TEA directed to make schools safer
Gov. Greg Abbott has directed the Texas Education Agency to ensure school facilities are made safer in the wake of the killing of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary in Uvalde.
Gov. Greg Abbott has directed the Texas Education Agency to ensure school facilities are made safer in the wake of the killing of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary in Uvalde.
The sun still sets in the west, and it is imaginable that a cowboy is watching and wondering if his days are numbered. It’s a notion recounted by J. Frank Dobie’s renditions of Texas, every Zane Grey and Louis L’Amour novel, two Monte Walsh movies, lionized in ballads from Marty Robbins to Red Steagall – and on and on.
I wasn’t aware of the code because, in my youth, I knew the code. It wasn’t a secret code back then. It was a code that was learned, and then, one day, we weaponized it against the youngsters. We have recently been able to pull the wool over the younger generation and pass information back and forth that they would have their heads exploding.
I have been trying, for as long as I can remember and with limited success, to learn Spanish.
I can’t ignore what happened in Uvalde as I write this article. I have to take you down the rabbit hole instead of this being a light, good-humored piece. I am not ashamed to say that I cried that day. I was so saddened by what happened, I almost could not work the rest of the day. This did not occur in the dark of night when cockroaches love to roam. It happened in the light of day with the parent’s light of their lives being extinguished. How could this have happened… again?
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