12/04/2023
The previous video ends with one of my favorite questions…
Rep: So you don't think you been effective on the school board? Right?
Bone: I I would say actually, I've actually very I've been very effective on the school board as a minority in the school board.
Rep.: Okay, has it changed then?
Here’s the rest of that exchange…
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Bone: They're going to have to do something because you heard the other trustees that we're here today talking that our people are leaving our school district. So the parents are leaving.
Rep: So so but it hadn't changed at this point.
Bone: It will take time, right? Yeah. But in that time, we're failing kids. And that's where you all come in. So you guys can either shorten that time, or you can make that time longer. And I'm asking you to shorten that time and vote for school choice.
Rep.: Well, maybe. Is there another solution other than school choice? Like the state taking over your district or something?
Bone: Well, I mean, I would be more than happy for the state to come in and do a big takeover. And maybe that would be better. I don't know. Because, you know, we're failing a lot of students.
Rep: Yeah. Okay. And because that's what concerns me because you, you're on the school board. And we give you the responsibility to, I mean, the state has ultimate responsibility, but we give it to school boards, to perfect this whole education delivery system. And you're saying that's broken? Right. I think you saw I think point did you want to do something else other than have the school board running?
Bone: I would love if all of the control mechanisms that you all have in place. Many of the laws that you guys write, that are in play, they actually that are supposed to manage the school boards and make sure and ensure I call them guardrails, right, you guys put the guardrails in the boards are supposed to be in that guardrail. Those guardrails do not work. Lots of them the county attorney has to prosecute or the district attorney depending on where you're at, and they do not do it. So yes, sir, those guardrails do not work. I believe you're from Houston, if I understand correctly, you've seen it in your own district. Tea I think they're overwhelmed. In fact, if you go to put in a complaint on TEA 's website, they actually say we're overwhelmed with complaints about school districts. So and so they're not able to get to them.
Rep: So but but the answer, and I just wanted to include this, but the answer you believe is for this committee to pass this bill. You believe that's the solution to what's going on?
Bone: And I believe it is one of the solutions that will help solve what's going on around that. Yes, it will actually take away a part of the power from the school board trustees. And it will give it back to the parents. And now the trustees are actually going to have to negotiate with the parents. Free Market.