Many schools over Texas are closing today. It was an emotional day in McKinney.
Today was the last day for schools all across Texas that will never reopen in the fall. Here in McKinney alone, three elementary schools — Eddins, McNeil, and Wolford — are closing for good. Kids who walked those halls last week won't have a school to go back to in August.
The more I dig up on the "why", the angrier I get. A billionaire from Pennsylvania, a Wall Street options trader who has never lived in Texas — gave Greg Abbott over $10 million to purge Republican legislators who voted against school vouchers. West Texas oil and fracking billionaires Tim Dunn and the Wilks brothers have been pouring tens of millions into our state politics for 30 years trying to gut public education. And it finally worked. SB 2 passed, $1 billion in public school funding got redirected to unaccountable private schools, some that advertise as having "coaches" instead of teachers (wtf right?)
I'm angry and saddened for my kids and for the AMAZING loving and caring teachers and staff of these schools, that pour their hearts everyday, with very little support, to educate our kids.
There are no morals left in Texas politics. If money can buy little kids education, what else matters?? I despise all these people.