In the latest example of why your local school board’s matter, a conservative activist was recently removed from a public meeting, for reading out of a book that is available to kid’s in HISD school libraries.
“They were not my words that I was speaking when I stood up there” said activist Bonnie Wallace, “These were words that were Houston ISD’s words, directly from the district’s own library materials, by the way paid for with taxpayer dollars.”
Simple, straight forward, and the truth. But a truth that the HISD Board did not want to hear, which is why they ordered 3 police officers to remove Wallace not only from the meeting, but they also forced her to get into her car and drive away. Talk about authoritarianism!
“It’s hypocrisy” Wallace told KTRH, “They removed me for displaying their own hypocrisy of their library book policy. Once a board can just silence a viewpoint that it doesn’t like, no one’s voice is safe.”
That is why Wallace has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against HISD.
“Why was the content purchased in the first place with tax dollars, for minors?” noted Wallace, “All I did was read aloud from the district’s own speech. They did not like it.”
And they don’t like being confronted, or asked about it either.
We reached out to HISD for comment and reaction, but they did not respond to our request.