Texas Legislature Passes Ban on DEI Offices and Tenure Reform at Public Universities

[Bye Woke]

Any activist spouting this shit needs to be exterminated.

The Texas Legislature made strident moves this session to change how
students, teachers, and administrators will conduct themselves at public
universities in Texas, changing how diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)
offices and professor tenure will be managed.

Sen. Brandon Creighton (R-Conroe) has been the leader of the education
vanguard this session as he authored both Senate Bills (SB) 17 and 18.

The mission of the Senate and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to end tenure for
public university professors has been a priority since last year and
finally crossed the finish line over the weekend, but not without some
caveats.

The original version of SB 18 would have outright banned professor tenure
at public universities, but after reformulations in the House Committee on
Higher Education, the bill now allows tenure to be granted but only
through the university’s governing board, on the recommendation of the
university’s chief executive officer and university system’s chancellor.

Reactions to the bill’s passage sparked a range of responses.

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The University of Texas at Austin American Association of University
Professors, which has been a stark opponent to the legislation, said that
they didn’t believe that the codification of tenure in state law is
necessary and that they are “concerned with dangerously broad grounds for
termination in the bill as well as the lack of the due process
provisions.”

With SB 18 now agreed upon by both chambers, the next step will be for
college tenure to be enshrined into law by the governor.

Another piece of priority legislation related to higher education was
passed over the weekend in SB 17, which would ban DEI offices at Texas
public universities.

The bill also went through significant revisions in committee hearings,
notably changing the provision that an institute of higher education “may
not establish or maintain” a DEI office by adding in the clause “except as
required by federal law.”

Additional changes to the organizational structure of the bill include
provisions allowing universities to highlight their “first-generation,”
“low-income,” and “underserved” students in accrediting and grant
application purposes. “Academic course instruction” and the “activity of a
student organization” are also protected in the bill.

“Today marks a victory for citizens’ right to free speech under the First
Amendment, Texas universities, and our commitment to fostering true
diversity and merit in higher education,” Creighton said in a statement
after SB 17 was passed.

“The elimination of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion offices will result
in millions in savings for taxpayers and restore a culture of free
inquiry, meritocracy, equal opportunity, genuine innovation within Texas
higher education.”

With both bills now passed by the upper and lower chambers, the last step
is for each to be signed into law by the governor.

https://thetexan.news/texas-legislature-passes-ban-on-dei-offices-and-
tenure-reform-at-public-universities/

[Pelosi's fault]

Transgenders are mentally ill and should NEVER be allowed contact with
children. EVER.

A transgender teacher's Pride flag was burned at a Los Angeles elementary
school where furious parents have vowed to boycott an LGBT event.

An intruder broke into Saticoy Elementary School in North Hollywood over
the weekend and set the flag on fire.

The full-time teacher, who is a transgender man, discovered its remains in
a plant pot which was also broken.

He has now been removed from the school by the Los Angeles Unified School
District (LAUSD) over concerns of his safety, according to the Los Angeles
Times.

Anger has escalated among the school community due to an upcoming Pride
assembly and parents have scheduled a protest against the 'inappropriate'
event on Friday.

Los Angeles police have confirmed they are investigating the incident and
the school sent a message to parents.

'We experienced a break-in over the weekend at Saticoy Elementary that
resulted in vandalism and is being investigated as a hate-motivated
incident,' it said.

'We are cooperating with law enforcement. This is a reminder that we rely
on our entire school community to keep our school safe and secure by
reporting any suspicious activity on campus after hours. If you see
something, say something.'

The transgender teacher was taken out of Saticoy Elementary School for his
own safety, a source who wanted to remain anonymous said.

His image was taken down from the school's website but an image of the
teacher before and after his transition was posted on Instagram pages used
by parents against the Pride assembly.

'Here’s the special ed/3rd grade trans teacher (first pic as female, later
male) at Saticoy Elementary who has made it a point to send message to
[Armenian] kids about [Pride],' the post read.

One parent commented that they knew he was transgender and that it never
bothered anyone before.

'He has now decided to stir things up and make his private sexual business
our kids,' they wrote.

Another Saticoy Elementary School teacher, who wanted to remain anonymous,
said staff do not feel safe anymore.

'We’re in an atmosphere especially here in the United States with school
shootings where, no, I don’t feel safe,' they said.

'I don’t think any of our teachers feel safe. And a lot of parents don’t
feel safe about their children either.'

The incident comes after parents set up an Instagram account on May 16
called 'saticoyelementaryparents' to protest against the school's upcoming
Pride assembly where teachers read a Mary Hoffman book titled 'The Great
Big Book of Families'.

It talks about diversity and 'all kinds of families' including those with
LGBTQ+ parents.

And just three days later, parents took their children out of a class
which was being taught by a transgender substitute teacher, three school
sources said.

