Texas Democrats have put forward a U.
S. Senate nominee whose own classroom record suggests he treated public education as a vehicle for partisan indoctrination rather than neutral instruction.
According to the Gateway Pundit, Texas Senate Democratic nominee James Talarico, who previously worked as a middle school language arts teacher in San Antonio, is now under renewed scrutiny after old social media posts resurfaced showing he had his sixth-grade students write Obama memoirs and urged them to watch the Democratic National Convention. As reported by The Daily Wire, Facebook posts from the 2011 and 2012 school years on Talaricos teacher page at Jeremiah Rhodes Middle School reveal a pattern of weaving his personal political preferences into classroom assignments for impressionable children.
In a November 13, 2012, post made just days after President Barack Obama defeated Republican nominee Mitt Romney, Talarico wrote, Today, we finished writing our Obama memoirs. Weve been learning about narrative non-fiction writing like memoirs for the past 2 weeks. He went on to explain, Students wrote a memoir of Election Night from the point of view of a member of the Obama family. Awesome job, Wildcats!
A photograph attached to that post showed a student essay displayed under the word Victory!!!!!! in large letters, underscoring the celebratory, partisan tone surrounding the assignment. In another post, Talarico boasted of showcasing the student memoirs on a classroom wall alongside images of the Obama family and the Obama campaign logo, effectively turning a public-school hallway into a campaign-themed display.
Critics note that Talarico has long wrapped his far-left politics in religious language, using Christianity as a rhetorical tool to advance progressive causes that often conflict with traditional values. Against that backdrop, it is hardly surprising to many conservatives that he would also use his authority as a teacher to normalize Democrat messaging among young students.
For a party that routinely accuses conservatives of politicizing education, Democrats decision to elevate Talarico to a statewide Senate nomination in Texas raises serious questions about their own standards. With the general election approaching, Republicans expect that stuff like this about Talarico is going to continue to drop from now until election day, and given the volume of bizarre material on this guy, opposition researchers are already calling him the gift that keeps on giving.
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