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Blind Eye Toward Domestic Terrorism?

Investigating the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol may just be the beginning of a protracted effort to root out homegrown extremists.

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The Jan. 6 raid on the U.S. Capitol is now widely seen as the biggest intelligence failure since 9/11. Federal, state, and local authorities have identified and charged more than 230 suspects in the violent insurrection that left five people dead, including one U.S. Capitol Police officer. Federal prosecutors said more than 400 investigations remain active.

A U.S. Capitol Police spokesperson recently said six officers have been suspended with pay and 29 are under investigation for potentially colluding with rioters.

Longtime CIA officer Robert Grenier recently told NPR that the United States may be facing the beginning of a long-term, violent insurrection by extremists who have been emboldened by the Trump presidency’s racist rhetoric and policies and the recent surge in misinformation surrounding the 2020 presidential election.

“I don’t want to be one to suggest that somehow the United States is going to in any way resemble Iraq or Afghanistan at the height of violence,” Grenier said. “As in any insurgency situation, you have committed insurgents who are typically a relatively

Maskless Trespassers Beware Though never a big fan of big-box retailers, I’m glad they’re stepping up now.

Walmart, Target, CVS, and Kroger are just some of the major stores requiring masks despite Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to scrub them. Hundreds of independent and small bars and restaurants are following the big boys’ lead. Already, lots of staff at these places are dealing with maskless idiots, or “maskentrottels” in German. One of my bartender buddies received a round of applause from the other customers at his work last week after bouncing two maskless ass-hats. As the owner of MASS on the Near Southside told me a week ago, none of his peers are particularly happy about Abbott forcing them to be gracious to customers while also policing them.

Businesses have the right to determine their own safety protocols, Abbott said, and, as if on cue, snowflakes began

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complaining that kicking them out for not wearing a mask is illegal. It is not.

“Private businesses enjoy property rights and may require folks to wear a mask,” tweeted Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, a leading voice on controversial issues. “Please respect their property rights. If you decline to wear a mask and are asked to leave and refuse, you may be committing the offense of criminal trespass.”

The Fort Worth police told me a business requiring masks is just like no shoes, no service.

“We will not be enforcing any mandates,” Fort Worth police said. “However, businesses have the right to refuse service. … if a business wants their customers to wear masks, they have the right to ask customers to leave for noncompliance. Any police action will be based on violations of criminal trespass laws, not on mask mandates.”

The Texas Restaurant Association is urging restaurants to maintain mask requirements and customers to mask up when not at their tables. The science is clear. In counties where states required

small proportion of the affected population, but what enables them to carry forward their program is a large number of people from whom they can draw tacit support. That’s what I’m primarily concerned with here. I think what is most important is that we drive a wedge between those violent individuals and the people who may otherwise see them as reflecting their interests and fighting on their behalf.”

The convergence of numerous right-wight groups (Proud Boys, QAnon followers, neo-Nazis, anarchists, white supremacists, and others) during the attack may reflect a broader alliance among extremist groups. One former FBI agent who currently teaches at TCU, Samuel Simon, said growing political divisions among U.S. citizens have fueled extremism on both ends of the political divide.

“I think what has been happening in the country for the last 10 to 15 years is that we’ve become far more polarized,” he said. “It’s hard to be a centrist in the United States.

I don’t see it becoming better any time soon.”

The 2020 riots in Seattle and Portland following the murder of George Floyd and the attack on the capitol demonstrate an increasing willingness on the part of certain groups to resort to violence, he said.

The proliferation of misinformation and baseless conspiracy theories has emboldened extremist groups, he continued, and many of those false narratives are propagated and promoted by Russian and Chinese government groups as a means of dividing and weakening the United States.

In 2018, the Weekly documented a group of around 20 Proud Boys who had gathered at Ye Olde Bull and Bush (“Proud Boys Crash Local Pub,” Sept. 2018). Tony Green, a Black man, described the conversations on the part of the Proud Boys as centered on “oppressing women.” The Star-Telegram documented supporters of QAnon, the discredited far-right conspiracy theory that alleges members of the Democratic Party are part of a global child sex-trafficking ring, protesting local mask mandates last summer, and the Star-T documented several North Texas residents who participated in the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol.

masks, the CDC says, case and death rates slowed. In counties where states allowed on-site restaurant dining, case and death rates sped up. The agency goes on to say that “community requirements that support mask use are associated with reduced spread.” The timing is significant. Tarrant County recently surpassed 3,000 deaths.

Unhappy placing a piece of fabric over your mouth? Go someplace else, someplace that still feels all of that “rugged Texas independence” from the snowstorm that transformed our great republic into a third-world country for a week not too long ago. Go someplace that hates science and loves a good conspiracy, go someplace Trumpy.

I haven’t been out and about a lot, but when I have, it’s been to the Near Southside, where my family likes to waltz around and eat, and North Fort Worth, where we live. Every maskless person I’ve seen or encountered since Abbott announced his dumb decision has been white. The guy who came to take a look at my sprinkler system Monday morning, the two bros in tiny T’s

leaving Flips Patio Grill on Sunday afternoon, the young man who knocked on my door to sell me solar panels Saturday morning, the always great bubbas at Fort Worth Tire, where I took my wife’s car on Friday — all white and, incidentally, all male. To connect the dots, most white males are conservative, and most conservatives bow to a certain disgraced former U.S. president and future indicted criminal who claimed the COVD-19 pandemic was a hoax and played it down as something that would just disappear miraculously one day. As a white male myself, I am deeply offended by the damage that other, maskless white males are doing to our demographic. I’m here to say not all of us hate science and that not all of us are willing to sacrifice Grandma and Grandpa purely for the sake of exposing our handsome faces to the masses. Some of us are actually acutely aware of the ravages of COVID-19. Some of us actually have a heart. — Anthony Mariani The Weekly welcomes submissions from all political persuasions. Email Editor Anthony Mariani at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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Unlike most Western countries, the United States differentiates between acts of international and domestic terrorism, Simon said. The lack of criminal penalties for committing acts of domestic terrorism severely limits law enforcement’s ability to investigate or intervene until an actual crime has occurred. Part of the reason for limiting the federal government’s ability to investigate American citizens is tied to the FBI’s history of investigating Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders for political reasons, he said.

“We are terrified to give the government the ability to say the Animal Liberation Front, anarchists, the KKK, or the new Black Panther Party” should be designated terrorist organizations, he said.

