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Aubrey Independent School District in Texas has common sense. Their mascot is the Chaparral which is known as the road runner birds. They have a bird statue in the front of their High School declaring to everyone that they are the proud Chaparrals.
The bird logo appears on the front page of the school’s website which also has the Aubrey Independent School District logo. That logo appears in bright colors within the high school gymnasium. Every school in the district probably has the same logo in each of the gyms.
They’re proud of who they are. They’re proud of their road runner mascot and symbol. There is nothing wrong with being proud about it and declaring it for all to see. Yet, students, are prohibited from wearing any clothing with a large logo on it.
Phil Rolen and his wife are Air Force veterans, and their eleven-year-old twins Kaidence and Abigail were born on an Air Force base. The girls attend Aubrey Middle School. School staff told them they could not wear a zip-up sweatshirt with the Air Force logo on the back.
The twins purchased the jackets with money they earned by selling cakes in a jar. As most young girls are, they were excited to wear their new clothes. The fact the sweatshirts had the logo reflecting their Mom and Dad’s service was just a bonus in their eyes.
The girls did not expect the reaction they received from teachers once they stepped into their 5th-grade classrooms. “She yelled at me and said that’s out of the dress code and that she would get me in trouble if I wore something out of dress code,” Kaidence said.
Teachers, parents, school officials, and people across the country got involved. Instead of digging in their heels and declaring parents to be racist terrorists, the school looked at their policy and made common-sense changes. Students were allowed to wear pro-military clothing with logos of any size.
In school districts across the country, school administrators and parents have declared war on one another. Schools, and many times their teachers, are instituting controversial classroom topics, teaching methods, and social justice preaching.
Parents are attending school boards and paying attention to school actions and they’re not happy with what they are seeing. From critical race theory to transgenderism, parents are now fighting back all over the country.
In California, a San Juan Hills High School teacher has stirred up controversy through her library of “queer” books. Students of Danielle Serio, who goes by the nickname Flint, have had access to the information of the sexually explicit book for five years, Fox News reports.
Serio did not back down when her social media post enraged parents across the country. Her situation will soon come to the forefront of the school district. Unfortunately, the conversation is not discussing her skill as a teacher.
Yes, her library needs to be revised and restricted. Should she lose her job? It all depends on whether or not she is any good at it. If she is not, Serio needs to be removed from her position for trying to influence her students with her personal choices.
If Serio is good, she needs to be on an action plan where her lifestyle should not influence her teaching. We need good teachers but even more so, we need common sense across the country.
We can all learn something from Phil Rolen, his twin daughters, and the Aubrey Independent School District. They had an issue that became a social media firestorm. Instead of making it worse, they used common sense to make actual effective change.
