AMES: Texas Schools Double Standard for Student Behavior

PART VI in a Series: Will education opportunities for all Texas youth be great again? By Bill Ames Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas  The Good news? School choice legislation will drain the public education swamp.

DESOTO (TX) HIGH SCHOOL Sept. 23 2016

Prior to the Dallas-area Desoto versus Cedar Hill high school football game on September 23^rd most of the DeSoto cheerleaders took a knee" during the National Anthem disrespecting the Anthem and the American flag.  Their actions were supportive of NFL football player Colin Kaepernicks anti-police protest. This protest came in the wake of five Dallas police officers being murdered by anti-police terrorist Micah Johnson in July.

Dallas neighborhoods display a forest of Back the Blue" yard signs.  Trees are wrapped in wide blue ribbons.

In spite of the underlying tragedy Desoto Superintendent Dr. David Harris issued a statement that he respects the students First Amendment rights" and called the action a peaceful non-confrontational action for students to communicate their frustrations and fears. Democrat Texas Senator Royce West jumped on the bandwagon commenting

Young people are expressing their frustration with whats going on in America.  It should be a wake up call for all of us that weve got to give them a reason to understand that they can trust the criminal justice system."

ARCHER CITY (TX) HIGH SCHOOL November 11 2016

During a regional volleyball tournament in Snyder Texas Archer City a predominately white high school played Hispanic dominated Fort Hancock. Archer City students chanted build the wall build the wall" and waved Trump-Pence signs in support of the President-elects immigration policy. The negative response was immediate.  Archer City Superintendent C. D. Knobloch stated

We have been in contact with Fort Hancock administration and have made apologies.  They are receptive to our apologies.  Comments such as this are not representative of our school and community.  This type of comment is extremely unacceptable and will not be tolerated."

Knobloch added that students involved will be disciplined. THE DOUBLE STANDARD This article is not meant to condone nor condemn the behaviors of either group of students. Rather the article is to point out the stunning double standard in Texas politically correct school leadership. Think about the message these superintendents are sending to their Texas students.

• Students it is okay to disrespect the National Anthem and the American flag while supporting the anti-police movement in a metropolitan area that is still reeling from the murder of five of its police officers.
• Students it is not okay to support the Republican President-elect and his immigration policy and such behavior results in punishment for Mr. Trumps supporters.  No 1st Amendment rights for these deplorables"!

Extreme liberal bias and political correctness is just one example of the indoctrination of our students that is occurring in Texas public schools. Environmentalism and climate change are being taught as a pagan religion. Likewise evolution.

• History revisionists have descended into Texas schools with anti-American history curriculum rewrites such as the CSCOPE follow on and Advanced Placement history.
• Multiculturalism trumps patriotism.
• Kids are no longer taught phonics-based reading and cursive writing resulting in semi-literate graduates.
• Common Core math is a jumble that only the standards writers understand.
• Core academics are sacrificed as the focus changes to modifying students attitudes and behaviors.
• Calculators replace multiplication tables.
• Computers replace teachers.
• Guns are bad and should be banned.

BREAKING NEWS Two 10th grade students at Marshall high school in San Antonio school staged a skit The Assassination of Danald Trump under the watchful eye of their teacher. In spite of parents outrage the offending students have not been suspended as of this writing and the teacher is back in her classroom. But there is hope. SCHOOL CHOICE The Texas 85^th Legislature which will convene in January 2017 is working hard to pass an Education Savings Account and School Choice bill. Via this legislation mainstream Texas families can liberate their children from the biased politically correct swamp of the public education establishment. And education opportunities for all Texas youth will be great again. Read more by Bill Ames:

• PART V  PUBLIC SCHOOLS USE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS & DIVERSITY TO ATTACK AMERICAN FAMILIES CULTURE
• PART IV  Implement School Choice to Enhance Texas Public School Progress
• PART III  Public Schools Seek to Limit Accountability by Reducing-Eliminating Student Testing
• PART II  More than School Testing: THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON NEXT GENERATION ASSESSMENTS & ACCOUNTABILITY
• PART I  Texas Public Schools De-Emphasize Academic Knowledge in Favor of Unproven Fads
• Texas Educators Ideology & Visions" Penalize Students
• AMES: Texas Trounces the Lefts War on History
• Education UPDATE: Texas ISDs Should Comply with Texas Social Studies Standards
• CSCOPE The Obamacare of Texas Public Education
• A Series on CSCOPE Part 3: Common Core Project Based Learning Damages Texas Students

Bill Ames is an education activist who lives in Dallas within the boundaries of the Richardson Independent School District. RISDs position is that disrespect of the National Anthem and the American flag in support of the anti-police movement is an expression of 1st Amendment rights with no consequences to the offending student. Ames reviewed CSCOPE lessons as part of the State Board of Educations Ad Hoc Committee Project. His work in his local school district resulted in Board reviews of both its Social Studies Curriculum and Project Based Learning implementation as well as securing a superintendent commitment to modify the AP History course to be Texas standards (TEKS) compliant. Ames book TEXAS TROUNCES THE  LEFTS WAR ON HISTORY"  (WNAenterprises.com) tells the story of his experience in developing Texas U. S. history standard in 2009-2010. He welcomes reader comments at billames@prodigy.net