At schools across Houston, students and parents protest Texas Education Agency's takeover of state's

[RandySF]

HOUSTON — The chants began two minutes before the first bell at Sinclair Elementary School.

“I don’t know what I’ve been told. TEA is really cold,” nine students and their parents, some holding donuts and coffee, chanted.

The crowd of about 20 gathered in front of the Houston Independent School District campus to rally against the Texas Education Agency’s takeover of the state’s largest school system. Parents questioned the state’s intentions behind the takeover and expressed a variety of worries, from concerns about an overhaul of funding that would affect all the district’s schools and programs to a lack of clarity from the state about what it is doing and why.

“The biggest question is really if the school district was struggling five, 10 years ago but has made significant improvements … why would you stir things up now?” George Frey, father of one Sinclair student, said. “Why are we doing this?”




https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/06/houston-school-state-takeover-protest/

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

1. Houston needs to secede from Texas.

Maybe get San Antonio to join them. Austin might be a tougher go as the capital of the current state, but San Antonio and Houston seceding together is entirely doable. Although it would be amusing for the state capital to go with them. Better yet, it would take a good chunk of the Texas economy with them.

Call the new state Texas Real (actual Texas).

Nothing else has worked to bring reason to the state, so that may be the only measure that would reflect the will of their voters, at long last.