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Flunking the Test, Passing the Vibe Check: Texas Welcomes Conservative College Entrance Exam That Can’t Predict College Success

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:13:02 +0000

Texas higher education officials have officially decided that predictive data is wildly overrated. Higher Education Commissioner Wynn Rosser signaled to university leaders that public campuses can immediately start using the conservative-favored Classic Learning Test (CLT) for admissions decisions outside the automatic top-10% rule, with plans to fully cement it into state rules by fall 2028. [...]

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Texas Threatens to Strip Teacher Pay Raises Unless National Credential Group Scrubs ‘DEI’

lubbock-sucks — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:02:38 +0000

Great news, Texas taxpayers! State officials have finally identified the real crisis threatening our schools: highly qualified teachers receiving modest bonuses for helping kids learn. The State Board for Educator Certification voted to demand that the National Board Certification program scrub all mentions of diversity, equity, and inclusion from its training materials by November 2. [...]

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State Leaders Demand 3% Budget Cut Because Apparently a $24 Billion Surplus Just Isn’t Enough

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:06:43 +0000

Our very own local golden boy, House Speaker Dustin Burrows, has teamed up with Governor Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to demand a mandatory 3% budget haircut for state agencies, appellate courts, and public universities. Why? Because according to Abbott, nothing says “putting families first” quite like making sure state services operate under [...]

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Welcome to Texas Tech, Where “Systemic” is a Dirty Word and Reality is Optional

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:59:00 +0000

Texas Tech’s brand-new Chancellor, Brandon Creighton, has apparently decided that college students are far too fragile to hear about scary concepts like race, gender, or sexual orientation. Naturally, he issued a couple of memos scrubbing these topics from academic programs and undergraduate core courses. Now, two faculty groups are dragging the university system to federal [...]

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Charles Perry Terrified That Lubbock Students Might Accidentally Read a Book

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:20:51 +0000

Our heroic State Senator Charles Perry recently graced a Lubbock ISD board meeting to save our youth from the ultimate threat to West Texas society: paper pages bound together by glue. Perry stormed the trustee meeting to wave around excerpts of a “trash” book he refused to name publicly—because giving credit to the author would [...]

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LISD Solves Massive Deficit with Corporate Buzzwords and a Whole 2% Teacher Raise

lubbock-sucks — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:34:40 +0000

Our visionary leaders at the Lubbock ISD Board of Trustees met on June 25 to approve a brand new $260 million budget that is, in classic government fashion, staring down a massive, gaping deficit. But don’t panic, folks! LISD CFO Dr. Dewayne Wilkins cleared things right up by explaining that this financial dumpster fire didn’t [...]

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Texas Burns $8.4 Million Fixing Holy Textbooks That Are Literally Falling Apart, Because Fiscal Responsibility Is For Losers

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:05:08 +0000

God bless the Lone Star State, where our righteous state leaders love to lecture local school districts about “reckless spending” and poor planning while casually setting $8.4 million of our taxpayer dollars on fire. The Texas Education Agency successfully developed a new elementary curriculum called “Bluebonnet Learning” that managed to rack up a whopping 4,200 [...]

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Texas Board of Education Proves Once Again That Reality Is Merely A Suggestion

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:55:52 +0000

The Texas State Board of Education just gave preliminary approval to a brand-new curriculum guaranteed to make our public schools the laughingstock of the modern world. Under the guise of “social studies and reading,” the board is pushing a new list that mandates Bible stories for children as young as six. Because nothing says “ready [...]

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Desperate for Cash, Shallowater ISD Will Let Outside Kids Transfer In—Assuming They Pass the “Shallowater Way” Vibe Check

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:24:24 +0000

Well, well, well. Look who comes crawling back to the open market. For the first time in over a decade, Shallowater ISD is graciously opening its golden gates to out-of-district transfer students. Why the sudden burst of inclusivity? It certainly isn’t out of the goodness of their hearts. The district lost more than 60 students [...]

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Texas Charter Schools Headed for a Cliff After Realizing You Need Actual Children to Maintain Enrollment

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:22:29 +0000

For three decades, Texas has treated charter schools like the golden child of education, gleefully watching them siphon students from traditional public schools. But the glorious, unregulated party might finally be over. Demography experts are warning that our beloved charters are officially “headed to a cliff” within five years because enrollment growth just plummeted to [...]

