Houston school libraries turned into 'discipline centers' in 'hostile takeover' by state

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In an unwelcomed assertion of state power, the Texas Education Agency has implemented a "New Education System" in the Houston Independent School District, re...

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This smells like a way for Republicans to drive people to home schooling and then cut public school funding.

Also helps raise more uneducated and poor voters to support the Republican party.

Worse. It’s part of the school to prison pipeline. So they are basically going to remove the right to vote from these students in the future.

Remember when a certain demographic was saying that every school shooting was an inside job by the left to push gun control? The question I always had was....who actually stands to gain from implying public education is dangerous?

That's right: private schools. And who was the secretary of education at the time these conspiracies were getting pushed? That's right, Betsy DeVos - charter school proponent.

That's my counter-conspiracy. I don't think it's true, but it makes a hell of a lot more sense than an anti-gun protest.

That’s exactly it. They even state it bluntly in their 2025 dictatorship manual.