According to a 2020 report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a U.S. think tank, over the past two decades, right-wing terrorist attacks caused 335 deaths while left-wing attacks left 22 people dead. In contrast to rightwing attacks, according to the findings, left-leaning groups tend to target property rather than people.

Simon said it would be a difficult task to decide at what point a hate group becomes a terrorist organization, but, unlike the United States, most countries have no problem labeling domestic extremist groups as terrorists.

From an FBI perspective, “let us do our job,” he said. “Attach a punishment to the definition of domestic terrorism. You don’t have to redefine domestic terrorism.

If anyone knowingly or willingly violates these statutes, they should be subject to imprisonment or fines of whatever [the criminal justice system] feels is appropriate. We could start charging people as domestic terrorists” when it’s called for. l

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Simon, who headed the Fort Worth Joint Terrorism Task Force from 2005 to 2012, said law enforcement is limited when it comes to investigating domestic terrorism, and government officials are quick to identify international terrorism threats as a greater priority.

“We are afraid to turn a mirror on ourselves,” he said. “It is easier to say Al Qaeda or ISIS in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan are a far bigger threat. Timothy McVeigh, what he did was horrific,” he said, referring to the white supremacist’s 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.

Fort Worth police spokesperson Daniel Segura said his department maintains a dedicated anti-terrorism task force.

“The Homeland Security unit works with local, regional, and state departments,” he said. “When we have huge events like the Stock Show and Rodeo every year that bring around a million people every week, they monitor any local or outside threats. The program has been active for several years.”

The prolific use of social media by extremist groups allows the task force to prevent potential acts of terrorism, he added.

“With social media, we have many resources to tap into and look for keywords,” he said. “If it ties back to Fort Worth, we will look at it right away.”

Segura said the Fort Worth police department has not seen any activity that would suggest an imminent attack from any group. The task force, he said, looks for dangerous groups of all political and ideological persuasions.

“We are on the lookout for anything suspicious in Fort Worth,” he said. “We haven’t seen any increase of activity.”

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Covid Slide Local students are falling behind due to COVID-19, so what do school leaders plan to do about it?

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s news of the COVID-19 pandemic spread, many Fort Worth public school teachers began their 2020 Spring Break unsure about how the school district would handle the remainder of spring classes. When teachers did return to their respective classrooms, it was to grab their school supplies for an indefinite period of virtual learning. School district leaders urgently distributed tablets, laptops, and hotspots to children in underserved communities. After a few weeks, more than 82,000 students were equipped to finish the spring semester online.

By May, many students at OD Wyatt High School were disengaging from the school district’s online learning programs, according to an audio recording that was given to me by a confidential source.

“A lot of kids logged on and never got on again,” one teacher said.

The socioeconomic realities of the predominantly Black and Hispanic school meant that many parents were struggling to deal with lost work, a deadly pandemic, and the newfound challenges of educating children from home.

If the students “are making progress,” one teacher said, “I feel silly failing these kids when I don’t know what is going on at home.”

One OD Wyatt vice principal emphasized the challenges facing homebound students.

“Some kids answered the phone on April 10” and never answer again, the school leader said. Think about challenges “when you give a pass, fail, or incomplete,” the vice principal said. “Think about accessibility to the internet. Think about at-home support for the students. Think about additional supports they may not have. Completion or noncompletion of [the school district’s online learning programs] should not be the final determinant of the final grade. The teacher is the one who

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determines the grade. Make sure that you are keeping all of this in mind as you give grades to your students.”

OD Wyatt principal Howard Robinson repeatedly told his teachers to show “grace over grades.”

He said, “I’m not saying to give anything away. There will be some who have done nothing.”

Three former or current OD Wyatt teachers, including the one who provided the recording, said that Robinson implicitly and explicitly told teachers to alter grades (including from fall of 2019) irrespective of the student’s efforts to log onto the online learning program.

In the recording, a teacher asked for guidance on how to grade students who did nothing.

Robinson reminded the teacher that other teachers were “grading with grace,” adding that “if the kid gets a failing grade, we are doing them an injustice. We are not using the same mindset as when kids came to us every day from period to period. Onethird of kids are working 15 hours online per week. We take that into consideration.”

Sensing resistance from a different teacher during that same recorded meeting, Robinson stated his intentions.

“You are doing a disservice to these students by having a high failure rate,” he told the group of teachers. “I’m asking you to grade with grace. This is a different day and age. If you don’t have documentation that you tried to contact [every parent], we are going to ask you to change the grades.

How is it fair to give a failing grade? If you do not have documentation that you talked to someone, then [the grades] won’t stand.

If you have a high fail rate, that’s on you.”

If you could bump the student’s grade up to a 55%, that would bump him to a 70% for the semester, one OD Wyatt vice principal suggested during the recording.

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grades were ultimately changed without her permission. Questions forwarded to Robinson through the school district were not returned.

Fort Worth school board trustee Ashley Paz said, “Things have changed so drastically that the definition of what ‘failing’ looks like is very different than a year ago.

“Everyone, regardless of race, class, or economic status, is in survival mode,” she continued. “Adults are managing unprecedented levels of stress and trauma from struggling to maintain jobs, keep businesses alive, social isolation, losing loved ones, and even dealing with the long-term health effects of COVID itself.

We would be remiss to believe that our children aren’t affected by these things as well. They are as much in survival mode as the rest of us, and while we still have to maintain high expectations for our kids and not allow COVID to become an excuse, we also have to understand that progress in learning is progress.”

ZIP codes served by OD Wyatt, she continued, are among the hardest impacted by the digital divide in Texas. Robinson, Paz continued, is “correct and proper” in the guidance that he issued to educators in extending grace to their students.

“By the same token, teachers were to receive a great deal of grace in their instructional evaluations given the complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity of the environment at that time,” Paz said.

“The whole point was to take the focus

off of grades so that they could instead do everything possible to keep students engaged in any type of learning. The biggest risk during this time was that of losing students” who then might drop out of school altogether.

Faced with ongoing societal disruptions related to COVID-19 and a segment of the population that is opting not to return to classrooms, school districts across the country are reevaluating how students are graded and how certain academic benchmarks are met. The Fort Worth school district’s Grade/Credit Recovery and Attendance Restoration policy has the stated goal of “ensuring fair and consistent opportunities for all students.”

When the everyday lives of students are fundamentally disrupted over an extended period of time, due to circumstances out of their control, it’s necessary that the district review and make temporary adjustments to existing local policy and guidance to ensure all students are positioned for success, the policy reads.

