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Showing Original Post only (View all)A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrinating kids. Then she read the curriculum. [View all]
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/texas-granbury-isd-school-board-courtney-gore/Weeks after winning a school board seat in her deeply red Texas county, Courtney Gore immersed herself in the districts curriculum, spending her nights and weekends poring over hundreds of pages of lesson plans that she had fanned out on the coffee table in her living room and even across her bed. She was searching for evidence of the sweeping national movement she had warned on the campaign trail was indoctrinating schoolchildren.
Gore, the co-host of a far-right online talk show, had promised that she would be a strong Republican voice on the nonpartisan school board. Citing small town, conservative Christian values, she pledged to inspect educational materials for inappropriate messages about sexuality and race and remove them from every campus in the 7,700-student Granbury Independent School District, an hour southwest of Fort Worth. Over the years our American Education System has been hijacked by Leftists looking to indoctrinate our kids into the progressive way of thinking, and yes, theyve tried to do this in Granbury ISD, she wrote in a September 2021 Facebook post, two months before the election. I cannot sit by and watch their twisted worldview infiltrate Granbury ISD.
But after taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found and didnt find.
The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist. Children were not being sexualized, and she could find no examples of critical race theory, an advanced academic concept that examines systemic racism. Shed examined curriculum related to social-emotional learning, which has come under attack by Christian conservatives who say it encourages children to question gender roles and prioritizes feelings over biblical teachings. Instead, Gore found the materials taught children how to be a good friend, a good human.
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A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrinating kids. Then she read the curriculum. [View all]
Nevilledog
May 2024
OP
maga news sources fail them once again. They are perpetually bewildered when reality is not what they thought. . . . .nt
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2024
#1
Halfway through the story. Wanted to say thanks for posting before it slips my mind.
Torchlight
May 2024
#2
No one but right-wing white evangelicals expected anything wrong with the curriculum.
Lonestarblue
May 2024
#4
The trigger? The election is over. Now she can sit back because there's no reform to do.
Hermit-The-Prog
May 2024
#19
Nah, she's a hardcore rightwinger just hoping to be louder than the others.
Think. Again.
May 2024
#38
The article mentions that she received backlash and threats from her former supporters
Ohioboy
May 2024
#18
Great article. This lady found she'd been fed a load of Texas horseshit & went public w the facts
Hekate
May 2024
#20
"Instead, Gore found the materials taught children "how to be a good friend, a good human."'
viva la
May 2024
#26
Hah I wondered the same....she seemed too insightful and had too much critical thinking skills...
Lucky Luciano
May 2024
#43