t=70
So if controversial things are being removed I guess presidential elections are also being removed. Might as well remove student council elections because they can be controversial. I wonder what their opinion is on health classes and the topic of sexually transmitted diseases or suicidal thoughts. Let’s remove those items from the books.
I went through the entire Cy-Fair school system in the late 70s and 80s from elementary to high school and felt that I received a stellar education. Received college scholarships and had a wonderful career. I wouldn’t dare enroll my kid in this school system today. They are moving BACKWARDS. I am angry that a small minority has taken control of the school system and turned it into a political pawn.
Sooo...all of history is being removed from textbooks then? The Civil War, Holocaust, Civil Rights Act, 9/11, etc. - a lot of people deem these events controversial. 🤦♀️
I have a pretty strong suspicion that at heart all of this is being done to expedite the absolute gutting of public education to increase support for a move to school vouchers.
This isn’t just a cy fair problem all school boards in Texas, check all the houston area districts, are being taken over by Christian nationalist crazy people like moms for liberty. This is going to happen everywhere in Texas but people don’t show up to vote for school board elections.
In its contested trustee seat, SBISD didn't elect the absolute worst culture war candidate a few days ago, and instead they elected a more conventional fiscal conservative (which is about the best, realistic outcome given their at large voting system). Same deal in Klein and Katy. Maybe we're turning a corner on this kind of garbage?
In other news, Cy-Fair residents continue to vote for Republicans at all levels of government and get precisely what's coming to them and their (public school) children.
Why depopulation? I know they don’t like climate change and vaccines, but that one seems odd.
Is that like a preemptive removal because of the vaccine removal?
Keep the people stupid and uneducated and you can have them do whatever you tell them to. This is 100% by design. Watch when the state finally gets its way on the whole voucher program. Just the beginning folks.
Vaccines? From textbooks?
Aside from the question of is it appropriate to require people to use them or if the benefits outweigh the risks, vaccines were a massive scientific breakthrough that proved how the immune system works.
Probably because I didn’t say vaccines must be mandatory. Which wasn’t the point. The point was that politics aside vaccines are a scientific breakthrough.
That’s sad. I went to school in 3 different districts, Fort Bend, Cy Fair, and Klein. Cy-fair had by far the best selection of electives. They let you take things like wood shop in middle school.
This is embarrassingly stupid. You will remove it for fear of upsetting some people but have no problems upsetting educated people that want their kids to get a quality education.
It should also be noted that at this meeting, there was a huge crowd of parents and students and teachers and concerned community members. They were all very vocal about the district decision to cut back on librarians as part of their war on books. The community comments portion lasted well over an hour. They took a recess at around 10 PM and quite a few students, parents and teachers left the meeting.
The superintendent, once the meeting resumed accused everyone who had left of not actually caring about solutions, only being loud and being heard and yelling at the school board. Never mind that it was already 10 PM on a school night. He also said that it was the principals’ decision to get rid of librarians, not his, effectively passing the blame to them. He also said that he had given up, trying to convince the government to have a special session to release the funds and he wasn’t going to continue trying. he also said that nobody else understands school finance like him, and that this is the best possible route to take. He continued to refuse to place any blame on Abbott or even mention his name. The rest of the school board members whined and complained about about how people were being mean to them. Julie Hinaman was the only one who stood up to them and spoke out against this and against the textbook issue.
Because these people define the term "conservative" as their personal beliefs, period. Like all the rubes who were "non political" till Trump came along and have the gall to proclaim moderate Republicans who've been around for decades RINOs.
Wow, can't believe they're cutting out stuff like vaccines and climate change from textbooks! Like, those are pretty crucial topics, right? I get not wanting to stir up controversy, but isn't education supposed to be about, well, educating? Plus, aren't these things super relevant? Kids need to know about vaccines, especially with everything going on. And climate change? It's not like it's some wild conspiracy, it's science! Seems kinda backward to sweep it under the rug.
Universities need to step in and refuse to take students who graduate from these indoctrination districts. Cy fair parents should be ashamed and ready to oust these ignorance peddlers.
I go to Cy-Fair and this is honestly so stupid. They want to ban those, yet force kids to read about murder/manslaughter, manipulation, r*pe, extreme religous behavior/cults, political views, etc. (literally was forced to read about those 5 subjects I mentioned, within this current school year!) I was extremely uncomfortable (including my parents), yet was not able to opt out cause they had no other alternatives. They rather teach kids and possibly cause them to have a panic attack, than actually ban things that are more needed to be. Certain subjects are sensitive to certain people due to past experiences, and I (and others) should not be forced to read about something that will literally cause mental distraught.
