{"id":31462,"date":"2016-02-15T08:35:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T14:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=31462"},"modified":"2016-02-15T11:59:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T17:59:26","slug":"the-new-grabitt-education-acts-of-2016-or-grin-and-bear-it-teachers-taxpayers-by-jay-hughes-mississippi-district-12-representative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/the-new-grabitt-education-acts-of-2016-or-grin-and-bear-it-teachers-taxpayers-by-jay-hughes-mississippi-district-12-representative\/","title":{"rendered":"The New \u201cGRABITT\u201d Education Acts of 2016 (Or, “GRIN AND BEAR IT TEACHERS & TAXPAYERS”) by Jay Hughes, Mississippi District 12 Representative"},"content":{"rendered":"

The powerful school privatization lobbyists and A.L.E.C. <\/a>have spoken, and your elected majority leaders have listened.\u00a0 These proposed bills are just a sample of the punishment to come to a silent majority in Mississippi who dared to support fully funding public schools and teachers last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

FREE SPEECH ANYONE?<\/strong>\u00a0 Not so fast.\u00a0 HB49<\/a> would prohibit for any teacher having or sharing any opinion or ideas about anything political or policy \u2013 regardless if broken, at any time near any students or on school or athletic grounds or trips.\u00a0 Break this rule and get a $10,000 fine and fired.<\/span><\/p>\n

SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS?<\/strong>\u00a0 HB49<\/a> also applies to them, but only anytime they are awake or asleep, regardless of where they are. It is tough to reconcile with HB76 by the same author, which requires candidates to declare a political party. You\u2019re fired!<\/span><\/p>\n

SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE \u2013 NOT HERE<\/strong>!\u00a0 HB50<\/a> will have public school teacher paid by your tax dollars teaching creationism from the Bible as a scientific theory.\u00a0 That cutting edge lesson should help us out of 50th<\/sup> place.<\/span><\/p>\n

MAEP<\/strong> \u2013 will only be taught in History class as a relic of the past.\u00a0 HB458 &HB469<\/a> would require a full overhaul of the funding formula, and further underfund our last-place schools.<\/span><\/p>\n

VOUCHERS ANYONE<\/strong>?\u00a0 HB943<\/a> will send your public tax dollars to private academies and religious\/parochial schools, regardless of what religious views you believe or don\u2019t believe.\u00a0 Want to take a wild guess who will be the lucky ones to get to go to a private school near you on your tax dollars?<\/span><\/p>\n

SCHOOL CHOICE \/ ATHLETIC RECRUITING<\/strong> here we come HB1015<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0 Students in underperforming districts will get to go to other better districts and take their local tax dollars with them with HB206<\/a>.\u00a0 Hope your child is a great ballplayer or runner.<\/span><\/p>\n

WHEN YOU HAVE A MINUTE:<\/strong>\u00a0 Since teachers have so much spare time, now that recess is also history, HB224<\/a> would fine schools $1,500 per day for each time they did not recite the Pledge of Allegiance within the first hour of the day.<\/span><\/p>\n

FINALLY, CHARTER SCHOOLS<\/strong>:\u00a0 The elephant got its nose under the tent in 2013 for only failing districts.\u00a0 Now, HB1042<\/a> would permit these profit schools to operate in A and B districts, statewide, with no approval by local school boards and no district lines – statewide.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is a sampling of the many proposed bills\u00a0of GRABITT<\/strong>.\u00a0 If you have an opinion, please go to the Legislative Home Page and reach out to your Senator or House Member before it is too late.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jay Hughes
\n<\/span>District 12 Representative
\n<\/span>It ALL starts with education!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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