Board president Victor Perez and trustees Rebecca Fox, Morgan Calhoun and Amy Thieme at Monday night's board.On Monday, the Katy Board of Trustees voted to approve a resolution that blocked enforcing a law that would have allowed the district to hire or permit chaplains to volunteer in religious capacities.
According to Thieme, while teaching the district, assuming the role of a chaplain helped her instruct her students who were struggling to learn math. She said that she never once inappropriately shared her religious beliefs. “I believe the policies and practices that we currently have serve our students in the same way that a chaplain policy per se would,” Fox said.
“It won’t be the religions of families or the faith that families embrace in their homes. You wouldn’t be able to guarantee what faith — what beliefs — and I think that a parent’s right is to teach the faith they want in their homes,” Fox said. "I want to make sure that the parents are not in any way a step behind or removed from what's going on in your child's school, where there may be potentially unintended consequences with placing an adult that establishes a private relationship or private conversation with a child," he added.
“I did see a counselor and a counselor is not a therapist,” Calhoun said. “And, although the counselor at the time, I’m sure she meant well, didn’t help.”
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