[rickmichaels]

The center had a recording that it was closed throughout the holidays...

Hypocrisy.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Cricket sounds coming from the aCLU who used to whine and complain about Dubya taking away our freedom.

[Secret Agent Man]

You’d think there would be enough male and female teachers in Texas with big enough balls to say ‘Hell no’ and stop this crap from going on in the lone star state.

Texans always say things are different down there. I’d like to see the pushback trend start with them, hard. I mean it’s not like they’re Berkeley or SanFran.

[Kells]

It is a good thing that Texans elected a Republican governor.

[Vaquero]

Texas no less???

sounds like the good people of Texas need to perform an attitude adjustment.

[Maelstorm]

Wake up people public schools are not good for your kids. Teachers are being indoctrinated even in places like Texas. Even in places like WV new teachers are being fed a bunch of leftist crap. School administrators are also homogenizing holidays and implementing pc rules right under the noses of parents in conservative communities. You can’t trust anyone associated with the Marxist educational establishment.

[Clara Lou]

Region 10 includes Dallas, Rockwall, Collin, Kauffman, Hunt, Grayson, Fannin, and Ellis counties. That’s an awfully conservative area, with the possible exception of the city of Dallas. I’ll bet you dollars to donuts that very few in the area are aware of this tripe that someone within this Educational Service Center has included in the training.

[grey_whiskers]

This is an Ayers-and-ilk inspired push, given that they feel they have overhead cover from the Administration.

Let's push back, *HARD*.

Recall that libs want to indoctrinate the young -- and recall the similar demands from the University of Minnesota education department.

But take heart -- Education majors have on average among the lowest SAT scores (correlates to lower IQ in a rough and ready way).

The real answer is to get Sarah into the White House, conservatives into Congress, and utterly defund the NEA and Dept. of Education.

Cheers!

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[Moltke]

"How do we create a better world? How do we do more than simply survive? As educators, we must help people to become committed to social change,"

Uh-huh, that's infinitely better than teaching students grammar and spelling, mathematics, history, chemistry, physics,....oh, those damned Eurotexaweenies...ooops!

[lapsus calami]

 

No surprises there. The Texas Education Agency is loaded with queers and has been for DECADES and they'll cover for each other like it's going out of style. My Dad discovered that fact of life when he was on a TX school board many moons ago. Had a coach at the school that was actually a carpetbagging queer who would work at a school until things got too hot for his activities, resign, get hired someplace else and start the cycle all over again.

 

This fruit was targeting specific boys, buying them all sorts of gifts, suits of clothes and such along with taking boys on overnight trips - probably the oldest pederast trick in the book - and using the opportunity to make his moves on them. What was really suspicious about the trips was that the distances involved for the most part didn't require any overnight stays. It was a small town atmosphere, where a lot of folk were unsophisticated about such things, though some who had been out and about in the world, those being predominately military veterans, had that "coach" figured out for what he was from the get-go but had something of an uphill battle in getting everyone else to understand. When the true nature of this coach and his activities began coming to light a number of parents blew their lids and intended to hunt that guy down and kill him - I'm not exaggerating at all - it was doom on him. Dad worked fast, got the board to finally get rid of him, then advised the queer to beat feet out of the area then and there, within the hour - he wasn't worried about the welfare of the queer as much as keeping his friends and neighbors from getting into worse trouble.

 

Dad and Mom went down to the TEA offices in Austin to see what was needed to get that b@stard's teaching certification pulled - they weren't impressed. Big multi-story office building and for what? Another tax dollar grubbing bureaucracy of questionable purpose that turns out questionable results. They got no traction there - they were passed around from office to office like a hot potato until they got to a high administrator who was an obvious poofter who told my Dad, and I quote "you can't do that - take away a man's right to making a living!". A RIGHT?? Like hell - my folks marched out. Dad mounted a one-man crusade to make sure that fruit never worked at a school again. He kept tabs on the queer through a sports equipment salesman who made his rounds all over the state and whenever the queer landed a job, Dad would get a call from the salesman, then he would notify the school board of that district. On the second go-round after members of an East Texas school board came down to visit with our school district, the queer must have took the hint he was playing a losing game, left the state entirely, moved in with his sisters in Louisiana, which was the last anyone heard of him.

 

Doubt such a strategy would work these days - would probably have the ACLU and every homo activist organization in the nation defending the perv to the hilt while going after the parents.

 

[metmom]

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I just emailed a link to this article to the former Texas Solicitor General who is going to be a candidate for Texas Attorney General after Kay Hutchison loses the gubernatorial primary and resigns her senate seat. He's won lots of landmark cases in the US Supreme Court to roll back leftists especially the ACLU.

Ted Cruz
http://www.tedcruz.org/index.php

Ted leads the firm's U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate practice. He has authored more than 70 U.S. Supreme Court briefs and presented 34 oral arguments, including eight before the U.S. Supreme Court, the most of any other lawyer in Texas.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Ted served as the Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 until May 2008. Ted was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas and, when appointed, was the youngest Solicitor General in the United States.

His litigation experience includes the following:

- Successfully represented Texas before the U.S. Supreme Court in Medellin v. Texas, which held in a landmark 6-3 decision that the World Court cannot bind the U.S. justice system and the President cannot order the state courts to obey the World Court.

- Successfully defended the constitutionality of the Texas Ten Commandments monument before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5-4 in Van Orden v. Perry.

- Authored a U.S. Supreme Court brief for all 50 states successfully defending the Pledge of Allegiance, winning 9-0 in Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow.

- Served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5-4 in LULAC v. Perry.

- Authored a U.S. Supreme Court brief for 31 states successfully defending the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, winning 5-4 in District of Columbia v. Heller.

- Successfully defended the constitutionality of the Texas sexually violent predator civil commitment law before the Texas Supreme Court, winning unanimously in In re Michael Fisher.

- Argued the Texas school finance case before the Texas Supreme Court, winning a unanimous reversal of the trial court's ruling that the system violated the Education Clauses of Texas Constitution.

- For the FTC, briefed and argued In re Buspirone in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, successfully representing the FTC in antitrust litigation alleging several hundred million dollars in damages for anticompetitive manipulation of FDA procedures governing the sale of generic pharmaceuticals.

- At a prior firm, briefed and argued Ford Motor Co. v. United States in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, successfully challenging the U.S. Customs Service's multimillion-dollar assessment in import duties and interest.

- Helped assemble the Bush legal team, devise strategy, and draft pleadings in the Florida and U.S. Supreme Courts during the 2000 Florida presidential recounts, winning twice in the U.S. Supreme Court.

[Dr. North]

Teacher certification has become compulsory indoctrination.

[piytar]

BTFL

[RichInOC]

“What did we tell you?”

[Albion Wilde]

..."warned that educators must not define education as the basic skills. 'How do we create a better world? How do we do more than simply survive? As educators, we must help people to become committed to social change,' "

So how come they discriminate against people who want to change society to traditional American Christian standards?

Accommodating all standards equals no standards at all.

[ronnyquest]

So, the agents of societal change for the advancement of the homosexual agenda have infiltrated the Texas boards of education. Sounds like they need a Joe McCarthy down there.