it’s not just public schools. There is a very big push to turn Texas back into a blue state. Many parts of it already are. I lived in San Antonio for 6 years and honestly am happy to be gone (except for missing fabulous TexMex) Castro is doing his best to turn the city of the Alamo into a liberal mecca of dependency that can be counted on for democratic votes.
While our laws are quite uniform in Texas since we don’t have “home rule” (thank God)- the conservative nature of the state varies from county to county.
For the most part this IS indeed a conservative state. The problem (regarding schos) is that nanny state “conservatives” are on the school boards (a few exceptions).
I live in a county that went about 70% against Ozero both times, but the school board here won’t even entertain arming teachers or faculty members (even though state law already gives them authority to do so).
This past school year I worked very hard to have our kids’ private school set reasonable policies and procedures to allow faculty and parents with CHLs to carry at school and they ended up approving just a few non teacher faculty members and NO parents.
This despite the fact that I was on a 6 person security committe and it took me three months to get a couple of people on it to secure a unanimous recommendation to the Board.
Not to mention that we directly pay for their salaries and building, etc.
I worked numerous hours on this providing legal counsel with no charge. All I wanted was a safe place for my kids and a school to refect in its policies the values we cherish at home.
The Board shot down our recommendation in a single meeting (closed off to the committee)/”.
I promptly j formed them my kids would be home schooled next year.