School is back, but there are a lot of kids who are not, at least not in public schools.
"I'm not surprised at all" said Katy ISD parent Bonnie Anderson, "Parents saw what their kids were learning, and a lot more was revealed about the curriculum, and the public education system. I know many parents who decided not to send their kids back to public school. They've either switched to 'home school' or they've gone to private school."
But not everyone can do that. Auguste Meyrat is a parent, and a Dallas based teacher who writes for The Federalist, and he says public schools have only themselves to blame.
"The fact that parents are waking up to this, the fact that many are willing to really pull their kids out of the system, that you have a growing movement for school choice, and the fact that this is getting a lot more attention in the media also helps switch the conversation" he said.
And sadly, because the left's radical woke agenda, public schools have become battlegrounds, with the kids caught in the middle.
"The leftist indoctrination, and the Critical Race Theory, and the pornographic books in the library" Meyrat told KTRH, "I think that's what gets a lot of attention in the media, but if we're talking about real schools, real people in their neighborhoods, I think the big issue is just the lack of rigor, and policies on technology."
If all of that isn't bad enough, you can add to it a shortage of teachers.
"They're some concerns out there that do still have teachers a bit worried, and they definitely do not like being used as political pawns" said Zeph Capo with the Texas American Federation of Teachers, "But, many of them are still there for the kids, and focused on what's best about our public schools, and that's the students we serve."
With the work being done by Texas lawmakers, as well as fired up parents, the hope is that public schools will get back on track.
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