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The “you don’t have to listen” argument has been thrown out more than once.

A couple of cases or issues come to mind. A school board member is not an employee of a school but is a government official who makes laws just like a member of the city council, the state or US Congress. Those laws may be unconstitutional and although a government official can’t be sued directly, the school district can be. The official won’t be paying for the contempt of court out of his pocket but the school district that he represents might be. In Kennedy, he was praying on school grounds but in a personal prayer after the game. The school district had the mistaken belief, which several districts do, that anytime a person prays while at work or on government grounds that it is a violation of the Constitution. It isn’t. The Supreme Court ruled that the prayer was private and Kennedy’s coaching duties for the school district had ended after the game. In a southeast Texas case (actually from the same district that Nederland and PNG were in as recently as 2022) that went to the Supreme Court, Santa Fe ISD v. Doe. In SFISD the Supreme Court ruled that even student led prayer prior to a football game violated the Establishment Clause. The school district had no say so in the prayer. The students elected whether to have a prayer and voted on a student who was to give the prayer. Since no school employee was involved and in since the students had complete control and the district only allowed the opportunity to do student prayer, thought that it would pass a constitutional challenge. It didn’t. If the students on their own wanted to pray, great. Student led prayer for the masses at a football stadium, who are free to leave or not attend if they don’t like it, had their rights violated according to the Supreme Court. As recently as two months ago in the Fifth Circuit Court in New Orleans, they unanimously ruled that Louisiana having basically the same law as Texas requiring the Ten Commandments, violated the Constitution. The Fifth Circuit has jurisdiction over Texas and only the Supreme Court can overturn the Fifth Circuit. I am not endorsing the decisions but only stating them as I believe they were ruled.

The traditions have mostly been ruled unconstitutional. The Supreme Court doesn’t set statutory laws however. They can’t fine or jail a person for violating the Constitution. That is left to state and federal district judges or juries who can assess penalties in a lawsuit. What that means is, until someone files in lawsuit, there is no harm. As soon as someone does then there might be a temporary restraining order soon, followed by an injunction, pending the outcome. So when someone finally files with the court and the judge issues that restraining order or injunction and when he starts assessing a $1000 a day contempt of court fine to the school district if they continue, they will have to reevaluate their decision.

This was from that well known slanted political media outlet Fox News from last week It is cited in The Hill article. It shows that in the 30 states that report the party of registered voters, the “Republicans added up to 4.5 million voters compared to Democrats”. “I think it should be an alarm” for the party, Democratic strategist Eddie Vale. “I think it’s a real problem.” So a Democrat strategist said that it’s a real problem. Hmmm… [Hidden Content] Oh, I made a mistake. The original article isn’t from Fox News but from the New York Times which is so far left that it’s in danger of falling off the planet.

It’s a flip flop seat in a state senate or basically a local election. In the last 30 years it has been a Democrat seat 4 times, independent once and Republican 5 times. Stunning victory!! A seat which has been Republican 5 of the last 10 elections is again Democrat. The mid-terms are over! 😳😳😳 🤣🤣🤣

Let’s assume arguendo that this is correct. They are here to spy and have been vetted for such. According to the article there are already 270,000 CCP students in the US. Let’s go with the intelligence gathering numbers. Some students may just be well connected and are actually here to learn with no intelligence gathering assignment. So being conservative we can put the current number of spies acting as students at 150,000. That leaves 120,000 actual students currently in the country. I am thinking that spies are not going to be in Groves trying to find out the current prices of Blue Bell ice cream at HEB. More likely they are going to be in cities with perhaps technology jobs, government contracts or obviously research universities since they are students. Cities the size of Kountze or Nederland are going to have research universities or any likely government contracts. Restricting this intelligence gathering to cites with over 100,000 people (like Beaumont), the CCP students have 346 US cities to choose from. Under our current situation with only slightly over half of the CCP students acting as spies, each of those cities already has over 400 spies. So Beaumont, TX has 400 Chinese spies masquerading as students. If all of the 270,000 students are spies as you suggest, we currently have almost 800 CCP spies in every city in the US with over 100,000 people. So under your scenario, Beaumont could currently have about 800 CCP spies but it could balloon to over 1,000 if Trump strikes a deal. Really? If the current 270,000 trained spies are getting the intelligence……. EDIT: Tpyo

No, it’s not okay if it’s for political reasons. They are completely different cases though. It’s like saying that a person involved in a fender bender with no injuries is the same as a drunk driver that injures someone and saying, they are both just vehicle accidents.

