Houston Independent School District will be eliminating librarian positions at 28 schools this upcoming year and converting the libraries into ‘Team Centers” where kids with behavioral issues will be sent, the district announced.
and the dumbing down of american children continues.
adult humans voted for this. adult humans chose this path. it boggles the mind the depth of either their lack of empathy and or awareness of our duties in this society.
HISD was taken over by the Texas Education Agency, and the TEA commissioner appointed the superintendent and board. Trust me, the people who live in HISD don’t want this shit.
Hey now, I voted for a totally different HISD school board, they were forcefully taken away by the work of assholes other people voted for dammit
These are religious people. They can hardly be called adults.
Are Americans really this self-centered?
We aren’t talking about Americans here, we’re talking about Texans.
You can’t keep housing affordable if you don’t maintain the dystopian hellscape!
always were
Lmfao just put the kids right into prison after graduation too why don’t you, but wait, even prisons have libraries. They really out did themselves this time.
Sure prisons have libraries, but don’t have any water, so it evens out
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2023/07/26/texas-prisons-water-bottles
Thats just a Texas thing, they got rid of water breaks for workers too, kids have to be somewhere down the line at this rate.
even prisons have libraries
Prison school irl
Just wait until this dumification hits the job markets there will be states putting their residents at a disadvantage.
Silos if ideology are bad for everyone unfortunately we learn this over and over again in bloody worthless cycles to distract from the billionaires raping us for generations.
They don’t give a fuck, they’ll have gotten theirs and be out by the time that happens. The best we can hope for is that the workers operating their respirators are too illiterate to find the On button and they die a slow painful death
Feels like a problem that’s related to a lack of librarians and libraries.
Sorry, can you unpack this a little? Per the article existing librarians are being transferred or dismissed, did you mean in the larger community?
I think they probably meant in the larger community and in this one. Access to educational materials and services would go a long way in making it harder for things like this to happen. A big problem in America, especially conservative majority areas, is that lack of resources, information, and education makes it easier for political and economic interests to overshadow people’s well being. Look at the push for ‘right-to-work’, brexit, West Virginia and Kentucky in general. There are a lot of people who have restricted access to information and learning who make their decisions based on Fox news, Facebook, and worse.
Basically this. Knowledge is power. People who feel empowered tend to be in better control of their life trajectory and have a better chance to elevate their happiness. Happiness helps avoid the depression spiral that seems to have gripped so many people.
Removing access to free eduction resources and replacing it with a soft-juvi-rehab will only hurt people in the long run.
“You’re not doing well in school? Failing some classes and need more help? How about we try suspension for 2 weeks to fix that?”
I spent so many hours in the school library when I was in high school. Admittedly, it was the 90s, and kids read more back then, but there are plenty of kids who are readers now and libraries are non-judgmental places to read things that interest you. Sure, you can use the internet for that. Sometimes. But your parents can also check your browser history.
He’d be rolling in his grave if he saw what’s been happening to our country the past few years and how much of the stuff he talked about only got worse from the time he was doing stand-up.
Pathetic. The superintendent sounds like an idiot.
He was appointed by the state after HISD (Texas’s largest school district with 276 schools) had A SINGLE SCHOOL (Phillis Wheatley AKA not even 1% of the whole district) received a poor grade from the state education board for 5 consecutive years or more. The state removed elected school board members and the super indendant to have them replaced by the state government.
And removing libraries will make the schools better‽ I’m going to need to see the work for that answer.
This world sucks. I want a new one.
Jesus dude, Texas is going full gestapo
Going?
It’s not going anywhere, it was always like this it just had special enclaves like Austin and Houston that pretended they lived in the 20th century.
“Anybody who wanders around the world saying, ‘Hell yes, I’m from Texas,’ deserves whatever happens to him.”
- Hunter S Thompson
In all seriousness - who is driving this kind of outcome? I do not believe the people who make the decision to execute this kind of policy are capable of thinking rationally. A rational person would never accept this policy. So who is it, then, that is behind this decision and what is their motivation?
Dang right! That thar’s the probbim wif edjumacashun! Too much larnin’ n’ not enuf prison!
