Texas school district plans to segregate 5,000 students with disabilities--bus them to far away separate, but equal facil

[riversedge]

This is SO wrong!!



Texas school district plans to segregate 5,000 students with disabilities—bus them to far away separate, but equal facilities.

Now even Trump's Dept. of Education has opened civil rights investigation.

"Longer bus rides could create challenges for students with medical needs," federal government report states.

"Schools cannot exclude students with disabilities simply because of their disability status."

The school district's plan would move kids from their neighborhood schools starting this year—to designated "Special Education Specialty Schools."

Parents argue that it removes children from their communities, long-time friendships, routines, and established support networks.

Houston Independent School District officials claim busing students with disabilities will help the district address long-standing compliance issues.

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[Deuxcents]

1. They never learned that there's no such thing as separate but equal. Another ridiculous MAGA idea

[underpants]

5. And it's Specially Special too 🙄

“Special Education Specialty Schools."

Back in the 90’s, before any of me and my buddies had kids, Gov. Gilmore’s DOE came out with its standardized tests Standards Of Learning or….. SOL’s. We all looked at each other 👀 did no one at ANY TIME bring up what SOL means?

[J_William_Ryan]

2. 'Texas school district plans to segregate 5,000 students with disabilities"

First they came for the disabled.

[The Madcap]

9. Was thinking the same.

Is this practice for something worse to come?

[flashman13]

17. The Nazis started the purge of the "undesirables" with the disabled.

[bluestarone]

3. Texas, under the current Government, is possibly the WORST of the WORST states today

Not blaming Democrats at all here. Just the no good republicans (subhuman assholes)

[mwmisses4289]

11. Florida might be worse, but they certainly seem to be trying to out do

each other in the we hate the people of our state and america department.

[bluestarone]

20. Oh, i hear ya!!

It would be a close call for sure. North Dakota here, and THIS state is to red for me. I don't know how you guys in Florida Texas, and other states around you guys handle living there. My hat's off to ALL Democrats that put up with their bull crap!! Hang in there all Democrats, no matter where your home is!!

[MIButterfly]

4. JHC, who are they going to pick on next?

That anyone would think this is a good idea and then implement it is outrageous. Why pick on the most vulnerable members of our society? What happened to basic human decency? I think the best thing for students with disabilities is to integrate them into society and keep them in familiar surroundings with all the support they need and not to ship them off to some "separate but equal facilities."

This is straight out of the Nazi playbook and another reason I have no respect for Texas (sorry Texan DUers; I know there are fine and decent people in Texas who abhor this kind of thing; I just don't like the leaders your fellow Texans keep electing).

[sheshe2]

6. Perhaps we should bus Abbott as well...

and he can govern from a facility that will 'better suit his needs'.

[surfered]

8. Good one 👍

[sheshe2]

10. thank you 😊

[Deuxcents]

24. Yes, start at the top

[sheshe2]

29. Abbott can lead the way for these little kids.

Lead by example!

[surfered]

7. It's what the Nazis did.

[RT Atlanta]

12. curious whether greg 'wheels' abbott has been asked for comment on this

n/t

[Abolishinist]

13. The upside is...

they'll have more time to read and learn Bible verses!

[1WorldHope]

14. Sweet mother of Gawd.

I don't know about y'all but I never thought this country could fall apart so bad so fast. What a travesty. I wish hell were real. I wish hell were real for them, they're making it hell on Earth for everybody else.

[3catwoman3]

21. The depth, breadth, and speed of the destruction wrought...

...by this administration is mind boggling, to be sure.

[Initech]

28. Well, the downfall of the United States can be spelled out in 3 letters: F O X.

So many of our problems can be tied back to Fox it's not funny. Greg Abbott is one Murdoch endorsed parasite we cannot get rid of no matter how hard we try.

If we want to take down the GOP, our first step is to take down the Fox Ministry Of Propaganda.

[Wiz Imp]

31. You're giving FOX way to much "credit"

FOX has never had a particularly large audience. Less than 1% of the population watches FOX in a typical day. Right wing talk radio has been a far more insidious party responsible for brainwashing the cult. (50 million listeners compare to 3 million viewers on FOX)

[Initech]

32. You say that, but why do they have 95% of the republican vote?

And why do competent republicans keep getting replaced with ass kissing bootlickers? And why is Fox on in every gym, car dealership, doctors office, dental office, and so on?