Under the new guidelines, which were issued on Jan. 13, students in grades 1 through 12 who did not earn a 70% through the “completion of assignments/ tests” have the opportunity to redo assignments and tests in which a grade of 70% was not earned. Students who did not meet attendance requirements can have that requirement fulfilled by retaking failed tests.

Even with the flexibility provided by the Fort Worth school district’s new

The COVID-19 pandemic forced public schools, colleges, and universities to rethink or overhaul longstanding guidelines and practices. In a move that may boost student body diversity at Texas universities, Texas A&M University, the University of Texas at Austin, and other higher education institutions in the Lone Star State temporarily shelved SAT and ACT admission requirements. With test sites shuttered throughout last summer and the general chaos surrounding the pandemic, leaders at post-secondary institutions saw the move as necessary and fair.

Early into the pandemic, the Texas Education Agency (TEA), the governing body of public schools, canceled the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STARR) test through June of 2020. In July, Gov. Greg Abbott waived the state requirement that students in grades 5

and 8 pass the STARR test to respectively graduate to middle and high schools.

Speaking on the waiver, House Speaker Dennis Bonnen said, “During a time of great uncertainty, one thing is indisputable — we cannot allow an entire generation of Texas students to be disadvantaged by the unprecedented disruptions this pandemic has caused in our education system. Not only will this approach do a great deal to reduce the ‘high-stakes’ burden of testing in a school year already complicated by this pandemic, it will hold schools accountable for providing a high-quality education while equipping teachers and parents with the information they need to make certain students are learning and remain on the path to educational success.”

The nonpartisan policy institute Center for American Progress is calling for a national reevaluation of the of role standardized testing during a largely uncontrolled pandemic that has caused more than 500,000 deaths in the United States.

“Parents, educators, administrators, and policymakers need more information about how students are doing and being served, not less,” the institute wrote in September. “These data need to capture multiple aspects of student well-being, including social-emotional needs, engagement, and conditions for learning

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grading guidelines, the teacher who gave me the audio recording and was employed at OD Wyatt during the 2020 spring and fall semesters said school administrators pressured teachers to fudge grades rather than have students retake tests and courses.

“You should hold the student responsible and not do them favors,” the confidential source said.

Trustee Ashley Paz said recovering from the COVID slide may require extended school days with remedial support, after-school programming, mental health support, and other resources.

so that families, educators, and local and state leaders can be responsive to the needs of all students.”

Annual assessments should not be waived, the article said, but standardized tests should provide “actionable

information for administrators and policymakers who need these data to allocate resources that will support educational recovery.”

As many educational groups have warned, setbacks caused by COVID-19 have disproportionately hurt minority communities.

“Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and lowincome students disproportionately lacked access to opportunity and high-quality instruction even before COVID-19 hit,” the Center for American Progress found.

“Now, in the midst of the pandemic, they are more likely to experience the stressful impacts of the coronavirus outbreak and the economic recession it has helped to create. For example, parents of these students are far more likely to work in ‘essential’ positions, meaning that they cannot work from home and support their children’s learning. Students of color and low-income students are also more likely to feel the effects of lost income due to their parents’ job loss. Finally, they are more likely to experience the trauma of losing a loved one to the coronavirus.”

Child Trends, a research organization focused on improving the lives of children and youth, found that 29% of Latinx and 31% of Black households with children experienced three or more economic and/or health-related hardships as the

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result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Examples of hardships found in the study include unemployment, difficulty paying expenses, food insecurity, physical health problems, and symptoms of anxiety or depression, among others. Those hardships would have hit Fort Worth public-school families especially hard, given the district’s student demographics: 63% Latinx, 22% Black, and 11% white.

“A range of structural inequities and systemic barriers make it much more likely that Hispanic and Black families will experience not just a single, temporary stressor but an accumulation of multiple hardships — particularly during a period of economic instability like the COVID-19 pandemic,” Child Trends found. “Even among those with the same job, significant wage gaps rooted in discrimination mean that Hispanic and Black workers, on average, take home less money than white and Asian workers, making it more difficult to keep up with household expenses, including food and housing costs.

Discrimination contributes to the tendency for Hispanic and Black individuals to receive less and lower-quality physical and mental health treatment and to experience greater barriers to accessing social safety net services.”

The research-based nonprofit NWEA found that, across the country in 2020, students in grades 3 to 8 performed similarly to same-grade students the year prior but around 5 to 10% lower in math. The slide may be even more pronounced among minority groups. Student groups that are especially vulnerable to the impacts of the pandemic are “more likely to be missing from” the data, the nonprofit found.

The lack of access to the internet, known as the digital divide, has compounded educational inequities in Fort Worth and across much of the country. During the early weeks of the pandemic in March and April, school leadership focused on providing Wi-Fi hotspots to underserved communities that did not have access to the internet. The nonprofit think tank Rand Corporation found that “30% of teachers in highpoverty schools reported that all or nearly all of their students had access to the internet at home, compared with 83% of teachers in low-poverty schools.”

Paz said that hesitation from Mayor Betsy Price and County Judge Glen Whitley added confusion to an already chaotic situation in March and April.

“At this time, we were in the beginning of a global crisis where districts received little to no support or expectations for timelines as to how long we would or could be closed,” she said. “The county and city did not want the district to make the call to move to online instruction for a

An OD Wyatt teacher who asked not to be named said Robinson implicitly and explicitly told teachers to alter grades (including from fall of 2019) irrespective of the student’s efforts to log onto the online learning program.

definite amount of time. This left us with a lot of uncertainty and an inability to plan for the long term. This meant that many students were without devices, internet, or comprehensive instruction.”

No district was prepared to deploy technology to all of their students in such a short timeframe last year, said Steven Poole, executive director at the teacher union United Educators Association.

“Every school district, including Fort Worth’s, was scrambling to find tablets and hotspots,” he said. “There was a limited supply. That hamstrung school district from the get-go. Teachers saw four or five siblings having to share one computer or hotspot. For those families, the scheduling involved was a nightmare. Parents did their best to have that homeschool experience while they are trying to work themselves.”

The disparities in access to the internet are no longer acceptable, Poole said.

“If we are going to say that internet access is a vital part of work and school, then it should become a public commodity and not a private utility,” he said.

Abbott has made expanding access to broadband internet a top priority of the ongoing state legislative session.

