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Any involvement by anyone else should ONLY be in a supportive role.

PARENTS gave away RIGHTS just as Voters gave away RIGHTS.
The TIME has come for US to take our responsibilities SERIOUSLY and TAKE those RIGHTS BACK.

While there need to be Conservatives on the SBOE, Brian Russell is not one of them. He is a lawyer and the last thing any government body needs is another lawyer. Plus he homes schools his three daughters. That is his right. But he has no right to set policy for public school children when he will not even put his own children into public school. That is how you define a sanctimonious hypocrite. Texas state government already has enough of those!

Maybe Mr. Russell would like his kids to be in public school but some schools are so bad that it would be child abuse to put them there if you can home school. He does have a right to be involved. Anyone who cares about our children or grand-children’s education has a right.

Don’t home school parents pay school taxes? Just sayin—–

Brian Russell is a brilliant individual who understands what we need on the SBOE! i

If an individual is qualified and has the time to home school MORE power to them.
To eliminate anyone based on their belief they can educate their own children better than the public system is like NOT allowing an individual to vote because they think politicians are dishonest and cannot be TRUSTED.

We need more information. We cannot afford to send less than the very best at every level of our government. Not all lawyers are bad. This man sounds good but I want more on his background and his prior actions. Words are nice, but don’t always communicate the actual situation. I see his decision to home school his children as smart.

I really do like his take on our textbooks. Having conservatives at the SBOE is in fact critical to our future. Our system has been hijacked by liberals, and is infiltrated by the homosexuals and Islamists. It is worse than you think. For starters, read “Indoctrination U” by David Horowitz and make your legislators, school board members, etc. also read it. It’s only 135 pp.

It was in the 10th Region that prospective teachers were required to read outrageous liberal
books and papers saying they have to be committed to making students global citizens, not American citizens. “Teachers to be held accountable for any ‘hetrosexist’ leanings and must be agents working ot change society.” It is worse. Details posted on WorldNetDaily, December 19th by Bob Unruh with the title “Texas Education Agency”

WE MUST TAKE CONTROL OF OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM OR LOSE OUR FREEDOMS. They want to indoctrinate our children rather than teach them to think.

I am sure that Mr. Russell pays property taxes. That in itself gives him the right to be on the Board. Also, there are many reasons why one may not choose the public school system. One is negative social influence , another could be a religious issue, another could very will be that he can provide a superior education to his children. For me, the primary qualifications would be that he abides by both the US and the Texas Constitution, that our proud history not be revised or excluded, and he has an equal appreciation for public, private, and home Schools. That all of the children in those education systems receive the support they need to become the best citizens that they can become.

One of the reasons I put my son in a private Christian school was the nonsense of teaching the “whole language” approach to reading, rather than the use of phonics.” I also wanted my son to get a Christian education. Test scores prove that home-schoolers and private schools give a vastly superior education in comparison to the public school. I can’t blame Mr. Russell for home-schooling his daughters. I just went to his Facebook site. I wish I could vote for him but can’t. He appears to be a Christian and conservative.

Here’s one of the postings on his website. “Brian Russell speaks on behalf of Eagle Forum, calling on Gov. Perry to veto SB1440, which would have granted CPS power to transport and examine a child based upon a complaint of abuse without a hearing.” Go Brian Go! Texas Needs You!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brian-Russell/212811889227

I want to clarify that I can’t vote for Brian Russell because I’m not in his district.

District 10 already has representation by a conservative, smart, home-schooling attorney. Mr. Russell’s election would not change, nor increase, conservative representation on the SBOE.

Why should someone who doesn’t participate in public education be in charge of it? What does Mr. Russell know of public education? of curriculum standards? Why does he only support abstinence programs, when Texas has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the country?

Dan and Concerned:
Your main point is absurd. I would compare it to this question: If the public water supply were poisoned and I chose to drink only bottled water, would that mean I could never serve on the Board of a water district trying to improve the public water??

No one has to sacrifice his or her own children to a dangerous or inferior school in order to serve on the State Board of Education.
The article written by Mr. Russell obviously indicates that he has the intelligence and discernment to support strong curriculum standards.

Abstinence programs do not send the mixed message of other programs which tell young kids, “It’s best to avoid premarital sex, but we basically assume you are going to need contraception.” Good grief! The success rates for abstinence-only education are growing every year, and these are morally and emotionally far more healthy approaches for kids to hear.

I am sickened and disgusted by Mr Russell and his cohorts on the BOE, and frankly it makes me want to remove my own child from public school for fear that instead of accurate scientific FACTS, they will be taught Mr Russell’s religious beliefs thinly veiled as “Intelligent Design”. I have read the remarks by board members Dunbar and McLeroy calling for THEIR “god” to be put back in school, and their twisted ideas of American History to be taught instead of actual facts, and expressing their fears about the “dangers” of tolerance and diversity. This is NOT what I want MY children to learn! The legislature actually had to step in to stop McLeroy from being appointed head of the board due to his extreme right wing evangelistic ideas. Make no mistake, this is NOT Republicanism–this is RELIGION, pure and simple, masquerading as politics, and they won;t be happy until they have forced their religion–and a very narrow definition of it at that–on everyone in the country.

You try to insinuate that only right wing evangelical christians are TRUE Americans, but that is completely false! The Jesus I know would be disgusted and revolted at your self righteous, smug, superior attitude. You cannot legislate morality, and you cannot force religion on public school children and I will fight your efforts to do so with my dying breath.