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It Takes a Village to Ignore Abuse at Frenship ISD

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:02:09 +0000

In what might be the most disturbing display of synchronized apathy in Lubbock county this year, former Frenship special education aide T’nae Harrell was arrested for voyeurism. According to police, Harrell decided it was a great idea to lift up a 7-year-old student’s shirt in the middle of class, turn her toward another staff member, [...]

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Texas Tech Replaces Academic Freedom With AI Censorship, Wonders Why Faculty Are Fleeing Lubbock

lubbock-sucks — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:21:27 +0000

Just when you thought higher education in the Hub City couldn’t get any more embarrassing, Texas Tech’s administration has managed to turn curriculum oversight into a dystopian comedy. According to a recent Faculty Senate survey, nearly half of the responding professors have had to alter their courses to comply with Chancellor Brandon Creighton’s sweeping war [...]

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Awkward: John Cornyn Comes to Lubbock for a Photo-Op, Leaves with a Dagger in His Back

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:31:23 +0000

U.S. Senator John Cornyn rolled into West Texas on Tuesday for what should have been an easy day of political theater: standing around at the Reese National Security Complex, nodding solemnly about “cybersecurity,” and helping Texas Tech break ground on its new Critical Infrastructure Security Site. Local bigwigs like Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows and [...]

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Texas Leaders Scramble to Protect Our Kids from the Dangers of “Accomplished Teaching”

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:52:00 +0000

National Board Certification—the “gold standard” of teaching that’s reportedly harder to get than a Master’s degree—is currently on the chopping block in Austin. Why? Because it turns out being an “accomplished teacher” involves things like “self-reflection” and “not traumatizing children,” which apparently doesn’t sit well with the Texas brand. Our brilliant state leaders are worried [...]

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Frenship Aide Thought a 7-Year-Old’s Body Was Apparently Up for Discussion

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:27:17 +0000

A former Legacy Elementary special education aide has been fired, arrested, and charged with voyeurism after making lewd comments about a seven-year-old student’s chest — then physically exposing the child to another staff member, apparently just to drive the point home. The April 29 incident was witnessed by four colleagues and caught on classroom security [...]

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Tech Drops $3.5M on a Fraudster’s Fixer-Upper (Because Market Value is for Poor People)

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:10:56 +0000

In a move that surprises absolutely no one familiar with how money vanishes in this town, the Texas Tech University System recently confirmed they dropped a cool $3.5 million on Bart Reagor’s old mansion on 19th Street. You remember Bart, right? The guy currently trading his signature “Let’s Roll” catchphrase for a taxpayer-funded bunk in [...]

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Paxton Plays Hallway Monitor: LISD Investigated for Not Being “Churchy” Enough

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:07:23 +0000

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a man who knows a thing or two about being under investigation himself, has decided to spend his time auditing the interior decor of Lubbock ISD. Paxton is “investigating” whether our local schools are complying with Senate Bill 10, the high-priority law that ensures every child has a convenient stone-tablet [...]

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RIP Thinking: Tech Students Hold Funeral for Academic Freedom While Board of Regents Plays Undertaker

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:00:44 +0000

Yesterday, Texas Tech students traded their “Guns Up” for “Heads Down” as they staged a literal funeral for academic freedom. Nothing says “I’m getting a world-class education” quite like a horse-drawn carriage hauling an urn and some censored books across campus while the Board of Regents watches from the safety of their tax-funded air conditioning. [...]

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Shhh, Don’t Tell the Grads: Texas Tech Implements ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Research’ Policy

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:28:08 +0000

Welcome back to another episode of higher education theater here in the Hub City. Our beloved Texas Tech University System Chancellor, Brandon Creighton, recently dropped a memo outright banning all future graduate theses, dissertations, and projects centering on sexual orientation or gender identity—because god forbid a research university actually lets people research things. But the [...]

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R.I.P. Thinking: Texas Tech Students Dust Off Their Goth Gear for an Academic Freedom Funeral

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:09:30 +0000

Oh look, Texas Tech is making national headlines again, and for once, it doesn’t involve couch-burning or a sports scandal. This Thursday, student groups Raiders Against Censorship and Students Engaged in Advancing Texas are trading in their standard university gear for straight-up Victorian mourning attire. They are staging a full-blown, horse-drawn mock funeral on campus [...]

