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Houston school district to turn libraries into disciplinary centers

www.theguardian.com

Houston school district to turn libraries into disciplinary centers

Critics condemn superintendent Mike Miles’s ‘new education system’ that removes students’ access to books

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2y ago

Houston school district to turn libraries into disciplinary centers

www.theguardian.com /us-news/2023/jul/29/houston-school-district-libraries-book

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Houston isn’t doing this. The Texas state government is doing it. Abbott and his colleagues have taken over the Houston independent school district.
They are just turning schools into prisons. They want locked doors, armed guards, and displinary centers? Sounds like prison
- Let's be honest here, this isn't their real goal, they want to turn all of Texas into a prison unless you're rich.
  
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  Privately run prison(s) ... to make up for their waning oil revenues.
Fun fact: In Norway, "Texas" is used as slang for a crazy or chaotic situation.
For example, if a group of Tunnel Snakes got into a fight with some nuns on the bus, you could say "det var helt Texas på bussen i dag", meaning "it was totally Texas on the bus today."
When stupid decision are made here in my country, I think we are the biggest idiots in the world. But watching this kind of news shows that entire world is getting dumb.
I cannot imagine that any politician wants to deny access to knowledge. Something doesn't make sense about it and I suspect the story is one-sided.
Is there a possibility that they plan to use digital books in the future and consider libraries a waste of space or something like that?
- I think denying certain people access to knowledge has been a goal of many politicians for some time.

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