‘Scary’: public-school textbooks the latest target as US book bans intensify

[Della]

"The wave of book bans sweeping the US, typically reserved for works of fiction deemed controversial, has hit textbooks used in public schools, marking the next step in Republicans’ war on education.

The board of trustees for the Cypress Fairbanks independent school district in Houston voted 6-1 earlier this month to redact certain chapters in science textbooks, including those about vaccines, human growth, diversity and climate change.

The motion to remove the chapters was made by the board’s vice-president, Natalie Blasingame, and almost unanimously supported."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/art ... -book-bans

[Aletheia]

https://www.cfisd.net/Page/6773

I am called to work tirelessly every day to give kids a hope and a future through a personalized, effective education that meets them where they are and takes them to where they want to go...even beyond their own vision for themselves. I believe in teachers, and principals, and their desire and capacity to do this work for kids more effectively and creatively each day. I believe that we can transform our city by ensuring our schools are factories of hope- for faith is the substance of things hoped for. It is incumbent upon us to outsmart the literacy crisis, and every other plague of society, to ensure our kids develop an informed, empowered hope. If we in education join together with the other spheres of culture - family, religion, government, business, media, arts and entertainment- and ask God almighty to empower our work, it can be done. I hope to connect with other empowered warriors fighting for educational equality and excellence.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-natalie-kagan-blasingame

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The Cy-Fair ringleader, Natalie Kagan Blasingame, has long rejected the separation of church and state and advocates getting Jesus in the

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/busine ... 450783.php

Now that her campaign is nearly done, Blasingame jokes that Teach For America probably isn’t backing too many candidates like her. “I’m probably not what they had in mind,” Blasingame told the Observer. “I’m way more conservative and way more Christian than the LEE people probably know how to deal with.”

Religion, and specifically whether God should have more of a place in public schools, has been a signature issue in Blasingame’s campaign. She says she learned only recently that the Constitution does not explicitly provide for a “separation of church and state.” As a board member she hopes to encourage teachers to discuss their faith more freely in the classroom. Instead of clamming up when a student mentions Jesus, she says teachers should “let them go there, follow their faith all the different ways, and then we’re gonna have kids who are going to know how to work across lines of difference.”

https://www.texasobserver.org/natalie-b ... rch-state/

https://drnatalieblasingam.wixsite.com/ ... /educators

[Della]

Thanks for finding this information Aletheia.

[RIZZY]

https://www.cfisd.net/Page/6773

I am called to work tirelessly every day to give kids a hope and a future through a personalized, effective education that meets them where they are and takes them to where they want to go...even beyond their own vision for themselves. I believe in teachers, and principals, and their desire and capacity to do this work for kids more effectively and creatively each day. I believe that we can transform our city by ensuring our schools are factories of hope- for faith is the substance of things hoped for. It is incumbent upon us to outsmart the literacy crisis, and every other plague of society, to ensure our kids develop an informed, empowered hope. If we in education join together with the other spheres of culture - family, religion, government, business, media, arts and entertainment- and ask God almighty to empower our work, it can be done. I hope to connect with other empowered warriors fighting for educational equality and excellence.

Copperfield Church Graphic
Sunday School Teacher
Copperfield Church
Aug 2013 - Aug 2016 3 years 1 month

Supporter/Volunteer
My Brother's Keeper Houston

Board Member
Copperfield Swim Team
Mar 2018 - Present 6 years 3 months

Student Ministry Council (Youth Sponsor)
Calvary Community Church
Dec 2018 - Present 5 years 6 months

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-natalie-kagan-blasingame

https://www.facebook.com/natalie.blasingame.3/

The Cy-Fair ringleader, Natalie Kagan Blasingame, has long rejected the separation of church and state and advocates getting Jesus in the

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/busine ... 450783.php

Now that her campaign is nearly done, Blasingame jokes that Teach For America probably isn’t backing too many candidates like her. “I’m probably not what they had in mind,” Blasingame told the Observer. “I’m way more conservative and way more Christian than the LEE people probably know how to deal with.”

Religion, and specifically whether God should have more of a place in public schools, has been a signature issue in Blasingame’s campaign. She says she learned only recently that the Constitution does not explicitly provide for a “separation of church and state.” As a board member she hopes to encourage teachers to discuss their faith more freely in the classroom. Instead of clamming up when a student mentions Jesus, she says teachers should “let them go there, follow their faith all the different ways, and then we’re gonna have kids who are going to know how to work across lines of difference.”

https://www.texasobserver.org/natalie-b ... rch-state/

https://drnatalieblasingam.wixsite.com/ ... /educators

This is the school district I used to teach for. I've met this woman and my daughter was on that swim team. This woman is creepy AF and treated my daughter like shit. I am not at alll surprised. CFISD still has a lot of shady "motivational speakers" that come give speeches at school, talk about how much they love their mom, and lift all kinds of weights and do stunts, then at the very end of the presentation, they are invited to church. The kids are too naive to realize what is happening.