In response to the COVID slide, the Dallas school district leadership lowered academic goals across several metrics in November. The Dallas school district used the Measurement of Academic Progress (MAP) test to determine that 30% of Dallas public school students lost learning in reading and 50% of students lost learning in math. The MAP test also

found stark disparities between minority and white students. Black students “met grade level” requirements in math 7.5% of the time in fourth grade compared with 42% of white students meeting that fourthgrade benchmark.

School district trustees across the country set benchmarks for their campuses.

In November, Dallas school district board members voted to lower standing benchmarks (measured by STARR scores) by several percentage points. One example: Trustees initially set the goal of having 44% of third graders meeting grade-level expectations for the math portion of the STARR test. That percentage has been lowered to 26%, according to reporting by the Dallas Morning News.

When asked how Fort Worth school district plans to address the so-called COVID slide, a spokesperson said, “We have already initiated a new literacy intervention program and will be doing the same for math. Plans to assist students with ‘catch up’ will roll out late spring, summer, and fall 2021.”

I requested 2020 MAP figures from the Fort Worth school district but received data only from 2019.

Combating the so-called COVID slide may take years, Poole said.

Last year was “a tough year for teachers,” he continued. “Teachers realized that it was a tough year for parents and students, too. Switching from in-person to virtual in the spring was a monumental

task, and that [struggle] continued through this school year.”

Poole said his union, which represents the majority of North Texas public school teachers, is advocating for teachers to be added to the state’s priority list for COVID-19 vaccinations — something the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) already recommends.

“We need to normalize our schools as much as possible,” he said, referring to the need to combat the pandemic. “When more of our staff can get back to in-person instruction, that would mean that more students can come back. That in-person setting is best, but it will take a state and federal effort to make that happen.”

At the urging of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Texas Department of State Health Services leadership recently announced that Texas teachers and childcare workers are now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

The change in state policy follows urgent calls from the Biden administration to prioritize teachers and school staff for the inoculation.

In a step that has worried public health officials across the state, Abbott has rescinded the state’s mask mandate just as tens of thousands of public school teachers are eligible to sign up for the potentially life-saving vaccine.

“Abbott has shirked his responsibility to stick with medical advice and clarify what needs to happen to keep our schools safe,” said Zeph Capo, president of the Texas American Federation of Teachers, in a statement last week. “Every top

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entities and partner agencies are working collaboratively to provide mental health support, employment services, technology infrastructure, safe communities, safe and healthy campuses, and out-of-school time are the ones best positioned to overcome learning losses. This is where the politics of COVID becomes an issue because as we have seen in Tarrant County, Fort Worth, and Fort Worth ISD, that collaboration is not necessarily happening. We have a mayor who is calling the shots for multiple entities where she has no accountability or authority. Political aspirations appear to be getting in the way of that muchneeded collaboration. Unfortunately, it is our students who are paying the price. It’s shameful.”

Paz said recovering from the COVID slide may require extended school days with remedial support, after-school programming, mental health support, and other resources.

We may need to “extend the school year, which I know would not be a popular decision,” she said. “Hard decisions have to be made in the best interest of educating students.”

The confidential source who provided the OD Wyatt recordings said they are now in the possession of TEA authorities.

Without clear directives from Fort Worth school board members on how to handle grading of delinquent students, she resisted pressure from Robinson and OD Wyatt administrators to give students passing grades that were not earned.

These students “will go through college without knowing how to read and write,” she said. Robinson “is doing this to make the numbers look good for him.” l

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Zeph Capo, president of the Texas American Federation of Teachers, said in a statement last week, “Every top health official has stressed that even with vaccinations we need to keep using the [simplest] tools to stop the spread.”

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health official has stressed that even with vaccinations, we need to keep using the [simplest] tools to stop the spread.”

A Fort Worth school district spokesperson said in an email that “absent any new guidance from the Texas Education Agency, all current Fort Worth COVID-19 practices will remain in effect,” which includes mandatory mask wearing by students and school staff.

During a Fort Worth school board meeting in January, trustees and district staff discussed the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on past and future learning.

Associate Superintendent Sara Arispe told school board members and staff that students have lost learning time due to the spring closure and internet access challenges.

“You’ll remember the possible learning loss due” to COVID-19, she said.

“We have seen this play out. We have found that our students do have some learning loss in reading and more extensive” losses in mathematics.

At multiple points during the meeting, district staff acknowledged that the pass/ fail/incomplete grading system that was retroactively applied to Feb. 17, 2020, and ended Sept. 8 softened the appearance of academic regression.

One slide that Arispe presented to the board showed that the percentage of freshmen who failed at least one core course at the end of the second six weeks of 2019 increased compared to the same period in 2020: respectively from 34.3% to 45.6%.

Chief Academic Officer Jerry Moore said regaining lost learning will require “multiple years.”

Poole said the district did everything it could reasonably be expected to, given the unforeseen events that unfolded in March.

“The district hustled to get that technology out there,” he said. “Students do have access to technology now, so that was a success. Teachers are working their tails off to develop curriculum for in-person and virtual learning. We are seeing groundbreaking instruction and curriculum [being used in the Fort Worth school district]. We are going to have to face this learning loss and how we are going to tackle getting these students up to speed. We are not going to get caught up in one year. This is going to be a sustained effort over multiple years.”

Paz said that recovering losses in learning will require a holistic approach that supports teachers, students, and their families.

“Every Friday, I join colleagues from big urban public school districts across the nation for a Zoom session to discuss challenges, successes, and lessons learned during this time,” Paz said.

“Cities where the multiple governmental

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TCU men’s basketball didn’t receive the exemption they probably hoped for.

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Anyone remember what it was like being a high school student? I do. Well, “remember” is probably a poor word, but I have memories of the hustle and bustle from bell to bell cramming for tests and slapping finishing touches on papers I spent too few hours crafting. In all transparency, I got an “A” in absenteeism my senior year.

Sometimes, if I didn’t feel prepared enough for a test or presentation, I’d simply call the school secretaries and assert my inability to attend. This preceded general Bueller-ish activities for the remainder of my day. The most insulting facet of my seemingly brilliant practice was the assignments didn’t simply vanish because I wanted them to or because I’d successfully dodged the due date. The damn things were always waiting for me when I finally returned to the classroom.

I’m not suggesting TCU men’s basketball were calling in sick because they wanted to or that they’d fashioned some elaborate doorbell recording to avoid some of the best teams in the Big 12 when they came knocking, but in essence that’s what happened during this extra-special COVID conference slate. Numerous quarantines didn’t shuttle the Frogs to an inflated record — quite the opposite — but they probably shielded fans from realizing the true horror of how overmatched our purple dribblers are and were this season.

