Stray thoughts

It has been a hot minute. As always, my students garner more and more of my attention as the semester moves along. So much has happened while my attention has been turned. We have so much goin on in Texas with the leg fight for school vouchers. It feels like we have no hope of being able to fund out public schools while rich parents in the cities get a gift and money goes right into the pockets of corporations that offer nothing but slick promises. What is going to happen to all our small towns? Our rural towns will dry up and blow away and the sense of community GONE. My heart is so heavy thinking about it. No amount of citizen engagement seems to make any difference. And no amount of prayers. Here is another place where we have given away our souls for free.

Today I learned about another bill making its way through the State leg. It is a bill which would keep all people 18 and under out of a PUBLIC LIBRARY if the adult section cannot be secured. Think about that. I am NOT for kids reading just anything. However, it is for ME as the parent to say what my kids will read. Just like I always monitored what they did on their computers back in the day. Keeping kids out of libraries hurts my heart. Under at least one version, a parent cannot even allow their own kids access to the library.

I am attaching a link to information about the library bans. https://www.txftrp.org/stop_sb_2101

It does seem like we all have got Elon Musk on the run. He says he is leaving DOGE. I hope it is true and that he gets gone. But I worry that maybe he will still be in on everything and maybe not be a public facing. I found out that he seeks out certain female influencers on Twitter and boosts their profile so that they make bank with every post. Then he asks for them to get impregnated and have his baby. That is how his latest baby was born to someone named Ashley Sinclair. St. Clair said she was offered $15 million and a monthly stipend of $100,000 until the baby was 21, in exchange for agreeing to keep Musk’s relationship to the baby and to St. Clair secret. If the woman says "no thank you" then he pulls his followers and his support so her profile falls and she's left without the revenue. His goal is to have enough babies “to reach legion-level before the apocalypse.” He is vile.