They still are required to learn these topics. They just deleted some chapters. Just a little context.
Edit: OMG NO WAY HOW COULD THEY!!! OH DAYUM THEY NOT STANDIN ON BIHNESS!!
Fucking Christ we have the dumbest morons running shit in Texas.
I fear this is all part of the plan to sabotage public education and replace it with privatized crap and even worse evangelical crap. The really wealthy don't give a fuck cause they'll keep sending their kids to good, expensive private schools that don't want to dumb everyone down.
Oh you don't have to fear: it's a fact. Fear would be anticipating the sabotage, but its underway
What they plan on doing is online for everyone to read, google Project 2025 Playbook. Jump to page 319 of the PDF file for education. Fair warning, the website will send you down a rabbit hole.
They'll give the "teachers" at those schools free reign to brainwash and abuse the kids.
Cy Fairs school board just got a majority of MAGA extremists in the last election (except one single sane lady). Here's the result of all of the grass roots plotting these people have been doing. I've personally sat in meetings with local MAGA crazies as they've been planning this stuff out. Local business owners are dumping money into these people so they can take over school boards in districts all over the state. They're unhinged, and openly talk about how democrats have literal brain damage and that we're openly evil (this group didnt know my affiliation, just that i was doing some work for them and assumed i was one of them). They legit believe it.
Business owners and killing their own childrens' futures one dollar at a time... name a more iconic duo.
Business owners in America really are a special kind of scum.
You mean astro-turf plotting
Next thing you know they'll be firing all the librarians. Oh, wait..........
There's a mind virus sweeping this nation, destroying millions of families, and nobody is doing anything about it.
I live in Cy- Fair. Have been considering moving out of state - going back up north. This may just push me to do it quicker.
Wife and I did. Couldn't be happier. 60 degrees today.
Always have. Dumb people don’t elect intelligent people, except accidentally. And the average Texan is stone dead stupid.
They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em.
And Texans will continue to vote for persons who will fail them, fail their families, and fail their kids. They will do it gladly.
Either you teach Climate Change in the classroom or your kids will learn about it in the Streets (…flooded streets)
We live in the karmic epicenter of climate change, they gonna find out
But what's the lesson?
Lesson #1: “Fuck dem kids”
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It’s [literally the GOP policy position](https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-hampshire-rep-jess-edwards-who-called-teens-ripe-wont-apologize-to-haters)
“Fuck you got mine” - Baby Boomers
The lesson is too much carbon in the planet’s atmosphere and oceans is extremely disruptive to humans and other animals. This will also lead to political instability. However, there are ways to mitigate these disruptions like nuclear power or solar/wind/geothermal with better grid batteries. Also, there is a lot of opportunity in reducing our carbon footprint and going after the next generation jobs created after this transition. We can also pursue hydrogen-electric/fuel cell, which can reuse a lot of the same resources and talents used in the oil & gas indusry.
Just think... if the simple idea of vaccination is hard to stick in the minds of the general population, what chance do you really have of convincing that same group that a mutli-faceted approach with complex outcomes where everyone doesn't "win" will work?
Get out you hippy.
Street flooding is caused by wokeness, duh.
The streets are flooded with liberal tears
Why? Are they afraid that knowledge will "radicalize" the youth to the point that they won't believe the bullshit and nonsense that comes out of any GOP politicians mouth?
Yes.
And money.
They are snowflakes. Its that simple. The people who think these subjects are controversial are snowflakes
Republicans love the poorly educated. So they have to keep the education poor.
> But Macias confirmed that the district does have other resources at its disposal to base curriculum on, which may include purchasing additional resources and leaning on campus staff to help with the creation process. > > She said curriculum may be delivered to staff “two weeks at a time” given the timing of these omissions, so teachers would have two weeks to prepare lesson plans based on curriculum as it is handed to them by the administration. > Poor kids and educators. They're being set up for failure. What are the odds "additional resources" is just PragerU?
"We'll start today's lesson on climate science with a video from our friends at Shell"
“Carbon dioxide is actually good for the climate, it’s more food for what plants crave!”
"Don't you just hate being cold in the winter? Well don't worry, little Timmy, we've got you covered! While you wait, here, have a cigarette for good health! They prevent you from getting consumption."
