Posted on 11/13/2021 9:00:00 AM PST by TigerClaws
Republicans hold America’s reddest large urban constituency in Tarrant County, Texas. The locals consider its seat, Fort Worth, a “Mecca for conservatives.” If any place in America should be beyond the reach of progressivism, it is these 900 square miles of Lone Star land. And yet, a recent incident within the Keller Independent School District has revealed cracks in the red paint of Texas’ conservative Potemkin village.
On Oct. 26, Kathy May, a mother of four children in the district, tweeted pictures from Gender Queer: a Memoir, a book found in the library of Timber Creek High School. The illustrated novel shows young people participating in sexual activity, aptly described by parents as hardcore pornography of underage queer sex. “I moved here from California to get away from this,” May said.
As parents militated, the school district issued a weak statement that copped to stupidity rather than malice: “There was no indication from the book’s description that it contained graphic illustrations.” In other words, not a single librarian and or administrator had actually peeked at the pages. Little wonder why “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach” turned out to be a losing slogan for Virginia Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe.
In the end, the school removed the book from its shelves. But parents are still angry; some are even pushing for legislation to criminally prosecute library and school officials who expose their children to sexually explicit material. They don’t believe that Gender Queer’s circulation was accidental because this is not the first incident.
South of Keller, the Lake Travis Independent School District recently banned Ashley Perez's book Out of Darkness after parents discovered that it contained graphic descriptions of anal sex between teenagers. The novel blends Critical Race Theory—the characters live in the snares of a cruel white society—and literary pornography. The book was available in at least two Texas middle schools, Hudson Bend and Bee Cave. An upset mother read explicit passages from the book during a COVID-related school board meeting, and it was only after video of her speech went viral that administrators were pressured to act.
Parents believe they have few institutional allies in the war for the hearts and minds of their kids. Republican politicians like to provide comments and issue strongly worded letters once a story makes headlines. But when the media doesn’t care, it seems that neither do they. Kris Kittle can’t even get Republican officials to return her calls. The mother of a Keller school district student, Kittle is also an adjunct professor at Dallas Baptist University with a Ph.D. in higher education.
Kittle began homeschooling recently, and the way things are going doesn’t encourage her to place her daughter back in the classroom. According to Kittle, neither Sen. Kelly Hancock (R) nor Rep. Matt Krause (R) have answered several attempts to contact them. “None of them are talking about it.” Tarrant County GOP Chair Rick Barnes seems equally mum about an issue that has parents in an uproar.
To be sure, Gov. Greg Abbott wrote a letter, which was preceded by Krause’s letter announcing an “inquiry” that may or may not actually exist or have any teeth. Kittle and other parents think it’s all bark and no bite. For Republican action to be consistent with Republican rhetoric, they’d call a special session, she said. Despite a flood of emails from parents, however, “they downright refuse to do so.”
While the Texas GOP continues to dawdle, school boards are raising armies to enforce their policies. That’s not hyperbole. Officers from the Round Rock Independent School District (RRISD) Police Department recently arrested two parents.
The arrests followed two separate incidents, CBS-affiliate KTVN reported. In the first case, Dustin Clark, a father and retired Army Captain, told the board that it was illegal for them to pass an unlawful tax increase while district police arbitrarily locked parents out of the meeting. In the second, Jeremy Story, a minister and father of seven, produced evidence that the board had covered up an alleged assault by the superintendent, Hafedh Azaiez, against a mistress. Story was physically prevented from finishing his remarks by police officers operating under orders from the school board president and the superintendent.
The day after the district claims they received Story’s formal legal grievance, he and Clark were simultaneously arrested at their homes, KTVN reported. Both were charged with “disorderly conduct with intent to disrupt a meeting” and jailed overnight at the Williamson County Jail. When NBC-affiliate KXAN asked both the Round Rock board and the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office why a warrant was issued for the two parents instead of a citation, they referred reporters to the RRISD Police Department, even though court documents show the sheriff’s office was the arresting agency. In short, a school district’s police department coordinated with the sheriff’s department to arrest parents at their homes under orders from a school board.
Danielle Weston was elected to Round Rock’s school board last November as an “advocate for basic American values,” but since Sept. 20 she has been fighting the resolutions of her fellow board members to strip her of the duties and powers bestowed upon her by voters for being a dissident. She says her legal defense has been costly and that Texas Republicans are nowhere to be found. “I can’t get anywhere with my state senator, or Greg Abbott,” she told me, referring to Republican State Sen. Charles Schwertner. “I told his office, I know Schwertner’s chief of staff, and she said, ‘Danielle, we don’t get involved in politics.’”
Statements like that would normally raise a long laugh for their absurdity. But they come at a time when parents across the country are under siege for the crime of protecting their children from radical ideologies and the abusive functionaries overseeing the education system. Even in Republican-controlled Texas.
