We parents are attending these meetings to challenge the status quo because the status quo is not working for our students.” “In Round Rock, 8% of African American students and 11% of Hispanic students perform math on grade level, according to the 2021 STARR Performance data. “Parents such as myself, are increasingly participating in school board meetings because we see firsthand the detrimental effects that ‘woke-ism’ has had on our schools and our children,” Salinas continued. He said the teachers “are under the impression that parents are coming to these meetings in the spirit of political divisiveness, when this is not the case.” “The opinions of the teacher who recently spoke at the board meeting illustrate the utter disconnect some teachers have with their communities,” Orlando Salinas, a father of one child in Round Rock ISD and other children too young for public schools, told Fox News. Leander ISD pulled 11 books for sexual content earlier this month. Krista Tyler, instructional technology specialist at Grisham Middle School in the Round Rock Independent School District (ISD) read the poem at the Leander ISD school board meeting Dec. Concerned parents have spoken up about these books and others in Leader and Round Rock, as well as in other school districts, such as Fairfax County, Virginia. Unhinged /OJ1knzYHdo- Libs of Tik Tok DecemTwitter / Twitter / disgusted and disheartened that there are teachers in our school district who think it is OK to mock parents for their religious beliefs, and for demanding that children not have access to books in the library or classroom that have pornographic illustrations and graphic descriptions of sex acts,” Dustin Clark, a father of four children in Round Rock public schools who got arrested for speaking out in a school board meeting, told Fox News.Ĭlark mentioned two of the books in question: “Lawn Boy,” by Jonathan Evison, which includes long sections of a boy reminiscing about explicit experiences he had at 10 years old and “Gender Queer: A Memoir,” by Maia Kobabe, which includes photos of sexual acts between a boy and a man. Twitter / in Round Rock ISD and Leander ISD expressed outrage over Tyler’s poem.Īfter parents spoke out against CRT & books containing pornographic content, this teacher demeaned them with a Dr. “Then how, I am wondering, did we even get here./ They growl at our meetings, all hawing and humming,/ ‘We must stop this indoctrination from coming!’/ They’ve come for the books and the bonds and what for?/ Their kids don’t even attend Leander schools anymore./ Bring back our books, maintain decorum, good grief./ Wouldn’t it be nice to have a meeting in peace?” Krista Tyler speaks at a Leander ISD school board meeting. “These bigots don’t get to choose for us, that’s clear,” Tyler’s poem continues. “These kooks hated reading, the whole reading season./ Please don’t ask why, no one quite knows the reason./ It could be perhaps critical thinking causes fright./ It could be their heads aren’t screwed on just right./ But whatever the reason, their brains or their fright,/ they can’t follow policy in plain black and white.” “Everyone in Leander liked reading a lot/ but some evangelicals in Leader did not,” Tyler begins. Krista Tyler, instructional technology specialist at Grisham Middle School in the Round Rock Independent School District (ISD) read the poem at the Leander ISD school board meeting Dec. Seuss-style poem mocking “evangelicals” and parents who have expressed concerns about books they call pornographic. Parents in the Austin, Texas, area expressed outrage after a technology teacher read a Dr. Peter Dinklage slams ‘politically wrong’ critics of his Herve Villechaize role Virginia school district 'indoctrinating' kids with critical race theory, parents claim in lawsuit What's the story with eggnog? Where it came from, how it's served
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