u/BlueCandleSnake

just venting; i realize this is small potatoes compared to what others might be going through.

at our staff meeting today our principal told us that he was meeting with parents and students from our high income feeder schools (elementary -> middle -> high school) because they go private. and he’s been having meetings, events, and invited some of our students to basically sell our school.

i don’t want them in my school. if i have to sell you the concept of a public education to get you to attend, you’re going to hate it here. it really hacks me off that instead of spending time with the students here or students who HAVE to attend public school, our principal is just not doing that. i don’t know. thanks for reading.

TEA has released their "final draft" of required readings in ELAR courses.

Public Comment Period: May 15, 2026-5:00 p.m. on June 15, 2026. The SBOE will take registered oral and written comments on the proposal at the appropriate committee meeting in June 2026 in accordance with the SBOE board operating policies and procedures. A form for submitting public comments on proposed SBOE rules is available on the proposed SBOE rules web page.
Proposed Effective Date: 20 days after filing as adopted with the Texas Register

Bonus points if you can find the misspelling below. This is copied and pasted from the legislative docs:

English I Animal Farm George Orwell

English I The Clever Teens' Guide to the Russian Revolution Felix Rhodes

English I I, Pencil Leonard E. Read 978-1572462090

English I Lyceum Address Abraham Lincoln

English I Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley

English I Great Expectations Charles Dickens

English I -A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain (excerpt Chapters 1, 2 and 6) Michael Paterson

English I Love is not all Edna St. Vincent Millay

English I Parable of the Prodigal Son (Book of Luke, Chapter 15, Verses 11-32) English Standard Translation: New Testament

Figure: 19 TAC §110.70(f)(2) Required Literary Works List – English II

This list of literary works is required as described in administrative rule 19 TAC §110.70.

English II The Tragedy of Julius Caesar William Shakespeare

English II General Douglas MacArthur’s Farewell Speech to the Corps of Cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (excerpt paragraph 3: Duty, Honor, Country) Douglas MacArthur

English II Eulogy for President Reagan Margaret Thatcher

English II Pericles’ Funeral Oration (excerpt of Book 2 from Chapters 34- 46 of History of the Peloponnesian War)

Thucydides (edited by M.I. Finley and translated by Rex Warner)

English II The Raven Edgar Allen Poe

English II The Inferno Dante Alighieri

English II The Book of Job (Book of Job, Chapters 1-7,11,14,19,28,38-42)

New International Reader’s Version: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament

English II I've Been to the Mountaintop Martin Luther King, Jr.

English II Chapter 1 The ’Middle’ Ages?, Chapter 2 People and Their Lifestyles, Chapter 3 The Big Idea: Christian Salvation, Chapter 4 Kingship, Lordship, and Government (excerpts from The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction) Miri Rubin

Figure: 19 TAC §110.70(f)(3) Required Literary Works List – English III

This list of literary works is required as described in administrative rule 19 TAC §110.70.

English III Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury

English III Dear Mr. McCarthy, I am very real (excerpt, Section 1 from Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage) Kurt Vonnegut

English III What is Capitalism? (excerpt, Section 1 from Capitalism, The Unknown Ideal) Ayn Rand

English III Flattering Unction (excerpt, Chapter 1 from The Vision of the Anointed) Thomas Sowell

English III The Veldt (excerpt from The Illustrated man) Ray Bradbury

English III The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne

English III Adam and Eve (Book of Genesis, Chapters 2 and 3 New International Reader’s Version: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament

English III The Minister’s Black Veil Nathaniel Hawthorne

English III We Wear the Mask Paul Laurence Dunbar

Figure: 19 TAC §110.70(f)(4) Required Literary Works List – English IV

This list of literary works is required as described in administrative rule 19 TAC §110.70.

English IV Hamlet William Shakespeare

English IV Hamlet and His Problems (excerpt from The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism) T. S. Eliot

English IV If Rudyard Kipling

English IV The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T. S. Eliot

English IV Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen

English IV The Definition of Love (Book of 1 Corinthians, Chapter 13) English Standard Version: New Testament

English IV “Hope” is the thing with feathers Emily Dickinson

English IV The Parson’s Daughter of Oxney Colne Anthony Trollope

English IV When I Was One-and-Twenty A. E. Housman

Venting

Required ELA Reading: Comments Open