A father gave a fiery speech Monday during a school board meeting in Keller, Texas, pushing back against the recent discovery of pornographic material in the school’s libraries, announcing that “justice doesn’t need an adjective.”
The father began his discussion at the Keller Independent School District by arguing that parents have permitted this kind of education through recent hiring practices.
“We’ve allowed the hiring of agenda-driven teachers and administrators who dictate what books are allowed in the classroom, who attempt to politicize our children, and shame them [inaudible],” he said. “True, this is not every teacher, there are many excellent teachers in the district,” the father added, acknowledging that not every teacher in the district was at fault. (RELATED: WATCH: Texas Parents Respond To Their School Allowing Pornographic Material In Library)
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He continued his speech by stating that his child’s education in no way should constitute the discussion of political affairs, saying, “Math is not political, reading is not political, objective science and objective history are not political, and I never gave any of you permission to teach my children topics including race, gender, LGBT, sex, politics, or any other [inaudible] of topics.”
“Now, I’ll agree with the other side of the room, that mass censorship is wrong, but the alternate, which is mass permissiveness, is also wrong,” said the father.
The father issued a warning to the district if things failed to improve.
“Prepare yourselves for a mass exodus of students,” he said. “Furthermore, I encourage all the parents in here to seriously consider whether or not to keep your students in the district if things continue down this path.”
Texas has been a hotspot for parental complaints in regard to educational materials some consider unsavory or inappropriate. Since the discovery of pornographic content present in the school’s libraries, Republican Texas Gov. Abbot has filed for an investigation into the issue.
Ruthie Keyes, the president of the board of trustees for the Keller Independent School District, responded to criticism of Maia Kobabe’s book, “Gender Queer.”
“This was one of about 589,000 books in the district,” she wrote on a Facebook post. “It was immediately removed and the only reason hundreds of people saw it is because people started distributing out on social media. Those are the people that should be ashamed for distributing.”