The State of Texas just won’t stop.

They have recently gone after voting rights and women’s control of their own bodies.

Last year we saw the state lose power because their faulty grid could not handle anything but mild weather and found they might have to reconfigure present urban areas or modify plans of future ones because of the flood damage was so bad a time or two.

We know the problem of the grid is a big one because its failure forced Ted Cruz to flee to Mexico like a Central American crossing our Southern Border to escape murderous cartels.

Since the age of computers began, school districts have established websites that offer all manner of information to parents and students that helps eliminate a need to drive to a central location hoping to be able to speak with someone and ask questions.

More than schedules and rules are included on these sites.

Since a school district must treat each student equally and inclusively, and have the wellbeing and safety of students, along with academics, as a commitment, some pages on the websites offer information to students with some addressing issues important to the many groups to which the students belong, race, color, creed, handicap, marital status, basically all those protected classes included in policies and all students in general whether included in official lists as kids not on the official.  

Whether or not someone else does or does not approve of a group is irrelevant as school districts cannot deny education, involvement in school programs, or entry to school activities to any student  because of the personal tastes of any other individuals or group.

Some of the information offered on school district websites lists resources students may need but are not necessarily supplied by the district.

Not all information is important to all students, but it should be there for those to whom it is.

Regardless what group a student may be in, among the school activities and programs, school websites also supply appropriate information and resources for students who are feeling depressed, bullied, or suicidal.

Schools cannot pick and choose which students will have a complete and healthy school experience and those who cannot have that.

Texas had removed its resource page for GLBT students and their parents from its site because one primary opponent of Governor Greg Abbott called it “offensive” and not in line with “Texas values.”

In a video, candidate Don Huffines voiced his outrage.  

“They are promoting Transgender sexual policies to Texas youth! I mean, really?! This is Texas! These are not Texas values. These are not Republican Party values. But these are obviously Greg Abbott’s values.”

He was sacrificing a whole class of students  in his using them as political tools and not students

Following the video’s appearance, the GLBT page was removed.

Supplying information is not promoting anything, otherwise schools in Texas are promoting Christianity. Fellowship of Christian Athletes. A legitimate sports related organization, or proselytizing in sheep’s clothing.

Hours after Huffines posted the video, the page vanished.

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“It’s offensive to see Greg Abbotuse our tax dollars to advocate for transgender ideology. This must end. “

In my day, concerns of the majority of the student body were referred to topics and issues, but those of GLBT kids were labelled political. In this case, the Transgender kids are reduced to an impersonal “ideology”, and without humanity, kids can be easily thrown aside.

Again, in my experience, the discussion of the educational needs of GLBT students was avoided by claiming the district does not deal with politics even as it was doing just that in kts refusal to acknowledge the existence and needs of GLBT students.

Apparently in Texas, being as they are simply an “ideology, unlike all the other students, the Transgender ones can go and find things that address depression, bullying, or suicide somewhere else while their peers can conveniently find information in these area they need conveniently on the district’s website and even on campus.

According to the Texas School Website,

“State law requires children to attend school each day that instruction is provided. The law applies to children 6-19.”

Does this law apply to all children in the schools or to all but those who are not children but ideologies?

Imagine being required by law to attend a school where you are considered to be an ideology, simply the act of sex, not a Texas or Republican value, and offensive.

Although the removal of the website was blamed on the page being reviewed, there are internal emails that suggest officials take it down in response to Huffines’s comments.

One day after Huffines video, an email sent from Patrick Crimmins, spokesman for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, said,

“Please note we may need to take that page down, or somehow revise content,”

And a follow up email was sent to the person in charge of the website  explaining that

 “the Texas Youth Connection (TYC) website has been temporarily disabled for a comprehensive review of its content.”

and,

“This is being done to ensure that its information, resources and referrals are current.”

The page is still not back up. I checked.

Now there will be some who will claim removing any information from the website will not adversely affect any students.

However, in trying to get equal treatment for GLBT students in Texas’s neighbor to the North, I was once told by a principal that, as no reference was made anywhere in any policy to sexual orientation or Gay students, these students were not included, or they would have been mentioned.

So, yes, there are consequences of GLBT students being expunged from the Texas Schools’ website.

They can be ignored.

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