Parents, educators and activists sound off about a package of bills that would provide public funding for private and religious schooling while prohibiting public school educators from providing instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation.
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at a rally Tuesday in support of school choice on the steps of the Texas Capitol.AUSTIN, Texas — Glennda Hardin awoke before sunrise and drove an hour from Temple to the state Capitol, her prepared speech folded neatly in her handbag. Hardin, a 73-year-old retired teacher, had never done anything like this before, she said.
The centerpiece of the package, Senate Bill 8 — dubbed The Texas Parental Bill of Rights by its GOP authors — would give parents who want to pull their children out of public school $8,000 a year to cover home-schooling expenses or private school tuition. Those who chose to keep their children in public schools would be granted new oversight over what students were taught and what books they could access.
But some speakers argued that the bill would finance a different type of indoctrination — providing government funding for private Christian schools — while suppressing the freedoms of LGBTQ students and educators. Some speakers came in matching shirts: “My school. My child. My choice.” A man scribbled a handwritten message to legislators on his white T-shirt: “Don’t take my tax dollars to pay for your kid’s private school.”
The Legislature is also weighing a constitutional amendment, introduced by Republican Sen. Angela Paxton, that would guarantee parents’ rights “to direct the education” of their children, including the freedom to send them to religious schools. On Monday, her husband, Attorney General Ken Paxton, issued an opinion arguing that government funding for private religious schools is legal under the Texas Constitution.
“An essential part of providing equity in our nation is that we are not imposing beliefs on people,” Bandel said.
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