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TCU center Kevin Samuel and his teammates are licking their wounds after a rough week of conference make-up games.

a final victory against Iowa State to cement a winning record. Coach Jamie Dixon’s disciples did manage to outlast the Cyclones (who won zero conference tips this season) to finish — or so we thought — at 12-10. But, just like those irritating assignments I’d ducked in high school, the makeup work came due. The conference tacked on three ranked opponents this past week. Last

Tuesday’s assignment, Texas Tech, proved a pitiful showing with the Frogs floundering against the Raiders by 20 points in their most lopsided loss since their unraveling against Oklahoma in early January.

Thursday’s spat with WVU revived a modicum of respect from this columnist as TCU battled after trailing 14 points at the half to outscore the Mountaineers

in the second, led by Jaedon Ledee (#23), who scored 20 and was obviously offended by my proclamation there isn’t a decent forward on the Frogs roster.

TCU fell by nine points, but against 6th-ranked West Virginia, that really wasn’t shameful.

To finish the season, our boys hosted 15th-ranked UT at home for one last go on Sunday. In a result that surprised no one, four-fifths of the Longhorn starting lineup finished with double-digit points, and Texas cruised to an easy 12-point victory.

TCU’s final grade before the conference tournament begins this Wednesday is now 12-13, the first losing record of Dixon’s tenure. It’s true that our Frogs would normally play more preconference games and travel to low-level tournaments to skew these numbers in a favorable direction. My counter for the aforementioned rationalization would be, and is, that our boys escaped their typical conference gauntlet despite this week’s slate of reassessment. Dixon and company faced the 3rd-ranked-Big-12champion Baylor only once and 18thranked Texas Tech once. I don’t care how many shot-glass-half-full vibes you emit or times you’ve read The Secret, those games that never were would have both been losses and likely embarrassing ones.

One guaranteed tip remains for TCU this season, against Kansas State in the first contest of the Big 12 conference tournament on Wednesday evening. KSU and TCU split games this season, Fort Worth’s warriors taking the first meeting — a seven-point win — just after the new year. The Wildcats won Part Deux with an eight-point victory in late February. The inevitable fate awaiting whichever purple-hued team wins is decimation at the paws of Baylor — who are red hot and eyeing a national championship run — the following afternoon.

The sun has set on what has been a dark season for our hardwood Horned Frogs. However, if you’re feeling especially optimistic, you’re free to throw down some cash on TCU to win the entire tournament and earn themselves an automatic bid to the big dance. You’ll make $150 for every George Washington you bet should the Toads accomplish the impossible. Alas, winning this extra-long shot gamble is the only way you’ll see Fort Worth’s finest at a notable postseason tournament, unless, of course, our players decide to drive to watch the NIT, which will be hosted for only 16 teams — with winning records — in nearby Frisco and Denton. l

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On Sat at 6:30pm, Cinnamon Creek Ranch (13794 Old Denton Rd, Roanoke, 817-439-8998) hosts a St. Pat’s edition of its ever-popular Couples by the Creek event. The celebration includes archery, axe throwing, a bonfire, cornhole, dancing, games, and a photo booth, plus a catered dinner. Tickets are $65 per person at CinnamonCreekRanch.com.

Irish Coffee World Blend Coffee (5410 Basswood Blvd, 817-788-9900) is doing it up big in a nonalcoholic way. From 6pm to 8pm on Fri, bring the kids out for an evening of St. Patrick’s Day craft making and face painting.

The event is free to attend, but bring snack money. World Blend offers various brewed and iced cappuccinos, coffees, espressos, and frappes, plus coffee alternatives like hot and iced teas, smoothies, baked goods, pastries, and sandwiches.

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At 10am on Thu, Burleson Public Library (248 SW Johnson Av, 817-426-9210) is hosting St. Patrick’s Day Story Time at the Burleson City Hall (141 W Rendro St) for your little ones to hear readings from the books A Rainbow of My Own, Good Luck Bear, and Ten Lucky Leprechauns.

The event is free to attend, but you must register at Eventbrite.com.

Run to the Hills On Sat from 6:30am to 10am, join other leprechauns (a.k.a. runners) in kilts and tutus on a course down Forest Park Boulevard and the Trinity Trails as part of the annual St. Paddy’s Day 5K Dash with the starting point of Panther Island Pavilion (395 Purcey St, 817-6980700). There will be music by DJ Dame along the course and a bit of free beer at the end. With more than $5,000 in prize money at stake, there will be some serious competition. Registration is $45 at RaceRoster.com with $5 off included for early registration thru Sat.

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While St Patrick’s Day celebrates the patron saint of Ireland, who is credited with bringing Christianity to its people, we typically commemorate his day with green beer and avoiding being pinched for some reason. There is another place for that info. Meanwhile, here are the more family-friendly events happening throughout North Texas.

Who am I? Where am I going for St. Pat’s?

Skating thru the Seasons When is the last time you put on roller skates? If you ask Arlington Skatium (5515 S Cooper St, 817-784-6222), it’s been too long. This traditional roller rink has special events throughout the year, including St. Pat’s. From 6:30pm to 9pm on Wed, Mar 17, enjoy $6 admission, $3 nachos, and $1 big-pickle specials.

Storytime with Slime From 6pm to 7:30pm (and other 1.5-hour sessions) on Wed, Mar 17, Play Street Museum (5925 Convair Dr, Ste 533, 817930-2577) — a small format children’s museum designed with creativity, exploration, and independence in mind — is hosting St. Patrick’s Day Slime & Story Time in which kiddos will hear stories and make slime and snacks to take home. Tickets are $16 per child and include one adult admission at FtWorth.

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Sweets for the Sweet Witherspoon Sweets — a home-based bakery in Haslet — is doing a St. Patrick’s Day-themed pop-up sale at 14000 Silkwood Dr on Sat at 9am until sold out. Cookie shapes include hearts, leprechaun hats, lucky horseshoes, rainbows, and shamrocks. The featured flavor is mint chocolate chip. For custom orders and more info, visit Facebook. com/WitherspoonSweets.

If boozy shenanigans are more your speed, please check out next week’s ATE DAY8 A WEEK featuring food, fun, and funky beer inside the Eats & Drinks section in print or at FWWeekly.com under Calendar.

