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To: Ahda who wrote (1903)	4/11/2001 2:08:25 AM
From: Ahda	Respond to of 24758

We have spoken of the injustice that stems from justice on this board. So I will discuss bussing that occurred in my area. The houses in my area are a little above moderately priced. Most of the families who buy have two working parents and opt for private schools which we have two of in my area both excellent and expensive. We have a school building capable of holding many children and we had few local children utilizing it when my last child attended school. We still had a very active group of parent who dearly loved the school, we funded a portion of the activities ourselves . At one point we were trying to create a charter to escape some of the problems associated with percentage of funds going back to the central PTA. Due to these funds we generated we were able to create a computer class room and staff it ourselves. We had a large group of qualified parents who volunteered and also taught extra classes. The Hispanic children who attended our school had the largest benefit due to the language barrier we were state funded as ESL. Our gifted received additional funding but our funds were minimal for gifted maximum for ESL. . The Black children that were bused in had a different method of communication. In my opinion this left them at more of a disadvantage than the Hispanic. Teachers had to speak Spanish but no one felt that Black inner city had its own lingo and jive. Our Asians were local. We had all races who clung to their own race. Except a screwball like my kid who was already colour blind. I felt integration was becoming total segregation, if lip service wise we tried to say it worked it wasn't working. We had groups of children going to numerous classrooms and teachers who used team teaching to try to address the needs of a very diverse group of kids. Home room integrated by law was just a room for roll call and non academic inter action. Bussing made it close to impossible for the children to bring home a friend who took the bus in. That ride could be an hour ride in off hours and who wanted to try that in peak traffic time. There weren't easy ways to solve the problems We tried double grade classes and still numerous teachers were coming close to nervous breakdowns twas a mess with tenure and timeout. Many parents opted for total gifted quarters and left. At the junior high level the local school maintained the ESL program but gifted program funds were again limited. There was not the enthusiasm to continue the effort of funding and aid by the parents into the this level of education. The situation was unjust. I would walk in to regular level classes where some teachers were using more abusive language than the kids on the playground. It was like a group of kids and the teachers who teaching by use of F--- you to. How do you get the parents to school once or twice a year on open house you offer them a bus. It is not fair to the parents who live to far, nor to the children who become branded as a can't get a hold of the parent kid. How does a parent judge a teacher unless they are there to see the state of the class on a regular day base not just once a year. Parents have to participate it just not possible to know what is going on unless you do and you can't have a school an hour drive from where you live. What do you do if you don't have a car? How do you detain a child after class to talk to him her and have them miss the only way to get home. All these things were just to minor to even consider. We were so successful at this that our local junior high has somewhere around one percent local community children in it now.