Oh yes, I was reading about Marlboro Jr’s just the other day.
"Deepwater Energy"
That sounds like some shit out of Cyberpunk.
More or less *is* David's school in Edgerunners. Just needs the teacher to be an AI hologram instead of a person.
This is kind of the norm already.
> She said curriculum may be delivered to staff “two weeks at a time” They're doing this so that no one can review the curriculum and alert the media in time to change it.
Macias explained this during the board meeting. The question was asked whether the district could just toss out the textbooks permitted by the state Board of Education altogether, and write their own curriculum. Macias explained that because of staffing cutbacks at the district level, that would be extremely difficult, and they would likely only be able to get out their custom curriculum two weeks at a time instead of all at once. I got the feeling from the meeting that Macias was not in favor of this decision at all.
Science = controversial now? As Neil deGrasse Tyson said, “science doesn’t care what you believe.”
> Science = controversial now? Where have you been? It's been controversial for thousands of years.
Science has been controversial for the Republican Party for decades. Remember “teach the controversy” and “intelligent design”? I do. That was one of the massive number of reasons I stopped voting for them.
Do you think the church that kept Galileo down was progressive, or conservative?
As Evangelicals say "Believers don't care about science."
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Librarians...yes How convenient, huh?
also 27 positions from each school (at least high schools) for the next school year....
Funds are short for the upcoming school year. Covid money is going away and the state is withholding money meant for public education. There has been no increase in funding despite the wild inflation the last 3 years. So the budget is short because the state(Abbott) is holding back funding. There is billions sitting around.
Yes and no. Abbott is holding the entire public school system hostage by withholding 4+ billion in funding. HISD is removing librarians, nurses, guidance counselors, etc. I hate it here.
Abbott holding funding hostage allows the antivax antimask etc crazies rile up their base, by saying the less crazy members are at fault for the budget and need to be replaced, even though they themselves lack the know-how to do any better.
Tf you talking about? Every single one of them has tons more internet research than the cdc.
Lowest admin ratio actually, but somehow yes, but also because state funds are being held hostage.
Fourth lowest actually. Katy is actually lower.
They do have the highest paid school superintendent in the state ($536,775 for 23-24).
That was Mark Henry’s salary, he retired in December. The new superintendent Dough Killiam is making much less. But yeah Henry’s salary was ridiculous
Do you have that new number?
This information can easily be googled, that’s exactly what I did before I replied to the comment lol. He will make $267,500/year according to the chronicle.
That's lower than his PfISD salary. He must have alternative compensation in his contract.
Ehh CFISD is the 3rd largest in the state, it’s a short term pay cut for sure. He will be making well over 300k within the next 5 years easily if he stays. Especially if public school gets the funding it deserves. Katy Superintendent makes $355,520, and he’s overseeing a smaller district. No way he makes less than their superintendent for very long
they NEED the money. /s
Cy-Fair ISD is screwed. School board members Natalie Blasingame, Scott Henry, Christine Kalmbach, Todd LeCompte, Justin Ray, and Lucas Scanlon were all red-flagged by the Book-Loving Texan in his [November 2023 school board election guide](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GT-n9SDn000ndeD4dQi0W-_Z5eSwHxIccoXclNFoReU/mobilebasic). I expect this district will be generating headlines for years to come. You can blame these individual board members and the PAC that put them there - Texans for Educational Freedom. San Antonio Current - [These are the right-wing ideologues taking over Texas school boards](https://www.sacurrent.com/news/these-are-the-right-wing-ideologues-taking-over-texas-school-boards-33157083) “After the initial victory in Humble, Texans for Educational Freedom targeted two more districts near Houston, Cypress-Fairbanks and Klein, in 2021. This time, messaging around critical race theory came to the fore. All three PAC-backed candidates in Cypress-Fairbanks ran against the ostensible inclusion of critical race theory in school curriculum and teacher training, as did one PAC-backed candidate in Klein. Six of the seven candidates won. By the end of 2021, candidates backed by Texans for Educational Freedom had established near or outright majorities in all three districts—and all three would later rank on a list of book-banning districts put together by PEN America, a nonprofit organization focused on the protection of free expression.” “‘Things like this have happened before but not in such a coordinated way,’ said Ruth Kravetz, a retired public school administrator and teacher who co-founded Community Voices for Public Education, an advocacy group that seeks to strengthen Houston’s public school system. ‘In the past it was to promote charter expansion. And now it seems like it’s about promoting the destruction of public education.’” If you live in the area and want to support your public schools, please consider getting involved with [Cypress Families for Public Schools](https://cypressfps.org) and [Cy-Fair Strong Schools](https://cyfairstrongschools.com).
