Parents United for Freedom
2024 Vision
PUFF advocates for NEISD candidates for Board of Trustees who will:
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Prioritize teacher, student and school safety
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Help teachers love teaching
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Value Teachers
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Simplify teacher workload
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Foster stronger parent-teacher partnerships
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Raise the bar on academics, not settle for anything less
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Work for transparency
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Ensure fiscal responsibility and oversight
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Set amazing goals for the district and inspire everyone to unite behind them!
We will support the candidates who will defend and honor parental rights, which is a principal reason Parents United for Freedom was formed by Bexar County parents in 2021.
Parents United for Freedom is a non-partisan grassroots effort to defend and protect parental rights within the school system and to reclaim our schools from any harmful agendas being promoted.
Through coalition-building within our communities we are returning the focus to the kids and academics throughout San Antonio, Texas.
We want the restoration of healthy, non-political education for our children and demand accountability.
Our Mission
Parents are the Primary Educators
Empowering the Parent
As parents, we share our experiences, ideas, and talents, and discuss what we can do to support pro-parent, pro-transparency, pro-teacher policies, efforts, and board members. We support certain candidates for public office who understand the situation our local community is facing, and who are eager to shift from the old ways of running things to something better for everyone.
When parents are full partners in the education of their own children, everyone gains. Obstacles to the full inclusion of parents and their ideas, concerns and talents must be examined and addressed.
We believe when parents are respected and honored, public schools will improve in climate, academic performance, student discipline and enrollment. Where you see decline in those factors, it's likely the parents are not being held in high esteem at the highest levels of the school district.
Help Teachers Love Teaching Again
Statewide, public school teachers are being expected to shift from the basics and spend class time on the latest fads and programs. (Similar to the failed self-esteem movement, aka "social promotion" in the 1990s.) These distractions from learning are often driven by vendors, and are changing the teaching profession. Without demonstrably positive effects on the academic achievement of our children, we should be asking questions of our school district leaders.
Meanwhile, we are increasingly aware of struggles in the classroom - and in the hallways - related to behavior of students. The "panacea solutions" don't seem to be working, and teachers by-and-large know it.
These factors are expediting teacher burnout.
The solutions to these problems are not rocket science. They are quite simple, actually. All it takes is getting away from the status quo to see this. Join us!
Parents United For Freedom stands beside, and in support of, diligent, appropriate, academically-focused teachers who totally respect the parent-child relationship, and understand the importance of including parents in education.