Leaving Home
We always kinda knew why Governor Rick Perry wasn’t big on education. After all, he was not burden with intellectual curiosity.
But apparently Governor Greg Abbott hates, hates, hates education.
He just named the new State Board of Education Chairman. Her name is Donna Bahorich and she home schooled her kids. That wouldn’t be so terribly weird if the State Board of Education didn’t approve curriculum and textbooks for public schools.
It also is kinda weird that Bahorich didn’t get the job because of her expertise in education. She’s a political hack, plain, simple, and worthless.
She was the campaign manager for Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a man who is so mean that flowers wilt when he walks by.
On Bahorich’s own website, all of her volunteer work and Awards are rightwing political.
So, a woman who doesn’t believe in public education is gonna head up public education.
Welcome to Texas, y’all.
When I retire in a few years and leave this godforsaken state I will never look back. Republicans are destroying what could be a wonderful place.
1Political hacks will always be with us, rather like the poor, but better connected to the public trough.
Poor Texas…
2I’m with Brian. Can’t wait to get out of this wretched state. Soon.
3…already gone
Keef Hartley Band – 1969 – Leavin’ Trunk https://t.co/07sFurQNJA
4Shared on fb:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=674009223
“Our governor has just outdone even himself. He’s appointed a RW home schooler with no background in Education as head of the State Board of Education. HEAD. Teachers’ Rebelllion anyone?”
5Poor, poor Texas! How in the heck did you all vote in Abbott rather than Wendy? Can he be recalled for failure to lead? This is simply beyond belief!
6The patrons above have captured my thinking but with greater eloquence.
I wish I could leave Texas as well, but I have kids and grandkids here. I dream of Quebec or Vermont or New Hampshire, but living there is probably impossible.
7Oh dear Lord! Things are getting worse on a daily basis. Where do I go?
8This stupidity with our governor and his ilk has to stop!
You surely don’t think she was put there in order to advocate for Dan Patrick’s voucher plan, do you?
9I, too, am leaving Texas when I retire in a couple of years. It’s hard to watch everything I used to love be destroyed.
101smartcanerican™, the problem is that Abbott is leading. Just in a way-wrong direction. He would make a good lemming leader.
11@Micr
Quebec. Ahhhh. The dream. Can we claim Texas as a reason to emigrate?
12“She’s a nice lady and a hard worker and I think her heart’s in the right place,” Ratliff said. “I just think it ought to be a fundamental requirement on the state board for someone to have had kids in public school.”
Ratliff said he’s now rethinking his decision to leave the board when his current term expires in 2017.
“That’s no longer a guarantee that my days on the board are done,” he said. “I may have more work to do.”
Ya think?
13I believe home schooling CAN produce well educated students. Note the all caps on CAN. It isn’t automatic. I also believe that access to public education is essential to the state. I mean, it’s in the Texas Constitution. Isn’t it? I have to remind myself daily that God loves Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick but I don’t have to agree with them. Mutter mutter mutter.
14It’s part of a GOP mindset to put people in charge of things who believe in destroying those things. Anybody remember Reagan’s Interior Secretary James Watt? Didn’t quite say in so many words “Jesus is coming, cut down all the trees,” but came real close. He’s one of many.
Marge Wood, a friend of ours home-schooled her kids in Massachusetts because she has a PhD and could do a better job of educating them than the local schools were doing. The girls now have degrees from MIT and GWU. But they’re a minority of home-schooled kids.
15I’m not leaving Texas because a) I’m a native and b) I’m stubborn and c) if all the people who don’t like the right wing extremists leave, how does that help?
No, it’s not pleasant. But…Marine. Retreat is not an option. Surrender is not an option. Semper fidelis. They may kill me, but they’ll have to work at it, and they’re not going to drive me out of MY home state. Line in the sand. Leave if you want to.
16I thought our new Gov. Ruiner was making some bad appointments; but, seriously, is Abbott out of his mind? Never mind, I just remembered the whole Jade Helm thing…asked and answered.
17http://www.newrepublic.com/…/sexual-assault-patrick-henry-college-go... This is a link to a state accredited college for kids who were home schooled. It is Evangelical Christian non-denominational, culture is totally 1950’s. Its supposed to be the most god-fearing safest place on earth, especially for co-eds. Check out the link.
Was this woman given that post in order to establish the Texas version of Patrick Henry College for home schooled kids in Texas? If so, watch out for any $$ the state throws that way. It will only come out of the hide of public education.
18Abbott and friends hate education because people who are knowledgeable on issues tend not to vote Republican. That’s why they have FOX.
19She is not the 1st to home school her children. Many of the members have and do this. Just more hypocrisy.
20I have no problem with anyone home schooling their kids. I think the point is that someone that is going to be making major decisions on any major agency should have some skin in the game. It would be like Abbot being the governor of South Dakota and living in Austin.
21This is just another example of the selfish agenda of the very wealthy wanting their own “values” (I scoff at this word) to fund themselves with our taxpayer dollar. It is frightening to think anyone would believe that home schooling is the end all–we will have a very fragmented and mainly uneducated group of kids not able to make it in this world with the exception of those who inherit their parent’s wealth. ” Face it, the 99% will not have the financial luxury of home schooling their kids and since there is no consistency of curriculum and no regulatory requirements that the home schooling parents be educated themselves, we will not have a literate or functioning workforce. It is really sad that our Governor believes in the Good Old Boy form of governing. Texas deserves better and has had better in the past. Hopefully, there will be a wakeup call. Privatizing education is not going to be a winner for Texas–
22I’ve signed many petitions about school books being vetted in TX. I guess there will be many more petitions to sign ….
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