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School is just starting and I've done enough — got the new backpacks and the new shoes, all those supplies the school requested.Â
I even went in and helped my son's teacher set up their room. And I went to the first PTO meeting (no one talked to me, zero potential mom-friends, do not recommend).
And now: now, Susan and Nancy want me to write postcards too. And not fun postcards. We're all supposed to write postcards for 24 members of the Texas Lege.
I thought about just saying "No."
Then reality kicked in.
We send all three of our kids to our local public school. My son's teacher was a lifesaver last year. The librarian helped teach my daughter how to read, and now she loves books and reading too.
Our family is counting on Texas public education for high school too.
I have to fight for Texas public schools. So yes, I'm writing those darn postcards and I roped my husband into doing it too.
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If you listen to what some elected officials are saying here in Texas, they make school vouchers sound like such a great idea... At the very least, an ok idea.
That's not true.
(To say this in a less nice way: They lied.)
The reality is that school vouchers will gut public schools. Schools where my kids, and yours, attend so they can receive a quality, indoctrination-free education will face drastic and devastating budget cuts if Greg Abbott gets his way.
Our tax money should be spent where it was intended—public, NOT private, neighborhood schools!
This is a fight for us as parents (and allies), for our children, and for Texas public school teachers too.
We can win it, and fight off private school funding using public monies, but it's going to take all of us.
I hope you'll join us,Â
— Brenda M.
Proud Texas public school parent to Hailey, Michael, and LouLou
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