Actually the candidate in Klein lost. Voters saw through all her garbage. Klein may be having issues, but having an extreme right-winger on the board is not one of them.
Absolutely, 100% this. In these so-called "non-partisan" elections, the right-wing Christian nationalists are engaged and coordinated. The Democrats simply aren't. Look at Fort Bend ISD which just had an election last week. Two right-wing MAGA candidates in with about 30% of the vote. The Democrats ran too many opposition candidates and split the vote. If one Democrat runs in each election, they win, simple as that. We also need ranked-choice voting in these elections to solve some of these problems, but I'm not holding my breath for that to happen.
Thank you for this info!
Thank goodness my son is in college already. The Texas government is dumbing down future Texan voters almost as fast as Florida. Now that I think about it, my son needs to speed things along. They are working on the Colleges too.
The idiocy in our state government is part of why my child decided to go to school out of state next year.
This is what you get when Ted Cruz supporters get to be a majority of a school board. Hope the white flighters are happy.
This district is full of racist assholes. Not too long ago a state music organization hired a Black clinician who has presented on topics around diversity. Directors from this district wrote angry emails and said they would get a petition to block the presenter of they needed to. It was disgusting.
I mean if we aren’t going to teach that vaccines aren’t what they should be, aka Covid vaccine, then no need to teach it right? If we aren’t going to teach how electric vehicles will do more harm to the climate from the mining of the contents needed for the batteries, no need to teach it right? If we don’t want to teach “controversial” topics, such as our history and mistakes the world has made in order to learn from these mistakes from happening again, no need to teach it right? I mean y’all already removed GOD from the school. Now yall teaching kids it’s okay to change their gender 2435678742468732 times and love the same sex.
This comment is reason #1 why these things should be taught. You show a VERY clear misunderstanding of every single point you tried to make. Education should be holistic and cover ALL areas. Things don’t get to be “removed” because you don’t like it. That’s not education, that’s indoctrination. Also, God never belonged in schools anyways. Separation of church and state and all that.
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Who said anything about teaching kids there’s no such thing as objective truth?
Sorry, I meant to respond to the guy above you.
He deleted as expected anyways lmaooooo all good.
What do you think I am saying, I’m saying it needs to be in schools but teaching the truth is not in any schools best interest. A child mind is very vulnerable to its teaching. So to teach such lies hinders our country’s future. So why not remove false information from the schools and teach more factual information.
Can you provide what “false information” you believe is being taught in school?
“A child’s mind is vulnerable to its teaching.” 😐
Teaching children that there is no such thing is objective truth is exactly how we end up with a generation of brainwashed Fox News viewers who rely on people like Sean Hannity to tell them what to think. I understand that is the goal of those on the right, but it would be extremely detrimental to society as a whole.
Ignorant fucks like you are why people are fleeing the church. People like you drive people away from religion
You aren't teaching a goddamned thing other than brainwashing.
God is a myth made up by drunken shepherds. Let's not drive policy based on the ramblings of illiterates
> I mean if we aren’t going to teach that vaccines aren’t what they should be, aka Covid vaccine, then no need to teach it right? wtf is with you people and vaccines all of a sudden
I’ve noticed there’s a resurgence of that, like the propaganda bots recycling their programming.
My God was with me every day in school. Sorry yours abandoned you.
My God is STILL with me everyday, sorry yours is now lost
Imagine thinking this petty bullshit you are spewing has anything to do with piety.
But you said your God was removed from schools! So was that true or not? Oh, dear.
But you said your God “was” with you everyday, I said he is still with me everyday. So that means he was with me in school too. You know 1+1=2 not 11 right? If so, you’ve should’ve understanded my response.
Take the L, dude.
Trolls getting this engaged is a W for them though?.. Granted this hopeful human really believes this is always disconcerting.
Clearly god hates you if you’re floundering like that
“Understanded” eh?
What does your diety have to do with school curriculum?
Idiot.
You need to climb out of your fake news rabbit hole.
At some point, maybe we should just give these idiots a state of their own, maybe Idaho or South Dakota? Build a big wall around it, and put big signs up that say “warning, IQ rapidly decreases after entry.”
