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[threeplusfire]

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.

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texas public schools

[kleverkira.livejournal.com]

living in dallas independent school district, my parents believe the schools are so bad that i have gone to private school for my entire education. and now i'm miserable even with the good education and the safety, etc. so i'm looking at boarding schools. i spend this past weekend in michigan at interlochen arts academy. it was wonderful.
this is what i need. not pretentious kids from overly rich families who claim (and i quote) "i could never imagine marry a man who's not as rich as my daddy." i have friends in the richardson district who love their schools though. maybe it's not all bad. maybe there's hope somewhere.

[lizdefiance.livejournal.com]

wow, i can't believe that about your school. it's seriously fucked up, and in ways different than most schools are fucked up & oppressive. good for your mom for doing something about it, though.

re: schools...

[ansat.livejournal.com]

Don't know you'd say Bush was either smart enough or powerful enough to do all that damage to the schools in the time he was governor. Especially while raising Texas's national rankings and pushing for genuine reform, like ending social promotion. I think it's more one of those "We are not fighting against humans. We are fighting against forces and authorities and against rulers of darkness and powers in the spiritual world." things. It is bigger than individuals, and is fundamental fault in our system.

I tend to think the schools are like the prisons, or like canaries in a mine shaft. They are on the front of the curve, but just show the problems in the system as a whole...

OTOH, LISD wasn't so bad when I was there. But it, too, has developed more problems lately, and had ones I didn't know while I was there.

[sasha.livejournal.com]

Eek.. Houston public schools (minus like HISD) are great. :S I'm very sorry you had do deal with all that.

[zombiechu.livejournal.com]

Which one did you go to? McNeil? I went to Westwood but when we moved across 183 they tried to make me go to McNeil, even though it was really far away. That was the stupidest zoning range for who goes to what school. Anyway, I had to go there for a couple days anyway while my mom pled my case to the bitch at Westwood and coincidentally, that shooting happened while I was in school there. My mom freaked and needless to say got me back into Westwood. I think that was a big downhill marker for McNeil. I even ended up years later becoming friends with that kid who had brought the gun to school (not knowing it was him at first) and he's really cool now. I think McNeil just kind of didn't put their foot down after that and that was weird, and of course they took no responsibility.

[jengirl.livejournal.com]

My god that sucks! Why doesn't your mother move so that your sister can go to a better school???