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As Pride Week gets underway in one Texas school district, the states attorney general has declared the whole event illegal.
In a stern letter to the Austin Independent School District which he also posted on Twitter Attorney General Ken Paxton said the week-long celebration of LGBTQ students violates state laws against teaching human sexuality without parents permission.
By hosting Pride Week, your district has, at best, undertaken a week-long instructional effort in human sexuality without parental consent, Mr Paxton wrote on Tuesday. Or, worse, your district is cynically pushing a week-long indoctrination of your students that not only fails to obtain parental consent, but subtly cuts parents out of the loop. Either way, you are breaking state law.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/anger-as-texas-attorney-general-declares-pride-week-illegal/ar-AAVsjUR?ocid=msedgntp
More here:
Doss Elementary School administrators threatened over Pride Week activities
School administrators at Doss Elementary in Austin ISD are receiving death threats because of events they are hosting during the districts Pride Week.
The threats started after the agenda for the week intended to help LGBTQ students and families feel welcome at school was posted on Twitter. Conservative accounts widely shared the agenda, which included an activity called community circles.
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Online critics said the district was encouraging students not to tell their parents what they were learning during Pride Week.
The district wanted to promote privacy during these conversations so students felt comfortable sharing with each other, Steenport said. It doesnt mean dont tell your parents.
Steenport said the activities offered at his school and promoted throughout the district are age appropriate. The school also sends out the agenda to parents beforehand so they can see what topics will be discussed and opt their students out if they want.
https://www.kut.org/education/2022-03-23/austin-isd-lgbtq-death-threats
So Paxton is outright lying... Yet again... Equal rights is simply not something today's repugs believe in. They instead believe in outlawing and dehumanizing anyone who is not straight, white and male.
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)It's just Texas being Texas.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)intheflow
(28,407 posts)If it were all of Texas, this school in Austin wouldn't be hosting Pride Week.
Botany
(70,291 posts)Me = dumb ass straight white guy. BTW parents do not get to pick their children's sexuality.
It is what it is.
Initech
(99,915 posts)Free speech for me, but not for thee.
Mad_Machine76
(24,355 posts)The Great Dictator?! The Grand Poobah?
Initech
(99,915 posts)dalton99a
(81,073 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)Oneironaut
(5,462 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)He can kindly go get fucked. And so can Fox News.
DFW
(54,057 posts)He left the category of "embarrassment to Texas" behind long ago.
Initech
(99,915 posts)DBoon
(22,288 posts)Making Texas more like Russia every day
Chipper Chat
(9,635 posts)Call jamie harrison.
obamanut2012
(25,911 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,485 posts)Fuck the US Constitution. It is not exist in Texas.
Phoenix61
(16,954 posts)rownesheck
(2,343 posts)a lot of Texas dudes work at being dickheads. I live here and see it all the time.
Phoenix61
(16,954 posts)musclecar6
(1,681 posts)Texas. If one is not a heterosexual, Im surprised Texas just doesnt put you in prison and be done with it.
liberalgunwilltravel
(316 posts)Why is this criminal who has been indicted on multiple federal felony fraud counts still free and in office?
Norbert
(6,030 posts)it's the type of people the KKKQunan people like.
ificandream
(9,196 posts)IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,806 posts)and I can't wait for it to happen.
jaxexpat
(6,703 posts)......and his stance, fake and fabricated as it is, looms large in the minds of his very base base.
Norbert
(6,030 posts)I'd love to see Paxton's head explode.
Grins
(7,134 posts)Going after kids, books, and now parents may be the proverbial straw on the camels back. Blatant assaults that will cause decent people to say, Enough!
And if they dont, there are no decent people there.
vercetti2021
(10,150 posts)You hate us cuz you ain't us honey. Also we aren't going anywhere bitch!