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Clean Title, Dirty Deals: How Texas Tech and the Feds Scrubbed Bart Reagor’s Mansion for the Chancellor

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:15:33 +0000

Remember last month when we told you the Texas Tech University System dropped millions on a new 19th Street mansion for Chancellor Brandon Creighton, courtesy of Lubbock’s most famous federal inmate, Bart Reagor? Well, it turns out getting a state university into the master bedroom of a convicted bank fraudster requires the kind of bureaucratic [...]

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UNT Proves That Education Is Much Cheaper When You Stop Paying Educators

lubbock-sucks — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:39:46 +0000

In a move that surely has the bean-counters at Texas Tech salivating with envy, the University of North Texas has decided to fix its massive $45 million budget hole by simply paying its smartest people to go away. UNT just approved buyouts for 40 faculty members, saving a whopping $4.7 million—which, if you’re doing the [...]

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Raider Power? More Like Raider-Hush: Texas Tech Rebrands as a Very Expensive Trade School

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:48:06 +0000

In a move that surprised absolutely no one who has spent more than five minutes in West Texas, the Texas Tech Board of Regents has decided that the “university” part of Texas Tech University was getting a little too trendy. Following the lead of Chancellor Brandon Creighton—the man who literally wrote the state law he’s [...]

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From Ponzi to Ph.D.: Texas Tech Buys Convicted Fraudster’s Mansion for Chancellor

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:13:00 +0000

Because living in a regular house is apparently beneath the dignity of someone “leading” our beloved institution, the Texas Tech University System just dropped a few million on a new official residence. And in a move that surprises absolutely nobody who has spent more than five minutes in this dust bowl, they bought it from [...]

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Texas Discovers the Secret to Better Education: Giving Your Tax Dollars to Private Schools

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:29:02 +0000

The Texas Comptroller just started mailing out the educational equivalent of Willy Wonka’s Golden Tickets, and Governor Abbott is already taking a victory lap like he just solved literacy. Around 42,600 kids in the “first priority tier” are being awarded Texas Education Freedom Accounts, which is a fancy, focus-grouped way of saying the state is [...]

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Tech Leisure Pool Stays Dry: A Masterclass in Paying for Things You Can’t Use

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:15:30 +0000

Just when you thought you might actually escape the West Texas heat without developing a permanent layer of grit on your skin, Texas Tech has some “great” news. The Leisure Pool—that glorious oasis of student fees and questionable tan lines—is keeping its gates locked. It was supposed to open mid-April, but apparently, “maintenance” is the [...]

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Local Man Writes Laws, Hires Self to Enforce Them, Claims He’s Saving the ‘Tech Brand’ from Reality

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:16:04 +0000

In the most “Lubbock” move since the last time we paved a road only to dig it up a week later, Texas Tech Chancellor Brandon Creighton is doing a victory lap for a problem he personally manufactured. For those keeping track of the grift, Creighton spent his time in the State Senate writing the very [...]

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Texas Tech Chancellor Promises “Efficiency” is the Only Reason He’s Deleting Your Identity

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:04:24 +0000

Our very own Chancellor Brandon Creighton—a man who apparently loved the censorship bill he wrote as a Senator so much that he moved into the Texas Tech System just to make sure the “Delete” key stayed warm—is back in the news. He’s currently doing a victory lap for his new course guidelines, which have successfully [...]

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New Home ISD Discovers “Life Skills” Includes Navigating a 60-Mile Daily Commute; Feds Unimpressed

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:37:19 +0000

Nothing says “Small Town Texas Pride” quite like the federal government showing up at your door with a clipboard and a list of Civil Rights violations. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has officially opened an investigation into New Home ISD because, apparently, “Special Education” isn’t supposed to mean “shipping four-year-olds 30 [...]

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Texas Tech Law: Where “Vibes” Are Illegal and Racial Slurs Are Just “Irrelevant” Background Noise

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:41:13 +0000

Welcome to the Texas Tech School of Law, where we’re training the next generation of legal minds to be as delicate as a West Texas tumbleweed in a hailstorm. Meet Ellen “Ellie” Fisher, a third-year student who is currently suing the university because she dared to have an unauthorized emotion in public. Apparently, being “loud, [...]

