“Lawbreaking Teachers”

Lawbreaking teachers like this is one reason why Texans support school choice. #txlege #txed https://t.co/mA4tClfgwL

— Texas GOP (@TexasGOP) March 18, 2022

A) It’s not a law. It’s an advisory opinion by the AG. By law such an opinion cannot be used to support a criminal complaint. A law was proposed in the last legislative session. It was defeated. Paxton’s opinion and Abbott’s directive have almost no legal ground to stand on. The investigations by COS can’t lead to termination of parental rights (a civil action) for the same reasons.

B) Texans do not support school choice. What they want is equitable funding of schools, which they still don’t have. That they still don’t have that is on them; ignorance is a self-inflicted wound. But it’s also on the Texas GOP.

C) Teachers who refuse to report their trans students to CPS are doing God’s work. CPS employees should refuse to investigate, but that further weakens an agency that needs all the help it can get. Besides, it’s easy for me to tell you to quit your job on principles. I don’t have to pay your bills.

Assholes (the Texas GOP, I mean).

Breaking the law would be violating our code of ethics to do no harm to children. Teachers do not work for the governor and the indicted @KenPaxtonTX opinions aren’t worth the paper they are written on. Come at my org, come at me, but don’t mess with my Texas Teachers. ZC

— Texas AFT (@TexasAFT) March 19, 2022

This rural Texan does not. What school choice will rural Texans have? Fund public schools, teacher pay raise, more educators at the table with txlege.

— Shae 🍁 🕊 for 🇺🇦 (@Maple4373) March 19, 2022

I wonder why Texas has a hard time finding teachers.https://t.co/uURLAnbMju

— Chris Jones 🇺🇦 (@cjones47) March 20, 2022