They are refugees :( School children shunted and separated.

[Sgent]

I was just watching the WWL press conference with the LA Superintendent of Education.

The school districts are being allowed to form districts within districts which will provide services to evacuees.

This is nothing more than separate but equal -- all the evacuee children will be placed in rented buildings and temporary classrooms, while the regular kids will face no changes in their normal schedule.

[Catch22Dem]

1. I don't think it's "separate but equal"

I understand the frustration, but at the same time, we're talking about kids. As the parent of a 10 year old, I understand how difficult it can be to some kids to disrupt their routines. Obviously those children who were evacuated need some place to go to school, as do the children who are already going to school in these districts. Trying to integrate the two would create a larger logistical nightmare that the one that already exists. I think absolutely every possible provision should be made for the "temporary" schools to ensure these kids get what they need, but you can't send them into already overcrowded classrooms in existing schools.

[Sgent]

2. Expain to me how its not

Normal majority white kids get to go to normal schools.

"Refugee" majority black kids put into temporary adonded buildings without resources or teachers.

This sounds an aweful lot like SBE to me.

[Spangle]

4. I agree

Sounds like segration to ME.

[nodehopper]

7. who said they will have less resources or teachers?

I assume they will have at least teachers of the quality and quantity other public schools have, and the public school system, from what I have read, sucks to start with.

I think SBE is a false analogy here... :shrug:

[Spangle]

11. Reality CHECK please

The local school districts have all ready bought books and etc. for the year. There are very few, if any books to pass out to this many new students.

So automaticly they don't have a "school".

Florida is constantly opening up schools. You need libarys with BOOKS, computers, etc. All paid for by SCHOOL FUNDS.

Execpt for the ones that are "comeing though" on to a different shelter.. those kids need to be enrolled in to regular schools. AFTER they are settled where they are going to be living for a long while.

These people can not stay at the AstroDome permently. While they are at the astro dome, temp school.. NOw that I can understand. Other then that.. NOPE.

[Spangle]

3. Welcome to FLORIDA's Educational System

That is what happens here every day.

New kids constantly. Teachers take leave as soon as school starts adn the students are left the rest of the year with a subsute.

Maybe those areas will understand what GORE was talking about when he was speaking of Florida children was standing in the classroom because of lack of desks. Or that some students didn't have books, cause there wasn't enough to go around. Ok, I don't know if he said that last bit. But it happens down here.

[dogday]

5. And expected to pass their TASK test.............nt

[mcscajun]

6. Are they setting up separate Physical districts, or simply Virtual?

Could be the "districts within districts" are to alleviate the impact of the No Child Left Behind reporting issues.

[donco6]

8. I'm not sure the McKinney Homeless Act allows this.

We have several evac kids here and we are required to admit them regardless of lack of records and immunization info, etc. (perfectly understandable). McKinney requires a homeless kid be allowed to attend, but creating a "district within a district" seems to be circumventing this to an extent.

[MountainLaurel]

10. What the law allows and reality are usually two different things

Last year in MD a 15-year-old died while working on a landscaping job. He had moved into the district from another state, but the county wouldn't let him in school while the paperwork was pending (I believe it had gotten misrouted or was sitting on someone's desk). The process was into months at that point, so he finally gave up and took a job that legally he shouldn't have been allowed in. He died on his second or third day on the job.

[CountAllVotes]

9. it is also a way to keep them isolated

on purpose. This way they will not contaminate the others around them with the diseases that have yet to manifest, that is what I think. No check-up or anything before being admitted? This is wrong, wrong, wrong. My God! Do you realize what lives in those waters? The water has 2,000X the level of contaminants that is considered toxic. The survivors have all been exposed.

Why don't people get this!?