The Medina County GOP has donated signs with the National Motto “In God We Trust” emblazoned on them to all the campuses of the county’s schools. Heh! We’ve started to get God back into schools! Faith is belief without tangible proof. We have our faith in the Lord. And, although most folk won’t believe it, we have tangible proof! Every day that I continue to wake up on this side of the grass is proof.

We aren’t stopping there. We’re diving into the libraries and the curriculum being taught to our kids. I spent a day up in Austin, observing the Texas State Board of Education meet and debate. I had to send them the following email:

Members of the Texas State Board of Education (sboesupport@tea.texas.gov),                   11/17/2022

I was privileged to attend most of the group meeting on Wednesday but was delayed by traffic and construction and arrived too late to register as a public commenter. Regardless, I would like to express a few thoughts.

1. You discussed the proposed Amendments to 19 TAC Chapter 112, TEKS for Science and 19 TEC Chapter 113, TEKS for Social Studies. Although the majority of the debate and conversation were positive, you all failed to recognize and debate that the materials you want removed from those two chapters have also been infiltrated into other subjects, such as Mathematics. Word problems, purportedly used to develop critical math skills, are actually used to infiltrate “oppressed v. oppressors” and “permanent victimhood” material into the curricula. This must stop, or CRT, 1619 Project, promotion of homosexuality, gender-fluidity, etc., material will continue to be stealthily taught to our children. Only your action will prevent this.

2. I applaud your attempts to reduce the 21 priority legislative action list (for the next Texas Legislature session) into a much more manageable five subjects. However, I am appalled that you failed to include the one subject that is most on the minds of Texans throughout the state: School Security! During your discussion one Board member, whom I could not identify during cross talk, spoke out the words “School safety”. All of you ignored him.

During the rest of the discussion, I was so very tempted to interrupt with just those same two words. Decorum prevented me from doing just that, but now I am embarrassed that I didn’t; decorum be damned! I believe every single person in that room failed all Texans in the moment. PLEASE correct this mistake!

TEA Staff,
Please share to all members of the Board.

Respectfully submitted,

Robert C. Oberlender
U.S. Army, Retired
Chair, Medina County GOP School Board Committee

rcoberlender@gmail.com
(830) 444-9496