I was about to start another thread about this. Canada on August 1: “Oh yeah, Trump is imposing tariffs on us!? We will retaliate with a 25% tariff on US goods. That’ll show them!!” 3 weeks later… Canada: “Okay, we will drop our tarrifs.” 😎 I said it months ago about the trade imbalance. Canada has about 20% of its GDP coming from exports to the US and for Mexico it’s maybe 35% with much more reliant on Mexicans working in the US and sending money home. Mexico would likely crumble if trade to the US was halted. They can play hardball if they want or they can negotiate with Trump.

I am assuming that the Nederland first team offense played for one quarter against the WB first team defense. Then they swapped. The second teams came on and did the same. Then the one quarter game conditions… kind of. If that’s what I watched, only the WB second team obviously had more depth. What I am assuming were the first teams played fairly even although it was so highly regulated it was hard to tell. It seemed like anyone within about 5 feet of the quarterback was considered a tackle but they called it for both teams. It is better to be safe in a practice.

They kicked extra points so 7-7.

So possibly lose a quarter of a million dollars in state funding for a very small district in order to go to a lower football classification?

According to the article it’s not the score but a campus that has had an F for 5 consecutive years. It was more like 8-9 years but they got the covid exemption. So for almost a decade they have a school not meeting the minimum standard.

What does DOGE have to do with fighting crime? You could be the most frugal person, but how do you deal with law enforcement, firefighting in the military? We can save many trillions of dollars every decade by simply doing a way with those three groups or simply cutting them in half. If that’s your solution, great.

And a caveat, certainly one of the options is to merely allow BISD to close a campus or campus. Okay, where do the students go? Do other nearby campuses have the capacity.?

Either shut down a school(s) or we are taking over…… again. Like Yogi said, something like, this feels like Déjà Vu all over again. 🤣 So for the second time in recent history, it looks like the TEA is going to come in and kick the BISD school board out. Interesting in the article is where it mentions BISD hiring an outside company to operate several failing schools. Is it just me or does it seem odd that you elect and pay the school board to run the school district and part of that duty is to hire trained school officials to run the schools from the superintendent, principals, counselors, teachers, etc. BISD’s response , let’s hire a company to run our schools! I am going to guess that many of those school officials are being paid handsomely…. to let a company run them?

I believe that was what he was referring to, enrolling at SPISD and withdrawing from PAISD. There are four schools districts inside the boundaries of the Port Arthur city limits. I don’t know about now, but Sabine Pass used to run a couple of school buses up to the Intercoastal Canal Bridge in the mornings and afternoons to pick up PAISD student transfers in order to keep parents from driving all the way down there and back every day.

Depending on what you mean, that is part of “circumstances”.

I don’t know about this claimed state of emergency but I suspect that it frees up funding that she wants to get her hands on. I do think the woman is a nut case and extremist. She suspended Second Amendment rights in a couple of counties because of an “emergency”. Like, I don’t like guns in private hands so I will just declare an emergency. I didn’t take long for that silliness to be slapped down by a federal judge. Maybe interesting, a Biden appointed federal judge ruled on the case. Although this case is not a gun issue, her prior using of an emergency declaration to curtail fundamental rights should bring questions into her actions. It seems like her trump card (NPI) when things don’t go her way is to declare an emergency.

Public profanity or abusive language can be a crime or it can be protected speech. It depends on the location, people in the area and what was said. The exact same words can be both protected or a crime depending on circumstances.

Well, if it didn’t happen to me, it must be false. 🤣🤣🤣 That’s the Ostrich Effect.