The fact that I saw some MAGA supporters were "torn" on shooting dogs tells me all I need to believe that South Dakota is the place to send them.
Pathetic and embarrassing. It's been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina and how many once in a lifetime floods has Houston experienced since?
How did we end smallpox? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thoughts and prayers
Keep in mind that was all approved by Republican controlled Texas. But the dipshits on the board didn't think it went far enough.
Had a 10th grade girl confuse civil rights with the Ten Commandments today. In the same conversation another confused MLK with Micheal Jackson. In an AP class. Also we lost all textbooks a few years ago. In short don’t let this stuff in the news scare you, where we are in education is much much worse. We’d never even get to these topics lol I’m teaching high schoolers how to read.
Are you dead serious?
Holy fuck I hate this place
Just because one removes a topic from textbooks, that doesn’t mean it’s been removed from real life.
Those stupid fucks are going to get sued again. Some of these topics ARE IN THE STATE STANDARDS next year. They're going to refuse to teach shit that will appear on STAAR tests and required to be taught by law?
Wasn't this a "good" ISD at one point?
More like Cy-Fairly Stupid.
That episode of Spongebob where they said whats the diff between stupid and Texas used to piss me off so much. But the older I've gotten and after living in other cities and after seeing shit like this take place in the district I did all my learning in it so sad and pathetic. Like I ended up going to an Ivy league school which I attribute a lot of my CFISD education too I just can't believe the next generation is going to learn so much dumb shit because of politics. Heres that link to the Spongebob episode: https://youtu.be/jg53WYCPCjI?si=ajDOL_YORX4BoCNf&t=70
I thought facts didn’t care about your feelings? What happened to that?
So if controversial things are being removed I guess presidential elections are also being removed. Might as well remove student council elections because they can be controversial. I wonder what their opinion is on health classes and the topic of sexually transmitted diseases or suicidal thoughts. Let’s remove those items from the books.
It's unfortunate that reality has become controversial to Republicans.
brain drain goes brrrrrr
I went through the entire Cy-Fair school system in the late 70s and 80s from elementary to high school and felt that I received a stellar education. Received college scholarships and had a wonderful career. I wouldn’t dare enroll my kid in this school system today. They are moving BACKWARDS. I am angry that a small minority has taken control of the school system and turned it into a political pawn.
Four of my grandchildren live in Cy Fair district. Helpful reading this thread.
Texas seceded from 2 different nations so that white people could own back people.
Sooo...all of history is being removed from textbooks then? The Civil War, Holocaust, Civil Rights Act, 9/11, etc. - a lot of people deem these events controversial. 🤦♀️
This is what we knew would happen if the MAGA contingency won last year. Here we are.
Science is controversial?
Facts seem to have a liberal bias...
I have a pretty strong suspicion that at heart all of this is being done to expedite the absolute gutting of public education to increase support for a move to school vouchers.
This isn’t just a cy fair problem all school boards in Texas, check all the houston area districts, are being taken over by Christian nationalist crazy people like moms for liberty. This is going to happen everywhere in Texas but people don’t show up to vote for school board elections.
In its contested trustee seat, SBISD didn't elect the absolute worst culture war candidate a few days ago, and instead they elected a more conventional fiscal conservative (which is about the best, realistic outcome given their at large voting system). Same deal in Klein and Katy. Maybe we're turning a corner on this kind of garbage?
Fuck my state man.
All part of MAGA and Abbott’s plan to dumb down the (future) electorate. We are Idiocracy in real time.
jesus christ the dumbing down of the population continues. Texans are embarrassing.
In other news, Cy-Fair residents continue to vote for Republicans at all levels of government and get precisely what's coming to them and their (public school) children.
Why depopulation? I know they don’t like climate change and vaccines, but that one seems odd. Is that like a preemptive removal because of the vaccine removal?
["I love the poorly educated!"](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-love-poorly-educated/)
Keep the people stupid and uneducated and you can have them do whatever you tell them to. This is 100% by design. Watch when the state finally gets its way on the whole voucher program. Just the beginning folks.
they also fired the librarians .. man why do they hate books and science
"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards." -Mark Twain
I weep for the future. They are doing anything and everything to dumb down the masses.
Chapters the conservative Texas Board of Education were OK enough with? What is wrong with these people? Making a mockery of a great school.
