What kind of teachers can you expect to attract? I never heard of Charlie Kirk until I read an article about him handing out t-shirts at UT-Austin. Texas is weird, and not in a good way.

and targeting those that didn't show enough fealty. Remember they want to destroy public school teachers because they are smart and compassionate, and often support Democrats (finacially too). That is what it has to do with education. They were making examples of teachers because they are the backbone of the middle class. And they want the middle class weak and afraid.

...they want them GONE.

A deep red state where education isn't valued, especially for voters. The Texas GOP overlords are educated. After all, you have to be slightly smarter than the morons you want to control en masse.

Not wanting to make a cake for a gay wedding.

That is unbelievable. They should win that lawsuit, even in Texas.

Hillbillies..Uneducated...Dumbfuks

Texas is Baja Oklahoma.

Not a compliment.

..it's definitely not OK. Oklahoma is in a race to the bottom with Mississippi.

Freedom of speech looks like it doesn’t exist in the Lone Star State. Good on the AFT, this infringement of speech needs to be seriously challenged and those who were prosecuted need their jobs returned to them and administrators who agreed to torment teachers need to be canned…for good.

Sounds like the separation of church and state is nonexistent in the Lone Star State.

We'll see what happens in November, as for the first time since the 1980's there is a Dem in every state race.

Specifically - nothing in the article suggests that complaints were about educators who either (1) did not properly praise or (2) did not mourn Kirk's death. (That phrase didn't turn up in any of the first couple of pages of a google search, either.)

Acting on the complaints likely violates free speech protections, anyway. But accurate reporting matters.

Or even accurately paraphrasing it (although it is improper to put a paraphrase in quotation marks). There is simply no such phrase in the article. I followed both links, did a find in page search - and did a separate google search to see what other article the quote might have come from.

There is no suggestion in the article that individuals were being reported for failing to praise, or failing to mourn Kirk.

This quote:

I've been to TX many times and for the life of me I can't figure out why anyone would live there on purpose.

She complains about Gavin Newsom... a few years ago she was complaining about Kamala Harris. Signed petitions to recall Newsom and D.A. Gascon. (Imagine trading them in for Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton!) I chat with her occasionally when we happen to meet at the elevator or in the laundry room.... I only ever ask how her doggies are.... never about anything in the realm of politics. She posts on the NextDoor web site that's how I know some of this. But recently she mentioned to me she's having a hard time affording the rent and is thinking of moving to Houston.... go figure.

If she’s looking for cheaper, perhaps Indiana.

Nothing against TX outside of politics. It’s just not my thing.

NOT Gavin.
In point of fact, ALL the Laws are the product of deliberations by Lawfully Elected Legislators empowered by voters in their Districts.
Just like in Texas.
Up ’til now, of course.
Perhaps she’ll be happier under an unaccountable and uncaring Authoritarian who NEVER pumped-or-payed-for a gallon of gas or bought a dozen eggs in his life.
The Dumb goes deep.
And, YES, PLEASE… move to Texas and take your Stupidity with you. (Win-Win… and take your MAGA vote with you.)

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects several fundamental rights, including the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and the right to petition the government. It was adopted on December 15, 1791, as part of the Bill of Rights.

You will learn that Texas has never put a very high value on education. Get 'em stupid and keep 'em that way.

The only real reason they have a university system is to provide venues for football teams.

and maybe think about changing the name texas to something a little more civilized.

The tweet in the OP is a lie.

termination. However, the fact that their posts were targeted because they did the opposite of mourning and praising suggest that if they has mourned and praised Kirk they would not have been targeted. The result is exactly the same. My take on the OP is that they extrapolated from the actual action and rationale given and concluded that failure to mourn and praise was the real reason for the attack on the teachers. I don't think the OP suggests those were the words used by the prosecutors - they were putting 2 and 2 together and coming up with 4.

I don’t find anywhere where it says they’re being investigated for not praising him. I agree that expressing their opinion should not get them fired — but I think it’s important to report exactly what it is that they were fired for or reported for. It wasn’t anything about failing to praise Kirk.

And people complain about Fox viewers!

At last there’s a couple of people in this thread pushing back on the spreading of disinformation.

"On Sept. 11, a day after the assassination, Brewer told a freshman class that “he didn’t care that Charlie Kirk died,” RSU 67 board Chair Rebbecca Hanscom said at last month’s meeting. Brewer also “found it ironic that Charlie Kirk was shot,” Hanscom said, referencing a video of Kirk that circulated on social media in the wake of the assassination in which the right-wing political activist had argued that a certain number of gun deaths would have to be tolerated in order to uphold the Second Amendment."

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/01/06/maine-high-school-teacher-fired-for-comments-about-charlie-kirks-assassination/

They don’t get the same Constitutional Right to Free Speech “Charlie Died For”?
Did Texas expunge the definition of “Irony” from Webster’s Dictionary?
Clearly unlawful “Over-Reach”.
Looking back, Dems should have burned the playbook and rounded-up all the actual “Seditionists” before Inauguration Day and deported them to Gitmo. Shoulda-Coulda-Woulda.