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Texas Tech Achieves Peak Innovation by Deleting Decades of Social Progress with a Bot

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:59:34 +0000

Chancellor Brandon Creighton (our favorite former state lawmaker turned academic overlord) has finally solved the biggest crisis facing West Texas: the existence of Women’s and Gender Studies. In a memo that screams “I didn’t actually enjoy my elective credits,” Creighton ordered the Texas Tech System to phase out any program “centered on” sexual orientation or [...]

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Texas SBOE Solves Literacy Crisis by Deleting Frederick Douglass and Doubling Down on Sunday School

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:46:25 +0000

In a move that surprised absolutely no one who has spent more than five minutes in this state, the Texas State Board of Education just gave preliminary approval to a mandatory reading list for 2030. Because if there’s one thing Texas schools are famous for, it’s our love of “mandatory” things—unless it’s masks, vaccines, or [...]

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Shallowater Band Director Moves Up from Local Creep to Federal Felon

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:43:27 +0000

Just when you thought Shallowater’s reputation for “family values” couldn’t get any more tarnished, Joseph Macaulay Gonzalez has managed to level up. Our favorite 27-year-old former assistant band director isn’t just a local disappointment anymore; he’s now officially a federal problem. On April 8, a grand jury decided that his extracurricular activities deserved more than [...]

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Texas Politicians Brave Enough to Fight a Scary 2% of the Population

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:37:19 +0000

Our fearless leaders in Austin have finally identified the greatest threat to the Lone Star State, and no, it’s not the crumbling power grid or the fact that it’s 95 degrees in April. According to a recent Texas Tribune chat with State Representative Salman Bhojani—one of the first two Muslims ever elected to the state [...]

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Texas’ New Anti-Woke Police Are Taking Snitch Reports via the “Trust Me, Bro” Method

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:25:43 +0000

Welcome to the latest installment of “Texas Government: Making It Up As We Go.” Our glorious state leaders decided we needed a new watchdog—the Office of the Ombudsman—to ensure pesky universities like Texas Tech aren’t accidentally teaching students empathy or, god forbid, diversity. This office is the ultimate arbiter of what counts as “too liberal,” [...]

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Levelland ISD’s “Employee of the Month” Trades the Classroom for a 60-Year Residency in Federal Prison

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:40:14 +0000

Ah, Levelland. The crown jewel of the South Plains, where the horizon is flat, the wind is relentless, and the local school district apparently uses a “vibe check” instead of a rigorous background search. Meet Camilo Reyes Castillo, a former teacher’s aide who just managed to secure a 720-month stay in the big house. That’s [...]

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Frenship ISD’s Latest Extracurricular: 5th Grade Teacher Traded the Classroom for a Jail Cell

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:47:05 +0000

Well, Lubbock, it’s time for our favorite local pastime: reading a press release from a school district that’s sweating through its polo shirt. Nicholas Alonzo, a 29-year-old who was supposedly trusted to teach fifth graders at Upland Heights Elementary, decided to spend his Spring Break getting cozy with the Lubbock Police Department. He wasn’t there [...]

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Human Frogger: Quaker Avenue Edition

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:19:27 +0000

In today’s episode of “Lubbock Drivers vs. Basic Physics,” a middle schooler from McCool Academy tried the radical experiment of using a designated crosswalk at 31st and Quaker. Unsurprisingly, a local motorist—likely distracted by a stray tumbleweed or the existential dread of being on Quaker Avenue at 8:00 a.m.—decided the crosswalk was more of a [...]

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Burned Cheerleaders Get the Cold Shoulder: LISD Escapes Lawsuit for ‘Brutal’ Track Torture

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:23:11 +0000

Remember back in late 2024 when an Evans Middle School coach decided the best way to instill “team spirit” was to force a group of middle schoolers to bear crawl and crab walk for a mile on a track that was literally 125 degrees? You know, the kind of temperature where you can fry an [...]

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Shallowater Band Director Proves “Remind” App Is Great for Networking—And Felonies

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:48:17 +0000

Well, folks, pack up the tubas and cancel the halftime show, because Shallowater ISD has managed to make local headlines for something other than a state championship. Joseph Gonzalez, a 27-year-old assistant band director who clearly treated the “Professional Standards” section of his employee handbook as a suggestion rather than a rule, is currently enjoying [...]

