Many of my students [[who are misplaced Cooley kids) are on a bus for over an hour [[including bus stop wait times). most of the kids can't get transportation vouchers because they live closer to another school [[but DPS assigned them to our building anyway). Many of my kids have been to a new high school each year, because their old school closed. Most of those have NO pride in the building or their campus. I have 50 kids in each of my first three classes of the day and just about 33 in the other two. I am the ONLY English teacher at our small school [[we have 4 other schools in our building). Over half of my students receive some type of special ed services and another 1/4 NEED services but don't have the "label".
This is just sad...and the saddest of all is the closing of the Day School for the Deaf. They've made compelling arguments before to avoid closure and I sure hope that this new guy listens to them this time around. I can't sing enough praise about that school and what it offers to kids who would otherwise be lost in the sea of DPS.
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