Tom Horne Superintendent | Arizona Department of Education
Horne has expressed concerns about the closure of schools, attributing it to parents' dissatisfaction with what he describes as "woke ideology" in educational settings. He stated, “This happens because of the expenditure of a large amount of campaign funds to elect woke school board members who do not represent their communities. Parents have a choice, so they move their children. The school boards in these districts have no one to blame but themselves for allowing the classroom to be corrupted from a place of learning to a venue for indoctrination in woke principles. Districts can change this and renew their focus on the essential subjects of reading, math, science, history and the arts.”
He also commented on recent actions by the Scottsdale school district: “The Scottsdale school district has yet again decided to push woke ideology on its students and their parents. The most recent example was discovered by a parent group that discovered the district is using its resources to promote ‘nonbinary youth, gender expansive’ children and girls to participate in a bicycling event; heterosexual males need not apply. This is a blatant effort to sexualize young children, which is an unconscionable and reckless use of taxpayer resources. It also normalizes the idea that biological boys are no different than girls. It is no wonder that parents are taking children out of Scottsdale schools and choosing education options that emphasize academics over the woke agenda.”
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