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To all you UT alums, students, and lovers, I’m just here to say that quite a few of your boosters are snowflakes who want to turn back the clock to the ’60s — the 1860s. My advice to you and everyone else who appreciates diversity is to show your support for the Black athletes who nonviolently (sad I even have to point that out) protested the fight song this football season. Do whatever you can to let them know you got their back. Buy some Longhorn season tickets or a Longhorn cap or something. Send a tweet. And to any Black athlete considering bringing your talents to Austin, you might want to think twice. This is an institution run by a coterie of likely racist crackers who want to punish you for exercising your freedom of speech. If the eyes of anything are upon us, I’m sure they don’t like what they see.

After it was announced the Longhorn Band would not play the “Eyes of Texas” after the Baylor game,

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because the song has roots in minstrel shows and is connected to a saying by some Civil War loser, snowflake Linden R. Welsch (class of ’69) wrote UT-Austin President Jay Hartzell, saying, “You tell those ‘students’ who don’t want to play, they are out of the band and let the others play. This is the same problem you have with the football team. You have let the inmates run the asylum. You let political correctness/social justice or whatever take over and have lost control. It is stupid and demonstrates a total lack of leadership.”

Good ol’ Lindy boy was one of nearly 75 alumni and donors who threatened to pull their financial support if UT scrubbed the “Eyes of Texas.”

The snowflakes got their way. The “Eyes of Texas” isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, Hartzell reassured the precious, precious, oh-how-dear whiners.

In the meantime, Black blue chippers should strongly consider taking their skills and smarts elsewhere. Any school that still celebrates Civil War losers is no place for a young Black person, especially when so many other schools, especially HBCUs, emphasize diversity and inclusion and when so many care that racism from a time when racism was accepted is still racism. Let’s see how well an all-white Longhorn football team does against an integrated Ohio State squad or even an integrated Directional Flyover

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State U team. It goes without saying the basketball games would have to be severely handicapped.

Am I being racist? Am I saying that Blacks are genetically predisposed toward athletics? I hope not, because we all know that sports represent a meaningful way for people trapped in poverty by centuries of systemic racism to transcend their surroundings and thrive. We also know that systemic racism is what forces Black students toward athletics as a means of gaining acceptance socially and institutionally.

Anyone who has taught in a U.S. high school system, writes critic/filmmaker Charles Tonderai Mudede, knows that a “balance” — black dominance on the ballfield and white dominance in the classroom — is “strictly imposed on black males [by authority]. Intellectuality is not just discouraged but not even recognized.

When you reinforce this attitude by underfunding education, the remaining opportunities for Black success are not found in the classroom but in the gym.”

Overrepresentation of Blacks in sports is a manifestation of “a disastrous feedback loop,” Mudede continues.

“There are no black Jobs or Gates or Bezos, but there are a lot of [Kaepernicks] and Jameses. As a consequence, a position in the NBA or NFL has the appearance of being more realistic than a position

at Amazon. And the poorer you are, the more practical the impractical looks.”

Let’s be clear about one thing. People clinging to this country’s racist origins may not necessarily be racist, but they are espousing racist ideas, which is pretty much the definition of tacit racism. I’ve heard all the arguments. Everyone who lived in Texas back then had no choice but to back the gray. Grow up in a brainwashed house, become brainwashed yourself. Try to raise a family surrounded by (armed) racists (with badges), go along with racist policy. I understand that. Our problem is specific to relics of this country’s racist history, even more specifically statues, monuments, and even collegiate fight songs. What is hardly ever mentioned when we talk about them is that all of them were created/erected by pissed-off whites who wanted to reestablish their alleged superiority over a class of Black folks who had just earned their citizenship. In a country where we should be surrounded by statues of great abolitionists and Union leaders like Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, Perry Downs, and Fort Worth’s very own Anthony Bewley, we are instead inundated with Robert E. Lee and other racist losers.

Whoever said “history is written by the winners” must not have been around for the U.S. Civil War. Our winners are hardly anywhere to be seen.

There is no reason Robert E. Lee and his ilk need to be honored anywhere in these United States, a place of diverse exceptionalism that was built on the backs of slaves and continues to blossom through our working class. Our country is better with more voices, with more experiences, with more perspectives. Diversity equals dynamism, which equals enlightenment.

Anyone who goes on to defend Confederate-related statues might not be openly racist but probably harbors ideas of white exceptionalism and is to be avoided or, if related by blood or marriage, coached up. In my life, as the father of a young Black male, I would never let my son go near a campus with a fight song from our racist past. The North won the war. The slaves were freed. Blacks became citizens.

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Matt Sacks, Jorge Sierra, Robert Standlee, and Chris Tijerina will be showcased. There will also be live music by Stuart Everett — one of the featured artists — on Sat and Wayne Willingham on Sun. This event is free to attend, but bring money to #BuyArt.

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Typically known for live music, MASS (1002 S Main St, 682-707-7774) Monday also hosts special events and comedy shindigs. From 8pm to 11pm every Mon, the uproarious Claws Out Comedy show hosted by Monna features comedians Katy Evens, Miles Francis, Michelle Miller, and Holly Van Straten.

This weekly event is free to attend.

From 6pm to 7pm via zoom, attend the virtual discussion Hemingway, Thursday Gender and Identity, a preface to the upcoming three-part PBS series Hemingway directed by Ken Burns.

(The series premieres on PBS stations Mon, Apr 5, thru Wed, Apr 7. Learn more about the program at PBS/org/ Hemingway.) Register to attend this free discussion at https://bit.ly/2NloaCg.

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Texas Lottery Live — the free outdoor concert series at Texas Lottery Plaza on Friday the grounds of the Toyota Music Factory (340 W Los Colinas Blvd, Irving, 972-810-1499) — is back for 2021.

At 7pm, hear the season’s first musical guest, Irving native Alex Aguilar, playing songs from his country album Honky Tonk Love. Restaurants surround the plaza, so you can head there straight after work and order dinner on the fly.

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From 10am to 4pm SatSun, do some shopping at the 13th Annual Funky Saturday Finds Spring Fling at Will Rogers Memorial Center (3401 W Lancaster Av, 817-392-7469). This popular market features handmade and vintage items from more than 140 makers and pickers. This event is animal-friendly, so bring your pups or adopt one at the Humane Society of North Texas booth.

There will be raffles benefiting the society and CASA of Tarrant County. Bring a pet food donation to the Don’t Forget to Feed Me booth and receive one free raffle ticket per donation. Whatever your budget, you won’t leave empty-handed as attendees receive swag bags with coupons, products, and samples. This event is free to attend.

