Posted on 03/09/2013 3:12:45 AM PST by 56newblog
“You parents do not need to know what is being taught. Rick Perry and Grover Norquist have made marvelous improvements in the Texas Education System thru grade 12.”
While it is true that Education operates independent of the governor, the governor can still show some leadership here, and fight this crap. And maybe he has, but if so, I haven’t heard about it.
Rick Perry (or whoever is gov) doesn't choose or have anything to do with the text books used in Texas, either.
Having said that, I live in the TX school board district that the burkas were worn in...Lumberton ISD. The board member who was re-elected last Nov. doesn't live in that school district and homeschools his kids.
He should be paying more attention to the office he ran for! It seems strange that he would be so concerned that he would homeschool his kids and runs to be on the TX School Board but ignores what he campaigned for.
It isn't Rick Perry's job!
Forgive me but I believe that the shots were not mandatory but rather an ‘opt out’ choice.
Big difference with a small distinction.
I get your point but this one had been beat to death at the time.
“Forgive me but I believe that the shots were not mandatory but rather an ‘opt out’ choice.”
Initially the shots, essentially, were mandatory, as it was a total pain to opt out (i.e., you had to lie about your beliefs). He eased up a bit on opt-out, but ONLY AFTER, people screamed like mad. He finally dropped it, just before the state legislature was going to kill it, by a VETO-PROOF majority.
What worried us was why he felt so compelled to PUSH this on little Texas girls.
...and by the way, the media never did go after his adviser’s ties to Merck.
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