There was an article on The Daily Caller, I think, that attached something from Twitter that showed some of the cartoons. Wouldn’t be hard to see who authorized getting the book and putting it on the shelf. Toss them and anyone else involved in front of a Grand Jury and charge them with some child porn charges and endangerment. If the place is as Conservative as the article is saying, an indictment wouldn’t be surprising. Even if the case was lost, there’d be enough publicity about it that it could, at least, shame all involved into leaving the place. No reason to have those folks among anyone. Let them all move to Dallas or Houston.
A fish rots from the head down. Let’s go Brandon.
I posted this link on the Texas Board on 11/11. It is to another book, L8R G8TR, found in the Middle School. Is this a good read for 11 year olds?
Keller ISD middle school library book:
https://mobile.twitter.com/anticommiemommy/status/1459000260303409155
A lot of us have known for a while that things would have to get a lot worse before they could get better. Well, they are getting a lot worse. The slow-motion communist coup that has been taking place for the last 100 years is coming to light.
One way to get this crap out of libraries is the CLOSE the libraries. After all, they are a relic from the past anyway, at least in schools. ((and double-bonus, you get rid of the pedophile-enablers, called ‘librarians’))
...but wake me up, please, when the first ‘conservative’ controlled school board does that.
Exactly how is it a Potemkin village?
I've lost count of the number of meetings, roundtables, hearings, etc., where leftist agitators heckled and protested them to the point of closure and the cops where nowhere to be found, much less arresting anyone.
The gist of the article is correct. Texas GOP talks a big game, but rarely delivers. The reason is that they are deeply steeped in globalism and their relations with corporate America. When conservatism conflicts with corporate goals, they always break for corporatism. Add in a measure of the German legalistic mentality, and you arrive at Texas conservatism.
Half the country had constitutional carry before Texas. They support moslem immigration, the Chinese, the open border, etc. They love windmills and Texas froze in the dark. They support global warming if there is cash in it.
Bush, Abbott, Cruz, Cornyn, etc. That is what the party there generally produces. They are deeply out of step with the population. The widespread non-reaction to globo-homo is typical. In schools silence. In pedophile story hour, more silence. Hopefully that can be rectified eventually, but they again showed their colors during covid and the lockdowns. Abbott and the Texas GOP went full authoritarian for way too long. And they have also bedded down now with big tech.
The thing that makes Texas an interesting lab, is that the Texas GOP runs the show there, so they cannot blame democrats.
It’s a Potemkin village because the Texas GOP fakes being conservative. They will put cartoon books of two school age boys sucking each other penises in the library. Go look at the photos. But the cops don’t arrest who put it there. The prosecutors look the other way.
But they swing into action to arrest parents who complain.
Same with drag pervert library story hour. The protesters got the law enforcement, not the pedophiles and librarians.
A refreshing taste of olden America...
This.
GOP is the fake opposition. The Washington Generals of politics. There to entertain but ultimately lose.
Any parent dating to question why kids should be exposed to perversions and leftist brainwashing is told to leave it to the experts. Treated as a domestic terrorist.
They want us to shut up and not slow down the indoctrination machine.
Seems to me that the author is burying the lede in this piece. He’s reporting that parents are awake and making changes in the red bastion of Tarrant county, and that even in Round Rock (!) a solid conservative was elected to the school board, and even better, there’s a huge increase in home schooling.
So, a bunch of good news. Of course the state party, and the Bushite Abbot are no help, but who expected them to be? The conservative/populist focus on local elections — city councils, school boards, county commissioners and judges is already bearing fruit. The trick will be to not get frustrated, and keep pushing.
There’s work to be done, but these things should give encouragement to the good guys. The next push needs to be within the local GOP party apparatus at the county level. Eject the squishes, and start supporting a newly energized group of local candidates.
Pretty succinct commentary on the state of the gop wing of the uniparty.
Culture matters. As does advocacy.
Colonel West for Governor! Abbott talks big, but does little. Rinos in State legislature are democrats in sheep’s clothing.
“Modern” day librarians, like teachers of the same ilk, are being “educated” and indoctrinated by progressive, Marxist, commie professors. The result is inevitable, and you almost can’t blame them, except if they had any moral foundation, they would reject their professor’s radicalism.
Got it
The article seems to be written by someone in NYC that knows nothing about Texas.
Lake Travis,”south of Keller”
Lake Travis is over 200 miles “south of Keller”
Almost Everyone who lives in Keller moved there from out of state. Its not “texans”.
The article seems to be written by someone in NYC that knows nothing about Texas.
Lake Travis,”south of Keller”
Lake Travis is over 200 miles “south of Keller”
Almost Everyone who lives in Keller moved there from out of state. Its not “texans”.
I bet no one knew the school board they elected had actual police powers but apparently they do. Meanwhile Governor, all hat and no cattle Abbott, stays silent.
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