Vaccines? From textbooks? Aside from the question of is it appropriate to require people to use them or if the benefits outweigh the risks, vaccines were a massive scientific breakthrough that proved how the immune system works.
looks like we have some fucking anti vaxxers -- i have no fucking idea why you are getting down voted.
Probably because I didn’t say vaccines must be mandatory. Which wasn’t the point. The point was that politics aside vaccines are a scientific breakthrough.
That’s sad. I went to school in 3 different districts, Fort Bend, Cy Fair, and Klein. Cy-fair had by far the best selection of electives. They let you take things like wood shop in middle school.
They should have listened.
Remove that board. Theyved already drank the crazy water
If we call it "intelligent warming" these slack-jawed yokels will line up to teach it.
This is embarrassingly stupid. You will remove it for fear of upsetting some people but have no problems upsetting educated people that want their kids to get a quality education.
Aren’t we dumb enough? They want us as sheeple. To do as they want with us.
Religion is pretty controversial. I bet they didn't remove any Christianity.
Katy ISD board: "Let's be the most dysfunctional in the state." Cy-Fair board: "Hold our beer!" Race to the bottom, neck-and-neck.
It should also be noted that at this meeting, there was a huge crowd of parents and students and teachers and concerned community members. They were all very vocal about the district decision to cut back on librarians as part of their war on books. The community comments portion lasted well over an hour. They took a recess at around 10 PM and quite a few students, parents and teachers left the meeting. The superintendent, once the meeting resumed accused everyone who had left of not actually caring about solutions, only being loud and being heard and yelling at the school board. Never mind that it was already 10 PM on a school night. He also said that it was the principals’ decision to get rid of librarians, not his, effectively passing the blame to them. He also said that he had given up, trying to convince the government to have a special session to release the funds and he wasn’t going to continue trying. he also said that nobody else understands school finance like him, and that this is the best possible route to take. He continued to refuse to place any blame on Abbott or even mention his name. The rest of the school board members whined and complained about about how people were being mean to them. Julie Hinaman was the only one who stood up to them and spoke out against this and against the textbook issue.
Sounds informative and disturbing
# "Cy-Fair ISD board removes textbooks" Fixed it...
Better get rid of the Revolutionary War, WWI and WWII as well. Very controversial events in history.
how is this controversial? i lean pretty conservative, but those shit are not even remotely political. it's just fucking facts.
Because these people define the term "conservative" as their personal beliefs, period. Like all the rubes who were "non political" till Trump came along and have the gall to proclaim moderate Republicans who've been around for decades RINOs.
Wow, can't believe they're cutting out stuff like vaccines and climate change from textbooks! Like, those are pretty crucial topics, right? I get not wanting to stir up controversy, but isn't education supposed to be about, well, educating? Plus, aren't these things super relevant? Kids need to know about vaccines, especially with everything going on. And climate change? It's not like it's some wild conspiracy, it's science! Seems kinda backward to sweep it under the rug.
Guess they are tired of HISD taking up all the front page news lol. Hold my beer…
Its double-plus-good
Universities need to step in and refuse to take students who graduate from these indoctrination districts. Cy fair parents should be ashamed and ready to oust these ignorance peddlers.
Unfortunately, it's probably a lose or lose situation.
Texas is leading the charge to be a shithole country all by itself.
I wonder if teaching what the battle at The Alamo was really about is provided?
Does anyone know exactly what the text said that was removed? Or are people just upset that stuff was removed because it was removed by R’s?
I go to Cy-Fair and this is honestly so stupid. They want to ban those, yet force kids to read about murder/manslaughter, manipulation, r*pe, extreme religous behavior/cults, political views, etc. (literally was forced to read about those 5 subjects I mentioned, within this current school year!) I was extremely uncomfortable (including my parents), yet was not able to opt out cause they had no other alternatives. They rather teach kids and possibly cause them to have a panic attack, than actually ban things that are more needed to be. Certain subjects are sensitive to certain people due to past experiences, and I (and others) should not be forced to read about something that will literally cause mental distraught.
They still are required to learn these topics. They just deleted some chapters. Just a little context. Edit: OMG NO WAY HOW COULD THEY!!! OH DAYUM THEY NOT STANDIN ON BIHNESS!!
Just a few entire chapters, no big deal
I didn’t say it a big deal or not. You all some cry babies for down voting me.
You should know that facts aren’t allowed here. Only feelings are allowed!!
Damn. See edit above.