A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrinating kids. Then she read the curriculum.

[RandySF]

Weeks after winning a school board seat in her deeply red Texas county, Courtney Gore immersed herself in the district’s curriculum, spending her nights and weekends poring over hundreds of pages of lesson plans that she had fanned out on the coffee table in her living room and even across her bed. She was searching for evidence of the sweeping national movement she had warned on the campaign trail was indoctrinating schoolchildren.

Gore, the co-host of a far-right online talk show, had promised that she would be a strong Republican voice on the nonpartisan school board. Citing “small town, conservative Christian values,” she pledged to inspect educational materials for inappropriate messages about sexuality and race and remove them from every campus in the 7,700-student Granbury Independent School District, an hour southwest of Fort Worth. “Over the years our American Education System has been hijacked by Leftists looking to indoctrinate our kids into the ‘progressive’ way of thinking, and yes, they’ve tried to do this in Granbury ISD,” she wrote in a September 2021 Facebook post, two months before the election. “I cannot sit by and watch their twisted worldview infiltrate Granbury ISD.”

But after taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found — and didn’t find.

The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist. Children were not being sexualized, and she could find no examples of critical race theory, an advanced academic concept that examines systemic racism. She’d examined curriculum related to social-emotional learning, which has come under attack by Christian conservatives who say it encourages children to question gender roles and prioritizes feelings over biblical teachings. Instead, Gore found the materials taught children “how to be a good friend, a good human.”



https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/texas-granbury-isd-school-board-courtney-gore/

[Timeflyer]

1. She can do as FL does, and wage a culture war anyway. Who needs proof when lies are so effective?

And, gee, her hard-line supporters weren't thrilled with her findings. They'll have to lie harder.

[SupportSanity]

2. No good deed goes unpunished.

Now she is a considered a whistleblower by her former peers. She's against us now.

And all the animosity, hatred, anger and vileness they had pointing at the "bad guys"... Well, she is now the bad guy and all of it is pointing at her. Awful position to be in now that you know the truth.

The problem with the change of heart people is that when they have the change of heart, they are only one person against many. Then the former peers concentrate all that bad stuff on them.

I recommend coming out as an unnamed source as a whistle blower. It might be better. Maybe not.

Actually, I don't know of any good way of doing this. I think it's too easy to find out who the whistleblower is anymore.

Maybe staying silent, but still being a convert. Work with the democrats? Probably not.

Maybe a sudden "medical condition" which takes you out of the game.

Dunno.

I look forward to hearing any better way to do this - be a convert and stay alive.

[UpInArms]

3. I think this brave woman needs to hear

from others who support her thoughtfulness and courage.

[LuckyLib]

4. She needed to have done her homework before running.

Failure to do so says it all. She no doubt will be the only Board member who has actually read it.

[DFW]

5. The world looks different when you turn off Fox Noise and find out for yourself

Back in the beginning, when Fox Noise was just starting out, Roger Ailes was asked if his new station would attempt to be objective or not, his answer was, “we have an agenda.” He was being perfectly truthful. More people should have listened.

[RandySF]

6. There was a period when Fox had decent reporters.

They were maybe the best on the ground to cover the Hurricane Katrina aftermath.

[DFW]

7. Could well be. I wouldn't have seen that here.

And reporting facts about a natural disaster with film footage to back it up is a far cry from telling lies about documents the reporters will never show or even read on their own.

I’m sure there are plenty of instances where Fox is accurate when there no incentive for them not to be. The second their execs DO perceive an incentive to lie, however, it seems to be a given that any lie that fits a Republican agenda will be given a far higher priority at Fox than truthful reporting.