Senator Bakson made a statement about Tuesday’s Senate floor debate, resolution
Dover, DE-Budhwar, on 6 March, 2024, Senator Eric Baksan (R-South Dover) issued the following statement.
“For the last five months, I have worked to draft the Senate Concurrent Resolution 117 with both the members of the Senate and House Education Chair, both the political parties and the people who have a task to check the classroom behavior and discipline Will create force. In our public schools. During these thoughtful conversations, suggestions were made and I was asked to change some languages within my first draft. On almost every occasion, I honored the requests and prepared a solution that was associate and bidle. The language that I have allowed for House and Senate Minority Leaders to appoint members of my respective Cocks Task Force. The Democrat leadership raised the issue with it, as they thought it was necessary for them to appoint all members. For me, this majority wants complete control and this is something that I have expressed deep concerns in the past.
“Unfortunately, the work of my colleagues in the House and the Senate Democratic Cocks, along with many bidleen legislators and members of the public education community, was completely disregarded due to the functions of the Senate majority leader Brian Townsend and Democratic Senate members. .
“On Tuesday, shortly before being set to call the Senate, the Senator Townsand asked me to meet. I expected to have a productive meeting that turned into an important task of political strong-strengthening. Townsend said that he had prepared a new resolution and essentially demanded that I went away from a resolution that others and I spent working in months to work and join him. He claimed that contacted by members who had expressed concern, but those concerns were never relayed for me. Concerns, I can add, which proved to be baseless after close inspection on the Senate floor.
“I want to be clear, the Senator Townsand contacted me with a request to work together on possible changes, I must have said yes. Instead, he disregarded the important work by the education community and giving the perception that we have no one It does not matter to disregard important work. Gave it something that my resolution deliberately postponed.
“For nearly 10 years, the education department has had complete control in the rule of a party. During that time, our student performance has steadily declined and our teachers’ work environment has declined. Focus on equitable consequences, in many ways, fails to see the importance of removing a disruptive student for an extended period so that the school has the ability to provide the necessary resources to the child, while the remaining students continue to move forward. We have changed three RK learning (reading, writing and arithmetic) with Dei (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion), it has failed to see if it comes to basic learning in our schools, then it fails to see . He has kept so much bureaucracy on the back of our teachers that teachers now do not really have enough time to teach.
“Along with this, it has been said, each elected democrats should not be brought into this category and many delaware Democrats feel that I do this. So let’s focus on the mission, what it is, what is this, an important resolution for this Exclude the theft, keeping the structure and accountability back in our schools so that our teachers can feel safe and respected, and our children can learn! “
Senator Eric Baksan represents the 16th Senate district and is a retired public teacher.