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have the freedom to have children attend classes in mul-
tiple schools to have the right set up for their individual
children, (some schools don’t have deaf ed. others don’t
have the swim class, etc.) Schools will adapt to what is
needed by the students. If the} don’t, they will fail. Bui in
the long run. convenience will win out for most families
and all classes will be taken al the same school for ail
children tn the family.
5. Parents must allow a school to fail and move on.
Good teachers will be snatched up, bad teachers will be
out of work, hopefull}, the bad administrators will follow
suit
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Gov. Greg Abbott called to begin
In the Old West, many men who
were hired to keep the peace were
as corrupt as the outlaws they pur-
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out differences on a bill between the
chambers;
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the Sunset Advisory Commission.
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term as speaker unanimously.
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hands-off during the regular session,
seems to be more hands-on in the
special session he called. His chal-
lenge will be whether that’s enough
to avoid another chaotic meltdown.
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couldn't actually walk on water, but
history writers have cast him as a
hero beyond reproach, the Spirit of
the West.
Earp was not known lo shy away
from violence, but one author in-
vented sensational escapades to sell
books. Earp made loyal friends and
bitter enemies Actually he was not
so different from thousands of other
men of his time and place.
Henry Newton Brown was a boy
who left home at seventeen, drifted
from job to job until he became a law
officer. He neither drank, smoked,
nor chewed. According to legend,
he didn't gamble in a day when all
men gambled.
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drifted from punch-
ing cattle to rustling
cattle, even riding
with Billy the Kid
on some occasion-
al stock-stealing
exploits, lie was
eventually hired to
clean up Caldwell.
Kansas. Along the
way. Brown killed
more men. local
bad guys whom nobody missed.
Brown had all the qualities of a
peace officer. He was aggressive
in keeping the peace in those wild
town and not afraid of anything.
Once he placed his gun on a table at
an equal distance from himself and
a trouble-maker. He challenged the
man lo beat him lo it. Ihe cowboy
left town.
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school when parents and family are qualified and willing
to teach the children. Not only that, but more churches
are teaching K-12 because of the influence of the federal
government agenda onto the school system.
Why, then, is this pastor pushing for other pastors to
herd their flocks into the secular humanistic machine that
has produced such rioting and hate from the past few
years?
As a tax paying citizen. I pay a portion of someone’s
education each year. Probably a couple of someones.
since I homeschooled two from K-12 on the budget the
school gets lor one child in one year. I hat is why there
is a bill for vouchers. Each child should have his/her
own schooling budget. (The state and feds already have
a dollar amount attached to each child, right?) In Texas,
some schools never had competition. We should not be
throwing money at a bad school system. And a school
system that takes away the freedom of speech, freedom
of religion, and the parent’s right lo control the direction
of the child’s education is a federal indoctrination system,
not a school.
I realize homeschool and private school is not for ev-
eryone. I also realize ’hat the G< CIS!) teachers genuine-
ly care for our children. But the regulations and hoops
they must jump through to satisfy everyone from parents
through to the president are unreasonable and unneces-
sary .
Instead of lobbying tor more money for this broken
system, let’s lobby fora better system first.
My version of a "Better School System:"
lust like someone shopping for smartphone features or
car features, you should be able to pick the right fit for
your child in education.
1. Each school district’s website should have a stan-
dard. unbiased comparison of each school in its district
(including private schools) A committee elected by the
city or other non-conflicted entity should grade each
school Items to be graded should be special ed. techni-
cal education, life skills, core education, play recreation
facilities, (sports programs for higher levels), and music
program. Each year these may be updated as long as each
school is graded on the same things.
2. Each school should have a standard fee per class, not
per school. No school should charge more than another.
Not even private schools. Not if this system is to work.
We really shouldn't have administrators getting corporate
income while teachers (who are more important because
they are the ones molding our children) arc paid near min-
imum wage.
3. Parents wanting to homeschool should be able to ap-
ply for an “Education f und" they may draw from, like a
Health Savings Account. Teacher supplies stores, as well
as online K-12 schools, should be on the list of approved
vendors. Public and private schools should also accept
the.se children for classes parents can’t teach. (Some stu-
dents may need special help with speech, while others Ju)> 18, |Cxans may sec some inter-
esting legislative practices
They include hostage-taking, or
leverage, or tit lor tat. I hat’s what
caused the special session. I I. Gov.
Dan Patrick, the fexas Senate’s pre-
siding officer, killed a "Sunset safe-
ty net” bill at the end of the regular
session.
It was payback to House Speaker
Joe Straus, for the House refusing
to endorse Patrick’s pel transgender
bathroom bill.
Patrick wanted a special session,
for another shot at that bill, plus a
bill to make it harder for local gov-
ernments to raise property taxes —
which also failed to clear the House
Cities and counties vehemently op-
pose it.
Abbott wants the legislature lo
first pass the Sunset safety net bill,
to keep five agencies alive — in-
cluding the Texas Medical Board
that licenses doctors - until the leg-
islature can review them in its 2019
regular session.
In a special session, the governor
dictates the subjects to be consid-
ered. Assuming the sunset bill pass-
es, the governor says he'll open the
call to the bathroom and property
tax bills, plus 17 others.