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The “School Choice” Trap: Texas Invents a New Way to Screw Over Kids with Disabilities

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:17:26 +0000

Leave it to the geniuses in Austin to design a “freedom-based” school voucher program that’s actually just an administrative colonoscopy for parents of kids with disabilities. The state is finally rolling out its shiny new voucher system, offering a cool $10,500 for private school tuition. But if your kid has a disability, you’re eligible for [...]

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Breaking: LISD Finally Protects Our Kids from the Dangers of Literacy

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:56:45 +0000

Welcome to the Hub City, where we’re so bored with the dust and the potholes that we’ve decided to treat our school libraries like an episode of Survivor. Thanks to Texas Senate Bill 13, Lubbock ISD is officially “revising” how it handles book challenges. Translation: We’ve handed a “Delete” button to anyone in the zip [...]

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Ghost Towns & Empty Desks: Texas Public Schools are Trending Downward (But Hey, More Room for Parking?)

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:52:45 +0000

So, the latest data from the nerds over at Texas 2036 is in, and it turns out Texas public schools are currently about as popular as a July afternoon without air conditioning. For only the second time in recent history, statewide enrollment has dipped below 5.5 million students. We’re looking at a 1.4% drop—the biggest [...]

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Texas Discovers That Rich Kids Also Enjoy Free Money

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:26:58 +0000

Well, color me shocked. The latest data for Texas’ shiny new “Education Freedom Accounts” is in, and it turns out that “freedom” mostly means the freedom for people already paying for private school to stick the rest of us with the bill. Of the 160,000 families who’ve applied for these vouchers so far, a staggering [...]

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Tech Swaps “Woke” for Robots: Chancellor Creighton Spends $25M to Turn Lubbock into an “AI Factory”

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:33:40 +0000

Hold onto your hats, Lubbock. Our very own Chancellor Brandon Creighton—the man who spent his legislative career heroically “saving” us from the existential threat of DEI—has found a new shiny object to distract us from the fact that we still can’t figure out how to pave 34th Street. He’s dropping $25 million of Texas Tech’s [...]

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Lubbock ISD Refuses to Make Prayer Mandatory

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:33:20 +0000

In a shocking display of common sense that must have left local pearl-clutchers gasping for air, the Lubbock ISD Board of Trustees voted unanimously against designating a specific “prayer period” during the school day. While new state legislation essentially gave them a hall pass to turn the lunch hour into a revival tent, the board [...]

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Tech Regents Spend Five Hours Playing ‘I Spy’ With Real Estate Instead of Doing Their Jobs

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:03:41 +0000

Lubbock’s favorite higher-ed circus, the Texas Tech University System, just held its big Board of Regents meeting in Dallas—conveniently 350 miles away from the students and faculty actually dealing with the fallout of Chancellor Brandon Creighton’s “war on feelings”. While everyone expected the board to finally clarify which books haven’t been banned yet, the regents [...]

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Chancellor Creighton Discovers the Best Way to Lead Lubbock is From 300 Miles Away

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:29:11 +0000

In a move that surprises absolutely no one who has ever spent a Tuesday in February staring at a tumbleweed, the Texas Tech University System Board of Regents has decided that Lubbock simply isn’t big enough for their egos this week. For the first time ever, the board is dragging their meeting all the way [...]

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Texas Tech Achieves National Top 5 Status in ‘Most Likely to be Ignored by Their Own Bosses’

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:53:06 +0000

Well, break out the Dr. Thunder and some overpriced tapas, because Texas Tech is finally in the Top 5 of something that isn’t “Most Chlamydia Cases per Capita” or “Most Dust Storms Survived by a Single Corolla.” According to the Fulbright Association’s 2025 numbers, TTU is tied for 5th in the nation for the highest [...]

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New Home ISD Rebrands “Inclusion” as a 60-Mile Daily Commute to Somewhere Else

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:34:15 +0000

New Home ISD has officially decided that its Special Education students are more like cargo than community members. On February 9, the Board of Trustees voted to shutter the local Life Skills classroom and “shuttle” the five affected students to O’Donnell ISD—a lovely 30-mile trek one way. The district claims this is just a return [...]

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