Texas takeover raises back-to-school anxiety for Houston students, parents and teachers

3 years ago by epsilonneighbor to c/news

The largest school district in Texas is opening a new chapter as it begins the school year. A state takeover of the Houston school district has a new superintendent making what he calls bold changes.
marrenia 27 points 3 years ago

It's so much worse than just turning the libraries into prisons - they even went as far as putting cameras in the classrooms to spy on the teachers to make sure they follow mike miles' centralized learning plans and to dock their pay if they aren't ...

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epsilonneighbor 16 points 3 years ago

Sadly, we’ll probably be losing many more good teachers over this. It all feels so broken.

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yip-bonk 7 points 3 years ago

It definitely is. This is just watching what happens when republiQans blow up your society (in this case: schools).

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mustardman 6 points 3 years ago

They haven't installed the telescreens yet, have they? Gotta get those two minutes of hate.

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SheeEttin 6 points 3 years ago

I'm sure those cameras won't immediately be vandalized by students.

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SulaymanF 16 points 3 years ago

These policies will fail, but I doubt they’ll change course because Republicans never want to admit they’re wrong.

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deadtom 17 points 3 years ago

Failure is the goal. The next target is destroying the department of education.

These people are ignorant disgraceful trash and if we don't do something about them we are going to find ourselves in feudal America with serfs lords and kings again.

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DharkStare 12 points 3 years ago

Standardized test scores aren't good so his solution is to hamper school libraries. This guy must be a genius /s

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MonsiuerPatEBrown 9 points 3 years ago

One of Miles’ boldest projects has been a major restructuring of 28 underperforming schools, many of which are located in lower-income neighborhoods. Their teachers must now follow a centrally scripted curriculum, with in-classroom cameras monitoring their performance and pay based largely on standardized test scores.

How does anyone think that institutionalizing the lives helps lower income neighborhoods ?

How does making more authoritarianism help people that are all ready with more on them in the form of poverty ?

I'm so done with the New American Warlord bullshit. We need to rip these crypto-Stalins asunder in public.

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dragonflyteaparty 7 points 3 years ago

This is just so sad and evil. Take away a learning space, punish kids, and force them to "learn" alone. That's so messed up. How anyone thinks these people are helping anything is beyond me.

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PrincessLeiasCat 3 points 3 years ago

This is absolutely terrible. How sad :(

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