Texas legislators encourage school boards to leave state association for ‘promoting harmful woke ideology’

A gaggle of Texas state representatives signed a letter urging each school board to leave the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB), alleging the group is selling a “harmful woke ideology.” 

“Today, I and other #txlege colleagues asked every school board in Texas to leave TASB.  By remaining in @tasbnews, they are forcing our constituent’s tax dollars to be weaponized against them, their values, and their children by promoting harmful woke ideology,” Texas State Rep. Brian Harrison tweeted on Monday.

The letter started by mentioning how state representatives had been “shocked” that the TASB took a yr to leave the National School Boards Association (NSBA) after that they had compared parents speaking up at school board conferences to home terrorists.

“We were shocked last year that it took the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) almost an entire year to leave the National School Boards Association (NSBA) after it sent an indefensible letter equating parental involvement at school board meetings to “heinous actions” which “may very well be the equal to a type of home terorism” and called on federal law enforcement to potentially target parents,” the letter said. 

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TASB launched a 13-page doc of up to date authorized steering for public faculties to surrounding transgender college students, which included sports activities participation, pupil information, and loo insurance policies.
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The state lawmakers highlighted the TASB new transgender pointers. 

“This month TASB released new legal guidelines related to transgender policies in schools. This dangerous legal advisory appears to encourage school districts to refrain from reporting child abuse and to obscure information regarding children exhibiting gender dysphoria from their parents,” they wrote. “In the guidance, TASB also may be encouraging schools to violate Texas’s recent law, the ‘Save Girls’ Sports Act,’ and allow biological males to participate in girls’ sports.”

The Texas State Capitol is seen throughout a rally in opposition to anti-abortion and voter suppression legal guidelines on October 2, 2021 in Austin, Texas. The Women’s March and different teams organized marches throughout the nation to protest the brand new abortion legislation in Texas.
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TASB launched a 13-page doc of up to date authorized steering for public faculties to surrounding transgender college students, which included sports activities participation, pupil information, and loo insurance policies. The doc additionally steered {that a} school proceed with warning when a mother or father is not supportive of their kid’s gender identification however to look for an answer that might fulfill all events. 

“It may be possible to reach an agreement with the student and parent that satisfies everyone: for example, schools have instructed staff to call a transgender student by the student’s preferred name at school but to refer to the student by the name on the birth certificate in all communications with parents,” the doc said. 

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The state lawmakers insisted that contemplating all of the information they offered, local school boards should leave the TASB. 

TASB is a state lobbying group for school boards that gives information and steering to native school boards and assist set up and foyer on their behalf on the state home. According to their web site, all 1,024 Texas school boards are TASB members and have been for 30 steady years. 

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland 
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The letter from the Texas state representatives comes after greater than half of the nation’s state school board associations withdrew from the NSBA for the reason that controversy over the letter they despatched to the Justice Department.

The NSBA’s notorious letter to the Justice Department in September 2021 requested for dad and mom protesting at school board conferences to be federally looked into, saying school officers had been dealing with threats and violence at conferences. The letter requested that actions ought to be examined beneath the Patriot Act as home terrorism. The NSBA later apologized for the letter’s language.