Parents and students loose again to our poor school system
on April 5th, 2005 at 9:21 amSome 300 students heading into one of the five high schools in the Fremont Union High School district were sent home early and for good Monday.
“We asked them to come to the office, we called their parents and told them they don’t go to school here anymore,” said Superintendent Steve Rowley.
The school district is enforcing a policy that limits enrollment to only those students who can prove that they live in the district.
In the past, looser enforcement has allowed parents from as far away as Milpitas, Fremont, and South San Jose to do whatever they could to enroll their kids in the district. Many of them are drawn to the academic excellence of the district’s five schools.
“We’ve heard of parents renting apartments for two months, moving clothes into other people’s homes, renting post office boxes for $500 a month,” Rowley said. (more…)
After reading this story, you have to stop and ask yourself “Why are these parents and students so desperate to go to another school district?” Well the answer is quite obvious: The school system in their own backyard sucks!
Now this incident appeared to take place in an affluent suburb of San Francisco where people can afford to pay $500/month for a P.O. box. What about the kids in lower income communities where the “under-performing” school problem exists. Should they have the same options too?
***Note: I was in a conversation with some of you on a similar subject a few weeks ago on my Virtual Roundtable website. Just recently my administrators asked me to upgrade the software. Being the “Brah-man” that I can be sometimes, instead of just paying them to do it, I decided to do it myself. Needless to say, I deleted the whole install. When I get time, I will try to reinstall that website again.
