What damn business is this for the school?!
Posted on 09/10/2021 7:55:21 PM PDT by Rummyfan
In a year where attendance on campus or virtually has turned into a discussion for lawmakers, every student counts for districts.
The Austin Independent School District anticipated hitting more than 77,000 students this year but just shared enrollment is below 74,000.
District leaders are tracking attendance in a way that’s alarming some parents of faith.
“I was shocked and disappointed,” said Lisa Shapiro. “I think it’s an absolute intrusion by government into religion.”
Shapiro is talking about a form that went out to parents and their students recently about celebrating Rosh Hashanah. The letter asks for the date the holiday was observed, where the student traveled and the associated activity. They are questions Shapiro found oddly specific.
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What damn business is this for the school?!
Very creepy. Will they do this for Christmas?
Nunyadabiz should be the entry submitted
Beaurocrats gonna beaurocrat.
The parsing of “individual religious rite” from corporate worship is total unconstitutional.
I’ll bet every leftist in Austin know the islam holidays though, so they don’t need to inquire. The left also can’t just gladly accept the gift they’ve been given. I saw an article about one, “Former Refugee Becomes First Black Woman to Win Miss Ireland, Complains About Racism”, and you can give that a look at Summit. The only racist is her, and she knows where the door is. And Texas is close enough to Mexico to drop the Austinites over the wall, fence, whatever.
It wouldn’t shock me.
Saw an article about homeschooling the other day. One family pictured was black and the mom (who used to be a principal) was teaching her 3 older kids (4th is under 1yo) at home and said they’ve all shown improvement. Other mothers in article agreed. We don’t need GOVERNMENT schools, they need us!
Ping.
Can’t keep people dependent if they think for themselves.
NOYFB is proper response to any government form.
When I got the long form Census in 2000, I answered name—location—number in household.
EVERYTHING else==N O Y B...line by line.
Sent it in.
Got another form with nastygram demanding I comply.
THAT FORM is still somewhere in my 4 drawer file.
Make counties reduce property taxes also-—schools NOT filled up.
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