Incident At A Small School Board

People's Convoy lead organizer Brian Brase yelled that the "Capitol building is our building" and said American taxpayers "had the right" to toss up their feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk https://t.co/4zTRw97H79

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Same energy:

"This resolution affirms that educators, not politicians, should make decisions about teaching and learning, and supports the rights and academic freedom of faculty to design courses, curriculum, and pedagogy, and to conduct related scholarly research," reads part of the resolution, which is nonbinding. "This resolution affirms the fundamental rights of faculty to academic freedom in its broadest sense, inclusive of research and teaching of race and gender theory."

The document also states UT faculty "resolutely rejects" attempts by outside groups, including lawmakers and the system's board of regents, to dictate content.

Patrick said during a news conference at the Capitol Friday that the resolution is another signal the "woke left ... has gone too far."

"We are the ones who pay their salaries," he said, referring to members of the Texas Legislature. "The parents are the ones who pay tuition. And of course, we're going to have a say in what the curriculum is. Of course, we're going to have a say on behalf of the parents. If there are issues that the parents are unhappy with, that the taxpayer are unhappy with, or the Legislature is unhappy with or the Board of Regents."

So it was a contentious school board meeting. Lots of people showed up to scream and yell about masks and CRT and pornography in the libraries (boy did I go to school at the wrong time!), and generally get worked up and shout at people who are volunteers (board members) who do a helluva lotta work and now are treated like shit for not doing what they can’t do (by law) and for not listening to the people who don’t have kids in school but do have opinions.  Stupid, ignorant, baseless opinions, like the Texas Lt. Gov., who thinks his ignorance is a better basis for "proper" education.

You get the idea. Comes a break in the meeting and one of these upstanding citizens walks to the dias where the board secretary (a district employee) has a dish of candy for the board members on the table in front of her. He helps himself to a handful and declares “I paid for that” as justification for his rudeness.

He didn’t pay for it, though. She buys it herself, to bring to the meetings. For the board members, who, as I said, don’t get paid to be board members.

Some people are just proud to be ignorant assholes.