[Wiz Imp]

33. Huh? Your reply makes no sense.

It is a fact that Fox News viewership is very small in the grand scheme of things. Hardly anyone watches any 24 hour "news" channel. Talk radio has an exponentially bigger audience and is a significantly bigger influence. Add in online and social media as much bigger influences at this point than Fox News.

Rush Limbaugh is significantly more responsible for the current MAGA version of the Republican party than Fox News. In fact, Fox News wouldn't even exist if it weren't for Rush Limbaugh.

[mwmisses4289]

15. Keep in mind the idiot running the school district now was appointed

by abbott with the claim that HISD was doing really poorly (there were 9 or 10 other districts that were worse, but Houston is a Dem city in a red state, and is very diverse in its population). The guy was booted from at least one public school district for embezzling funds from the distict to go to his private christian school conglomerate in Colorado (or Oklahoma).

[PufPuf23]

16. Homo sapiens is a vile species.

Individuals seek to impose on the children of "others" and put them out of sight while teaching their own children mental illness.

[B.See]

18. Fine upstanding 'christians,'

every blessed one of 'em.

(sarcasm thingy)

[not a texan]

19. It will make it so much easier for PeeWee German to put them in camps when no one knows them as individuals.

School is where kids make lasting friendships with people of all types. Kids learn that they have more in common with other people no matter their circumstances than they have differences with those same people. Separating students will lead to us vs. them mentality. I guess if the powerful feel that special needs students may not grow up to be serfdom's worker bees that they have lesser value and should be treated as such. Dog, I hate these people.

[Karasu]

22. Compliance issues my ass. This is very clearly an endorsement of the regime's new crackdown on the disabled.

[no_hypocrisy]

23. It's more than medical challenges.

I teach special needs children (pre-K to Grade 8).

They heavily depend upon routine and predictability.

A longer bus ride to and from school could affect them emotionally and/or psychologically, leaving them too stressed upon arrival at school to allow meaningful work and progress. Same thing upon return home. And the bus drivers will be ill-prepared to deal with one or a multitude of students who are agitated.

This is anything but helpful.

[pinkstarburst]

25. What a mess

Houston ISD was taken over by the state several years back due to low test scores. This is of course all part of Abbott's overall plan to punish blue cities for noncompliance. Fort Worth ISD is being taken over by the state this coming school year for the same reason. And Austin ISD is in similar danger, due to three middle schools (all of which have a high number of ELL and refugee students) that have failed standardized testing for 5 years in a row.

Even if the majority of the district is passing, having even one school that is failing can trigger a statewide takeover, and once that happens (as has happened to Houston and FWISD), you are basically locked in a Nazi regime where teachers are forced to teach completely scripted curriculum, down to what you must be teaching every minute of every day. Monitors walk the halls and if you are "off" your assigned curriculum, you get written up and they can fire you. It's hell. And they don't just punish the failing schools, but the entire district.

You may ask, but why are these districts not improving their scores? The Texas legislature back in the 90's came up with a skewed formula called "Robin Hood" that takes money from school districts in blue cities and redirects it to rural districts in red areas. This would actually be fine and fair, except that the formula is completely out of balance, so that the red rural districts get so much excess money they are rolling in funding and have enough to build water parks for their kids, while Austin ISD has a $180 million dollar deficit for this coming school year.

https://www.kxan.com/investigations/aisd-points-to-20m-water-park-as-proof-robin-hood-formula-doesnt-work/

But back to the Houston ISD sp ed debacle. This is horrific, and it's important to remember that the people now running Houston ISD are not the people the parents have chosen. The state has taken over, gotten rid of their school board and all local control, and the actual people who live in that community, who send their children to those schools, no longer have a voice. And this will happen in FWISD and Austin ISD as well (and all the other blue cities shortly after) if we do not prevail in November.

[Initech]

27. We have got to get Fox endorsed shitheads like Abbott removed from power.

They don't deserve it. And they deserve even further to be put in prison where they belong. And does Rupert Murdoch. Fuck Greg Abbott and his bully pulpit, I'd like to tell them where they can shove their "compliance".

[Initech]

26. WTF is happening with the Texas board of education? All these clowns deserve life prison sentences!

[VMA131Marine]

30. This is so very, very wrong.

My daughter has Down Syndrome and having her attend school with typical kids has been very important to her development. Plus, it’s been wonderful how the typical kids have been so accepting of her and the others like her in the school and how the activities that have been set up foster those positive interactions. Fortunately, I’m in Connecticut not Texas.