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At 7pm Fri-Sat and then at 1pm Sun, attend the Art Way to Normalcy group Sunday show featuring local artists at The Grackle Art Gallery (4621 El Campo Av, 817-615-0681). Works by Joe Badillo, Emily Cavender, Heath Cromwell, Stuart Everett, Juan Flores, Aaron Hutchinson, Aaron Hutts, Kate McClain, Trista Morris,

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On Tuesdays and Wednesdays thru Mar 17, Wednesday head to Grandscape (5752 Grandscape Blvd, The Colony, 972-668-2222) for the Red Dirt Concert Series. This afternoon, see the series’ final show featuring Mike Ryan with supporting acts Johnny Cooper and Shawn Fussell. The show is free, but VIP tickets in front of the stage are available as a four-pack for $160 ($40 per person) at Grandscape.com.

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Ken Burns’ new program Hemingway premieres on PBS Mon, Apr 5.

From 10am to 5pm today thru Fri, kids and their families can go on Tuesday a virtual adventure at Spring Break Art Extravaganza at the Kimbell Art Museum (3333 Camp Bowie Blvd, 817-332-8451) via Facebook Live.

Daily activities will feature simple guides for at-home artmaking, brief videos from guest artists and performers, and story times in English and Spanish. Free art kits are available to the first 200 families who sign up. (Pick-up only at the Kimbell.)

Reserve your art kit at KimbellArt.org/ SpringBreak.

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Ray’s Corner Store on 8th Avenue used to be the home of Ray’s Corner Store Burgers.

While I never ate there, I remember it as a bunch of molded plastic benches and tables where you could sit and eat the hamburgers and hot dogs that the store kept under heat lamps. The place now serves as the second location of Aloha Chicken and Shrimp (the first is in a gas station in Watauga), a similarly no-frills eatery with a Hawaiian theme. If the food probably won’t have the finer restaurants or even the workers

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Still, the next time I go back, I’m ordering the coconut shrimp. I’m all about the comforting richness and crunch of coconut against the sweet tender meat, and the kitchen fried this up beautifully, with curlicues of the golden-brown coco on the surface. I had it as an appetizer, but it can be part of a full dinner or a combo as well. If you crave fried shrimp on occasion, you’d do well to consider Aloha Chicken and Shrimp instead of a fried chicken place or other fast-food outlet. This convenience store will satisfy you better. l

My beef with the beef was the $14.99 price tag for the plate. I reflected that I could probably order more food of comparable quality and at half the price if I went to China Express down the street.

Then again, if you’re concerned about value, order a side of the musubi fried rice, and you’ll have more than one meal’s worth for only $5.99. Even if you’re not a big fan of Spam, the way the kitchen diced the canned meat into small cubes and then browned them on the grill made for a nice protein-filled counterpoint to the rice. I also had a reasonably priced $8.99 bowl that was half garlic shrimp, which came out properly done and not rubbery or overcooked, and chicken katsu, which

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Unlike its predecessor, the current establishment has carpeting and wood veneers on the walls, which sport some spurious Hawaiian decor. That’s pretty much it as far as atmosphere goes. There are three tables with four folding chairs apiece at them. You could probably fit six at a table if you wanted to, but would you want to?

The convenience store part of the building is easily visible from the restaurant. You could view that as a negative, or you could look at it this way: The restaurant sells no beverages, but you can choose from a huge variety of options at the store. It’s against the law to consume alcohol in the store itself, but what’s stopping you from buying a bottle of Yellow Tail wine or a case of mass-market beer and carrying it into the restaurant? The same goes for dessert, where you can purchase candy, muffins, or cookies for your after-dinner sweet.

All entrees can be ordered separately or as part of a plate, which comes with an egg roll that’s appropriately crispy (because it’s fried to order), white rice, and macaroni salad, which is an odd choice if you aren’t familiar with Hawaiians’ love of carbs covered in mayo. Either way, it was decent stuff as this goes.

My bulgogi beef plate featured tender steak with red peppers and sesame seeds.

Korean purists will likely balk at the lack of Asian pear, but I found it acceptable fare.

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3.) Souvenirs and Beers Every Wed, Rahr & Sons Brewing Co. (701 Galveston Av, 817-810-9266) hosts a MidWeek Beer Tasting. From 5pm to 8pm on Wed, Mar 10, enjoy three beers, food from Dean’s Smokin’ BBQ, and live music by Guitar George, plus take home a souvenir pint glass, all for the low, low price of $15 per person at the door.

4.) Keep it Klassy From 6pm to 9pm, attend an intimate sixcourse wine dinner at a secret location hosted by Klassy Kreations Catering, whose chef is a Level 2 sommelier with an eclectic recipe book under their belt. All mysteries will be revealed as a hand-picked wine accompanies each course. The cost is $60 per person. For more information or to make a reservation, email KAaron914@ gmail.com.

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6.) Say Cheese On Thu from 4pm to 8pm, head to Legal Draft Brewing (500 E Division St, 817962-2210) for the Downtown Arlington Urban Market and the relaunch of Say Cheese P’mento. Along with these fine purveyors of cheese, the family-friendly outdoor event will be hosting more than 40 other artisans, food on-site from Picadera DFW, and live music by Jeremy Harris.

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7.) A Taste of Spring Chef Jeff and his team at Taste Community Restaurant are ready to launch the new Spring Menu. From 6pm to 8pm on Thu, enjoy a series of small bites ranging from healthy to hearty and understand the Taste offerings for the season. Tickets are $30300 on Eventbrite.com.

8.) It’s Sunday Funday, Don’t Be Sour!

From the looks of the weather forecasts that I’ve seen every morning — shout out to Evan on Good Morning Texas on Fox 4 — we will have mostly perfect spring days on the weekends for a while. (Don’t let a few sprinkles here and there slow you down.) Take advantage of this and head to Arlington every Sun for Sour Sundays at Division Brewing (506 E Main St, 682226-1276). Sours on the patio are $2 each from noon to 8pm.

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In demand producer/ engineer Peter Wierenga wrestles with the state of humanity on his debut solo EP. P A T R I C K

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If music fans still take the time to read album credits, those locally will likely recognize the name Peter Wierenga. As a producer and engineer, as well as the drummer for power pop outfit Siberian Traps, Wierenga’s unique Frisian surname appears in small print on dozens of local records. Two weeks ago, however, his name (at least his first) appeared across the front of an album for the first time. Under the name Pete and the Crying Teeth, Wierenga has just released a new EP. Entitled Capitalist Jesus, the six-song collection of captivating, quirky, and angular pop rock stands as his very first effort as a solo artist.

