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Texas first grader traumatized by poster of "different colored children holding hands"; school trustee works to remove such 'ideology' from classrooms

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Wait a moment, what is “a Christian restaurant”?
Haven't you seen all the restaurants and other small businesses that go to church on Sunday? It's probably why they need such big buildings, to fit all the other smaller buildings in.
Kinda ties up traffic on the surrounding streets a bit, but it's worth it, because you know, FREEDOM!
 
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This is a nonsensical demand for evidence that the poster suggested doesn’t exist.
Oh, are there not minutes of the meeting? Did not his source record the entire interview?

If you don't know the answers to these questions; shall we just go with probability and accept it as fact?
 
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Oh, are there not minutes of the meeting? Did not his source record the entire interview?
It was not an interview. It was a public school board meeting that was recorded. I've posted the video and given the relevant time marker for what the trustee said on the topic.
 
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That was my best guess too... except thats its just too sad.
I'm not 100% positive that it wasn't the same sex holding hands under a rainbow.

I suppose that since these few sketchy news sources didn't give any fixin's with this nothing burger; that we'll never experience the full flavor of this "story."
 
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It was not an interview. It was a public school board meeting that was recorded. I've posted the video and given the relevant time marker for what the trustee said on the topic.
Link?
 
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I'm not 100% positive that it wasn't the same sex holding hands under a rainbow.

I suppose that since these few sketchy news sources are didn't give any fixin's with this nothing burger; that we'll never experience the full flavor of this "story."
We had gotten to discussing principles that dont rely on this or that classroom poster. At least I think so. I had asked for clarification on a rather cryptic post, but never got it.
 
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I see now. She used that as an example of how parents have ended up in an uproar, that caused the school to move the child to another class, thereby she's calling for the board to draft a standard that complies with the law.

What's wrong with that?
 
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I see now. She used that as an example of how parents have ended up in an uproar, that caused the school to move the child to another class, thereby she's calling for the board to draft a standard that complies with the law.

What's wrong with that?
According to the superintendent, the schools are already complying with the law. The wrongness is the idea that 'all belong here' is a political ideology, and the trustee wants to further expand the application of the law to things as anodyne as this message that should properly be part of civics instruction, not banned as ideology.
 
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the idea that 'all belong here' is a political ideology,
Where did she say that?

She used the example of where one school compromised to make an exception, rather than adhere to a standard; apprently because there is no standard in place. School principles are generally not attorneys. I say let the board draft a standard, and let the attorneys review it. When parents come in and demand that the law be followed; the principle can provide them with a copy of the standard policy. If they have a problem with the policy; then they can hire an attorney, and take the ISD to court. I think that is a better solution than calling a principle to interpret the law, and thereby putting him in a position where he could be personally sued.
 
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Why would adults cut microphones off, so that other adults didn’t get upset?

They are reading what their children are subject to and are a demonstration for us that its inappropriate in the presense of adults (let alone children)



 
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I see now. She used that as an example of how parents have ended up in an uproar, that caused the school to move the child to another class, thereby she's calling for the board to draft a standard that complies with the law.

What's wrong with that?
The discussion seemed to center around “how do we fully comply with state law without micromanaging each and every poster or item that might cause a problem”?

They talked for about 15 minutes and seemed to have reached a consensus that the ISD was fully compliant with State law and everything was fine and dandy.
 
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Its not meant to be, its an off topic question which I am not obligated to

I too enjoy just saying things (off topic apparently) that I have no interest in backing up in any way.

It's an interesting way to add to a conversation.
 
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If you were say talking about a specific event it would be fairly easy to just name or give a reference to the meeting and date.

So, no it's not that hard to tell people exactly what you are talking about without breaking any of the forums rules.
 
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If you were say talking about a specific event it would be fairly easy to just name or give a reference to the meeting and date.

So, no it's not that hard to tell people exactly what you are talking about without breaking any of the forums rules.
The keywords are PARENTS MIC, PQRN. and SCHOOL BOARDS which is just as easy to toss into a search bar and see what comes up. if I used those, just run with my own words and give it a gander, these were viral events they were not hid off in some corner. If I post something from Fox it will likely be rejected so I try to grab a link from various outlets and when I posted only 1 out of 3 linked appropriately because it censors the news stories here because of the WORD PQRN (which is how the news runs it). Its a pain in the rear.
 
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