Parents’ rights hearing at Texas Capitol draws a hundred supporters, and a book-ban protest

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Protesters carrying banned books gathered Tuesday as scores of witnesses lined up to...

Those on the right maintain that during the initial COVID-19 lockdowns, parents saw firsthand that the public school system has a leftist bias as they helped their children with virtual learning at home, so they set out to fix it.

Convening at the exact same time as the “read-in,” the state House Public Education Committee met all day to discuss how to further “parental choice” in schools ahead of next year’s legislative session. More than 100 witnesses registered to speak. Aileen Blachowski, from Prosper, said she moved in recent years from California to Texas because she was “tired of the politics and tyranny of California.”

The main source of the parents’ frustrations was how the tone of the curriculum in public education has changed over time. Everything seems to center around equity, race, gender and sexual identity nowadays, they said, rather than on more important, central issues in education.

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