The project came about mostly due to consistent prodding from singersongwriter Joseph Wayne Miller, whom Wierenga has worked with extensively in the past. Miller felt Wierenga really needed to write and record his own songs.

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It’s taken a while, but the notorious West 7th district finally has a club anthem.

The brainchild of Fort Worth rapper Royal South, “Party on 7th” is being spun at just about all of the neighborhood hotspots. Texas Republic, Varsity Tavern, Kung Fu Saloon, Your Mom’s House, you know, the uzhe for henpecked married fortysomething dads like me. (I don’t always drink by myself in Fort Worth, but when I do, I go to Lola’s Trailer Park. #freeadvertising)

“Do you want to roll with a made n---a?” Royal South raps over a syrupy uptempo beat. “Eyes on the prize, on them eight figures / South Side, the realest, we some grave diggas / Big-body Jeep, swangin’ lanes with it / Getting to the money like a Blood going / On that 7th Street, then we going downtown / Now take a shot and make a TikTok / 817 diamonds on my wristwatch.”

A Trimble Tech grad, Royal South has been rapping for, well, a little while. His first club track, “This Is Why I’m Throwed,” generated a million downloads on Limewire.

(Remember that?) You may know him best from his I ❤ Fort Worth T-shirts. He and Menace Nava sold more than 20,000 of them after creating them in 2012.

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the potential for the project to give him the space to try out sounds he’s always wanted but never had the opportunity to explore.

“This was sort of like scratching an itch I had for things I’ve always wanted to do,” he said about the album. “In Traps, there were things that weren’t maybe to the taste of the other band members that I wanted to do, or if I wanted to do something that wasn’t like whatever I was working on [as a producer] — if there was an itch I had, I tried to do something in that vein.”

Though largely inexperienced, as a vocalist Wierenga lacks the reservation one might expect from a newer singer.

He has surprising confidence, which he attributes to years of experience coaching vocalists in his role as a recording engineer.

That confidence allows him to weave his way through the curious and interesting melodies that match the Zappa-esque qualities of much of the record’s music.

“It’s really about comfortability,” he said. “I’ve played drums in the studio a bunch, worked in the studio a bunch, but I’d never really sung. I have a lot of clients that get nervous in the studio, and I thought, ‘Wow, it’d be kind of cool to feel that again.’ ” As a musician, Wierenga is almost exclusively a drummer, so he said he needed to recruit a lot of help to flesh out the songs.

He would write the vocal hooks and lyrics, and various local musicians he’s worked with would fill out the melodic qualities of the tunes. As a result, Capitalist Jesus features an impressive list of contributors such as Ben Hance of The Cush, Clayton Norris and Dylan Rice of Vogue Machine, rapper Tornup, Taylor Tatsch (Shadows of Jets, Cutthroat Finches), Cameron Smith (Sur Duda, War Party), and Denver Williams (Chillamundo) to name a few.

“The best thing about it is that on any given song there’s, like, four or five people that are different for each song,”

Wierenga: “You can see good things happening around you, too, but you don’t know if it’s sustainable.”

Wierenga said. “It was just people that I really liked working with in the past. It kind of became sort of, ‘If you put different people in a room for X amount of hours, what happens?’ ” Musically, the sounds swing wildly yet cohesively from ’80s-era art rock a la Peter Gabriel on the single “LA” to the Ramonesian pop punk of “Loving You Always” and slick, hands-in-the-air hiphop on the track “Philbin.” The variety comes from not having to be limited by the constraints of being in a “proper” band.

“I don’t know if I’d ever play [this material] live,” he said. “It’s always been sort of like a studio practice. Like, ‘Let’s say we don’t have to perform this. What can we do?’ Not to mention there’s so many people involved. Most of it was recorded “The whole concept of [Fort Worth] having our own 6th Street [like in Austin] inspired me,” he told me.

You could say Royal South thinks West 7th doesn’t deserve its piss-poor reputation as a haven for young overimbibers who don’t tip for shit and clog toilets like it’s their job.

“I know most of the DJs, promoters, bartenders, and club owners, and they are very humble and awesome people,” he said. “Yes, it’s rowdy, and I know the owners try to keep it in control, but where there is alcohol, there are always going to be issues. I know if it was up to them, everything would run smoothly.”

Royal South said he would love to see West 7th “bring more local music to

and mixed over quarantine, where playing live wasn’t even an option. It’s basically just some weird shit I’ve been working on, and I hope people like it.”

Wierenga said he owes the near undefinable sonic textures to the wide variety of contributors with whom he was fortunate enough to collaborate.

“I’m not that interested in my own ideas,” he said. “If I can imagine it, it’s likely more boring than something someone else could come up with. Other people surprise me in ways that I think is much more interesting.”

Though the music recalls the devilmay-care attitude of Ween, lyrically Wierenga is not holding anything back. As the EP’s title suggests, along with songs like “Fuck You and Your Way of Life,” there’s some heavy topical themes he touches on. From the blight of prosperity gospel to increasingly bold and strident intolerance, he’s used the project to express some frustrations he has with the state of society.

“Some of this EP is about losing faith in people,” he said. “Things I didn’t think I would hear in my lifetime I’ve heard. You can see good things happening around you, too, but you don’t know if it’s sustainable.

It can all be so difficult.”

Despite the challenging subject matter, the record remains a fun, kaleidoscopic sonic adventure, one that Wierenga says was the result of “just the way I process things: through humor.”

Though he’s received some gushing initial reactions from friends and followers of his work since the record came out, he remains characteristically demure.

“I’ve been thinking a lot these last couple years about what it means to be in the moment and just letting [that moment] be its thing and not worrying about it,” he said. “The record’s out now. It’s all so new and different, and I don’t really know what that means yet.” l its venues. Fort Worth is growing so fast.

We have a lot of talent here in the city of all genres.”

The chorus is not necessarily a singalong but is catchy. “It’s just another night / Here we go again / On the way to 7th / Just feels so right … You should know the plan ’cause we all getting fucked up tonight.”

Visit RoyalSouth.hearnow.com to party along with the jam that’s available on Apple Music, Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, and all other streaming platforms. — Anthony Mariani Contact HearSay at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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