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My former high school has gone to hell. It's now the worst campus in the Round Rock school district. Police refuse assignments there. My mother is pulling my sister, a sophomore, out and sending her to the community college to get her GED. Her math teacher is failing her no matter how hard she tries, and repeatedly tells my sister to give up and drop out, cause we don't need your kind in the schools. How can you say that to a kid? Last week my sister was violently assaulted by another kid in the classroom, while a teacher watched. No one tried to stop it, no one called the police, they didn't even bother to call my mother. When my sister got home, she of course told my mother who turned around and called the school. Their reply to the incident was "Well, we're understaffed." What the fuck? They can't even keep my sister safe on a good day, and the schools tried to cover up the bomb threats on the Columbine anniversary. If a local station hadn't blown open the story, they wouldn't have told any of the parents.

It scares me, it scares me. This is the same school that told me it was all my fault they hired a child abuser, that it was my fault the man was harassing me and other students, my fault that he was abusing us. My fault, cause I was obviously a fucked up kid. And now they are trying to destroy my sister's life too. God.

My mother is devastated. Because she always told us school was important, to have respect for it, to get that diploma and go to college. Now she is in a position where it is safer and better for my sister to drop out and go to ACC for a GED.

Fuck you George W. Bush. This is your legacy, the Texas public education system. Fuck you Round Rock Independent School District. Fuck you for not caring about us. My children will never go to public schools here. It's worse than I ever imagined it could be.