Abbott blamed the legislature for
j making the special session neces-
sary. But as long as they’re coming
| io Austin to keep those agencies
alive, he said they might also do
some other work.
I hat sets the stage for legislative
horse-trading. But the House and
Senate differ in political philos-
ophies, as well as administrative
structures.
Patrick and Straus, who both call
themselves conservatives, represent
two different strains of the Republi-
can Party
Patrick pursues an ideological
I agenda, heavy on hot-button issues
I like the transgender bathroom regu-
; latory bill, which appeal to his evan-
I gelical and lea Party Republican
On this date:
In 1952, the Republican National ( onvention, meeting
in ( hicago, nominated Dwight D Eisenhower for presi-
dent and Richard M. Nixon lor vice president.
In 1955. the U.S. Air Force Academy swore in its first
class of cadets at its temporary quarters at Lowry' Air
Force Base in Colorado.
In 1960. the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper
Lee was first published by LB. Lippincott and Co.
In 1077, the Presidential Medal of Freedom was pre-
sented to polio vaccine pioneer Dr. Jonas Salk and (post-
humously ) to the Rev. Martin 1 uther King Jr. by Presi-
dent Jimmy Carter.
In 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Sky lab made
a spectacular return to Earth, burning up in the atmo-
sphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and
Australia.
In 1989, actor and director Laurence Olivier died in
Steyning, West Sussex, England, at age 82.
In 1991, a Nigeria Airways DC-8 carrying Muslim pil-
grims crashed at the Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, international
airport, killing all 261 people on board.
Ten years ago: Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady
who'd championed conservation and worked tenaciously
for the political career of her husband. President Lyndon
Johnson, died in Austin, Texas, at age 94.
Five years ago: Unflinching before a skeptical NAAC P
crowd m Houston, Republican Mitt Romney declared
he'd do more for African-Americans than Barack Obama,
the nation's first black president. Hillary Rodham Clinton
became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos.
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I question Rev. Charles Johnson and his associate di-
rector of Pastors for Texas Children, who is a 30-year
veteran of multiple school systems, what agenda do they •
have? sued. Legends such as Wyatt Earp
I personally can't see a pastor advocating to place a
child in such a hostile environment such as today’s public
Viewpoints
A look at ‘Outlaws with Badges'
I le seemed to have been quiet and
polite but remorseless in his pursuit
of those who disturbed the peace.
He believed in shooting first, then
shouting “Throw up your hands." It
saved the county the inconvenience
and expense of hung juries, acquit-
tals. and appeals.
When he and his fellow outlaws
robbed a bank and killed honorable
citizens who owned the bank, a mob
broke Brown and friends out of jail
and hanged them. Ihe triumphs
and flaws of the early lawmen who
moonlighted as robbers and rustlers
arc detailed in a book published by
Pelican, “Outlaws With Badges" by
1 aurence J. Yadon and Robert Barr
Smith
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with five published novels Reach
fu r al Josbook a tnindspring.com or
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nies and civil rights groups, which
oppose it as discriminatory against
transgender people — an unneeded
solution for a non-existent problem.
As North (. arolina learned by-
passing such legislation in 2015, it
can cause boycotts in sporting and
entertainment events, conventions,
tourism, and business expansions.
Patrick dismisses those economic
consequences as unlikely, and in-
sists the bill is needed to keep men
from molesting women and girls in
women’s bathrooms.
Straus and others say there's no
ev idence that’s a problem — and is session, give him all the powers the
already against the law. lieutenant governor has — except
I he 31 members of the Senate the Calendars Committee sets the
don't choose their presiding ofifi- agenda. But he appoints its chair and
cer. I he Fexas Constitution decrees
it’s the lieutenant governor, who is
elected by Texas voters for a four-
yea r term.
In the senate's rules passed at the cally dangerous hot-button issues,
outset of each regular session, sen- have earned him enough respect that
ators have traditionally given the in January, he was elected to his fifth
lieutenant governor the powers to:
• Appoint committees and their
chairs;
• Recognize senators to present
bills on the senate floor — essential-
ly setting the senate's calendar;
• Refer bills to committees of his
choice;
• Decides which senators to name Dave Mc.\cclv at davenu neclvll l<a
to House-Senate conference com- gmailcom
base.
Straus is a more
traditional Texas
Republican: mod-
erate and busi-
ness-oriented. He which reviews state agencies every
12 years, to recommend potential
J mg government changes, and decide whether to rec-
lean, but also in ommend the agency be continued;
honoring its re- and.
sponsibilities on • Pick the senate members lo
education, health join him on the I egislative Bud-
care. transportation, criminal and
civil justice including appropriat-
ing enough money.
I he transgender bathroom bill un-
derlines their differences
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( ollectively, those powers make the
Straus agrees with the Texas As- lieutenant governor the most power-
sociation of Business, major compa- ful legislative force in the building.
i he speaker of the House is cho-
sen by its 150 members from among
themselves — which means the
winner must satisfy at least 75 other
members. His tenn as speaker is for
two years — same as his House tenn.
However, he doesn't have to run
statewide. He faces actual voters
only in his home district — in this
case, in San Antonio. Straus is now
in his record-tying fifth term as
speaker, and savs he'll run aeain in
2019.
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Bloom, David. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 137, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 11, 2017, newspaper, July 11, 2017; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1193275/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.