Bill allows school safety funds to be used to hire chaplains instead of paying for security cameras, physical barriers and security officers.
Bills have advanced in the Legislature to require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in each classroom, create periods of prayer or Bible study at schools and allow chaplains to be hired as school employees.Texas GOP eyes separation of church and state in schools after Supreme Court prayer ruling
As part of the chaplain bill, school safety and security funds could be used to hire members of the clergy instead of paying for security cameras, physical barriers, security officers and active shooter plans. It's left open what roles or jobs the chaplains could do, but part of the pitch from proponents of the bill has been thatOn Tuesday morning in the House, the Public Education Committee held a hearing for the Ten Commandments bill, which has also already been passed by the Senate and has a strong chance of becoming law.
Timothy Barton, president of the Christian-conservative group Wallbuilders, was invited by the committee to testify. He said the world is experiencing moral decay, including crime and violence in schools, and the situation calls for a return to the Ten Commandments as “the basis of morals of all Western civilization.”“If we had more people following the Ten Commandments we would solve as many of the issues we are seeing today.
After 19 children and two teachers were killed in Uvalde last year, there were widespread calls for the Legislature to address gun violence.— have argued gun control measures would be the most effective way to stop future shootings, Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans have instead laid groundwork to spend up to $1 billion on measures to make schools more secure or to protect the mental health of schoolchildren.
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