I didn't know he is an Aggie. Don't know anything about him other than the current crop of morons running for re election have to go and his campaign signs are great: "Teach ABCs and 123s, not CRTs and LGBTs"

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Can anyone give me solid information on Don Zimmerman, an Aggie who is a former Austin city councilman, running for the RRISD school board? I get nothing but extremist views from both sides when searching on the internet. I would appreciate some objective information in order to make a voting decision. Our current school board has been less than ideal.

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Doens't really matter. He's the only opponent to the incumbent who is horrible. Gotta get someone, anyone, into that seat and he's the only option. I didn't realize he is an Aggie.

With that out of the way, I have a friend who has been friend's with him for 20+ years and she tells me that he agrees with her on most issues. She is pretty conservative but is what I would consider a moderate who might be slightly to the right of center. She's not an extremist by any means.

I personally talked to him at a meet and greet. Probably has a lot of 'engineer' in him meaning very blunt and lacks tact but pretty spot on. Seems to be financially wiser than the person on the board that he's running against. I'm voting for him. Current board doesn't have a clue when it comes to finances. They claim to be looking out for the staff and teachers which is a lie. I got a 3% raise and they give the superintendent a $30,000 bonus. That's about an 8-9% bonus. Teachers and other staff didn't even come close to that.

The candidates that I really liked in talking with them at the meet and greet were Orlando Salinas, Christie Slape, and Linda Avila. They all seem to be solid people.

Thanks for your help. I cant stand his opponent. She is a racist

Look up the Bad Faith Five and vote against all of them. Easy to spot as their signs are in every D's yard.

As I stated on the F16 thread:
https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3323595

These are the candidates endorsed by the Travis County Republican Party and the SREC:

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Keagy (place 1)
Salinas (place 3)
Farris (place 4)
Slape (place 5)
Zimmerman (place 6)

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Linda was considered for place 4, but Jill Farris won the endorsement.

For Leander ISD, TCRP endorsed
Place 1: Doman (by 1 vote over Sanders)
Place 2: Burkman
Place 5: Leege
Place 7: Gauthier


I've known Don Zimmerman for many years. He's traditionally been more of a libertarian (but on the pro-life side) and served in the Austin City Council for a term. He's lead campaigns to defeat various excess spending bonds, so he'll hold the line financially. He'll come across as a bit abrasive to some folks as he calls it like he sees it. He'll be a reliable conservative pro-family vote.

Zimmerman is very much an extremest and has an established record as such. I believe he lost custody of his daughter at one point and I'm almost certain he has no school aged kids. I would question his motives for being on the board - unlikely he desires to promote academic excellent.

Don Zimmerman is the reason why there will be record turnout in the west side of the district. They all saw how ineffective he was in the Austin City Council and will most certainly turn out to vote against him.

SteveBott said:

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Could you explain your racist post about Harrison? Do you have specific examples?

As for DZ his political marketing slogan could definitely be considered racist and homophonic.

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CRT itself is racist, categorizing everyone by race as either a victim or oppressor.

Pushing the LGBT+ agenda in schools has bordered on grooming in many instances. Why not just emphasize respect for all individuals and oppose bullying by anyone?

Your post is straight up far right dogma. There is no CRT in K-12 schools. That is a fact. It a theory taught in academia. We do teach history. And to do so we must learn about facts about what happened.

The grooming remark make no sense either. Prove it

Where is that being taught in RRISD?

What bothers me about this is the fact that there are no schools mentioned. My daughter was at Westwood for 4 years and never had any issues. She ran track, cross country and did color guard in band. Westwood is also the most liberal school in the district. So if all of those things indeed happened, most of us at Westwood would have heard about it. I assume the same would be true for all of the high schools in the district.

Also, we already have a Chief Equity Officer. https://news.roundrockisd.org/2020/10/20/dewayne-street-named-round-rock-isd-chief-of-equity-diversity-and-inclusion/

As far as the district superintendent, even your linked article says, "allegedly." He came from Valley, where the past superintendents came from. Chavez and Flores both came from Harlingen.

Have you ever done anything with the school board or even attended a meeting? Ever since COVID hit, the district was caught (along with a bunch of other districts) were caught between a rock and a hard place. There were a lot of disruptions and people literally throwing tantrums during meetings. I mean, the behavior made national news. So nothing shocks me.

As far as my statement about Harrison being a racist, she promoted a book by Henry Rogers (writing as Ibram Kendi) entitled "How to be an anti-racist", which besides being sophomoric in terms of style and content, was the epitome of racism suggesting that skin color and not a person's character is what is important. I personally thought that we were past this and certainly thought that central Texans wouldn't fall for this divisive garbage. I can't support her, but wanted to make sure I knew what I was getting in Don Zimmerman. I haven't found anything he has said that has been reported to be homophobic, but rather main stream conservative. My grandkids are in RRISD schools and the "CRT" philosophy IS being pushed in SOME schools within the district...not all. It needs to be stopped...PERIOD. Educate the kids in language arts, science and math. I don't care about a teacher's sexuality as long as my grandkids don't know about it...that's not what they are in school for.

Charpie said:

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That's not what I asked.

Did they break the law?

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Not by any reasonable interpretation of the law.

Did you watch the video?

SteveBott said:

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Your post is straight up far right dogma. There is no CRT in K-12 schools. That is a fact. It a theory taught in academia. We do teach history. And to do so we must learn about facts about what happened.

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Disclaimer: I dont disagree with you. I do believe we should teach History. I actually believe there should be a bigger focus on it in our schools (those who ignore it are doomed to repeat it, and all). But I will say, my experience, with my oldest, is that the curriculum and teachers pick and choose what pieces of history, and select which viewpoints are taught to the kids.

For example, I had to help my son with a HS project last year, and the options given were very myopic in nature. The topics he had to choose from, were obviously designed to push him to a certain conclusion. It wasn't 'lets investigate this topic and provide a detailed report'. It was...'Here's the conclusion, can you show how this caused that?'. It was an opportunity, for me, to show him how to give the teacher what they wanted, but to form his own opinion by looking at the entire picture in context. But unfortunately, I know a lot of kids just walked away assuming the conclusions they were given were the only option(s).

He also had to take a dual credit history course from a local college, this past summer. The course was supposed to be about US History. But it was almost exclusively "History of the United States...as seen through a racial lens." The content was really unbelievable. Not that they'd address race, but that the ENTIRE course was from the view of 'racial injustice'. That is in no way an exaggeration.

For example, The unit on WWII did not ask any questions about Hitler. He was not mentioned in the review, the key words, the summary or the quizzes/tests. Not a single time. When we were done, my son knew very little about why we entered the war, the Key figures involved, how it affected our country and the world, etc. But he could tell you quite a bit about how racist the war was. If my son didn't know an answer for a quiz/test, he would pick the answer that sounded like it came from the most racist viewpoint, and 90% of the time it was the correct answer. I know it sounds like Im exaggerating, but I'm not even doing it justice, how skewed the course was. Out of curiosity, I looked up the text book and author, and found out it claims to be the most widely used textbook in High School and College now.

The thing that bothered me the most, is not the racial component. That's part of our history. It should be taught. But what we're giving the kids is too often a sliver of the truth, rather than the whole truth, with an obvious conclusion in mind. These kids would be better served with a complete view of history: the good, the bad, the ugly. Let them understand everything that happened in context. Give them the entire story. That way they can make educated decisions going forward, and we all benefit. Unfortunately, that's not what's happening.

(off the soapbox now)