#hisd,

@houstontxpsl - At today’s HISD Board Meeting, the unelected superintendent along with the unelected Board of Managers passed a motion to close 12 schools in predominantly Black and brown working class neighborhoods.

Today, in keeping with their tradition, the board acted against the interests of the very community they claim to serve. Students, school staff and community organizers joined the meeting to make loud and clear their opposition to this racist, anti-democratic scheme.

it’s a nightmare scenario;

- libraries turned into discipline centers

- banning recess

- mandatory 4 min timers for students to do scripted activities and if not the teachers get penalized

- uncertified people teaching in what are called “dyads”, essentially a club during the day instead of an art class or anything enriching

- curriculum written by ChatGPT

- mandatory DOL tests; the students who do well are pushed out of the class and told to work on worksheets

- not allowed to provide accommodations to disabled students

- not allowed to read full books, leading to elementary school students reading uncensored graphic sexual imagery and slurs in Maya Angelou’s work as worksheets

- teachers are mandated to not sit down at any point during the day