The teacher is said to have previously worked at the school without any
problems before the backlash over the Pride event.

'It was awful,' a staff member said. 'I get that people have freedom of
speech and the ability to believe and have their own opinions, but when it
directly results in affecting the livelihood of another person, it’s
unconscionable.'

The LAUSD refused to confirm the incident and said: 'Due to
confidentiality laws, we are unable to address student and personnel
matters.

'Please be assured that Los Angeles Unified remains committed to providing
a learning and working environment that is free from discrimination,
harassment, intimidation or bullying.'

The furious parents plan to protest outside the school on June 2 and have
told others who 'share conservative values' and 'don’t feel this material
is appropriate to teach to the children' to join them.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12145839/Rainbow-flag-burned-LA-
elementary-school-furious-parents-vowed-BOYCOTT-Pride-event.html

[Queer Sanitariums]

These queers do not belong anywhere near children. They are
pedophiles and psychopaths.

The former Northern Virginia schools superintendent charged with covering
up a rape by a gender-bending student showed up to court Thursday wearing
earrings and painted nails, in the latest twist in a saga that has
captivated the nation.

In December, Scott Ziegler was criminally indicted for three misdemeanors
based on the work of a grand jury investigating how Ziegler lied about a
rape by a skirt-wearing boy while the Loudoun County school board was
seeking to pass a transgender policy. The boy remained in Loudoun schools
and went on to violently assault a second girl in a classroom. Ziegler’s
spokesman, Wayde Byard, was also indicted on a felony count.

On Thursday, however, the formerly businessman-like superintendent showed
up for a court date sporting earrings and fingernails painted black.

Nick Minock, a reporter for local ABC affiliate WJLA, captured a photo of
the superintendent entering the Loudoun County courthouse, the same one
where the rapist was found guilty.


“It’s absolutely infuriating how Scott Ziegler dared to show up in court
like that,” said Scott Mineo, a parent who has sounded the alarm about
ideology in the Loudoun schools. “It just drives home the point parents
have been furiously shouting about for three damn years.”

Even though the school board fired Ziegler the same month he was indicted,
it has refused to release an internal report it paid a law firm to write
analyzing how the school system responded to the assaults. It has even
gone so far as to resist a subpoena from state Attorney General Jason
Miyares.

Thursday’s hearing was to help a judge adjudicate whether Loudoun County
Public Schools can continue to conceal the document or will be forced to
turn it over. Several school board members were in court and planned to
testify at a later court date, Minock reported.

In a court filing this week, the attorney general wrote that, “In opposing
the Commonwealth’s motion for a subpoena duces tecum for the Report,
Loudoun County Public Schools (‘LCPS’) and LCSB [Loudoun County School
Board] have chosen the side of Defendant Scott Ziegler over transparency
and accountability.”

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“Over a year after an assailant was found criminally responsible beyond a
reasonable doubt for committing forcible sodomy, abduction, and sexual
battery at school, LCSB inexplicably continues to refer to these incidents
as ‘two alleged sexual assaults at LCPS.’ LCSB’s basic failure to
acknowledge the fully-adjudicated nature of these cases, the equivalent of
violent felony convictions if committed by an adult, raises significant
questions about what LCSB is trying to keep a secret from the prosecution
and the public in the Report,” the document said, according to WJLA.

The school district is claiming attorney-client privilege, but the
attorney general said that doesn’t apply to government agencies against
other government agencies. And it reminded the court that school board
members had previously told the public that they planned for the report,
which was sold to the public as an accountability measure, to become
public.

The grand jury’s report spent much of its time faulting LCPS Division
Counsel Robert Falconi, saying it likely would have indicted him for
witness tampering, except that such a statute did not exist in Virginia.
Falconi testified on Thursday.

After the skirt-wearing boy was charged with rape, LCPS did not discipline
him, falsely claiming that federal Title IX rules prevented it from doing
so. It transferred him to another school, where Ziegler personally knew
the boy had continued to harass girls, but the only discipline that was
meted out was having him write a promise that he would stop. He then went
on to violently attack another girl in an empty classroom. In court, the
judge said there was also a third victim.

The bizarre series of events has been unfolding since The Daily Wire broke
the story in October 2021. The grand jury report found that school
spokespeople sought to stonewall The Daily Wire and that even school board
members learned details of the apparent coverup only from this news site.

The story reported how weeks after the rape, the school board held a
contentious meeting to advance a transgender bathroom policy and dismiss
concerns by parents who thought there could be safety implications.

Ziegler said, “To my knowledge, we don’t have any record of assaults
occurring in our restrooms.”

“We’ve heard it several times tonight from our public speakers but the
predator transgender student or person simply does not exist,” he said.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-virginia-schools-boss-disgraced-in-
trans-rape-case-shows-up-for-court-with-earrings-and-painted-nails