Biff_Poindexter
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After a Texas school shooting, conservatives blamed ‘woke’ programs once approved by Republicans
Some conservative activists are arguing that social emotional learning programs are not a solution to school violence, but a cause.
sports.yahoo.com
"In October, after a student opened fire at Timberview High School in North Texas, wounding two classmates and a teacher, parents in the Mansfield Independent School District initially rallied together, praying publicly for the victims and praising officials for reacting quickly to prevent a worse tragedy. But six months later, a different narrative began to spread through this suburban Dallas school district, one that put the blame for the shooting on a new district approach to disciplining students. It started with political mailers sent to thousands of homes. “MISD put ‘woke’ politics over the safety of our children,” the flyers read in all caps, above a news clipping about the Timberview shooting, which reportedly resulted from a fight between two Black students.
But the Mansfield mailer omitted a key detail: Some of the local school policies that it was attacking were initially implemented three years ago, not as part of a liberal takeover of the suburban school system, but at the urging of Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the Trump administration.In the wake of school shootings in Texas and Florida in 2018, many Republican leaders, including Abbott, enthusiastically endorsed efforts to expand school-based social emotional learning programs, which they viewed as a way to prevent mass shootings without taking action on gun reform. The fight in Mansfield reveals how quickly conservative messaging has evolved when it comes to hot-button debates over education, racism and school violence."
Yea, it evolves so fast that Conservatives start attacking their own policies as woke because they are so addicted to calling everything woke; no matter how stupid it makes them look.....Next they are going to say having school counselors talk to students after a mass shooting happens; is being also too woke - because you know, talking to students about their emotions is basically cultural Marxism.....just wipe their tears with bullets and call em fags for being so triggered...