Well, hell, I had not planned to write another blog this week. After all it is the July 4th " Short Week" as Tom Keen on Bloomberg calls it.
I was informed by at least 4 different people concerning this story and the Buna ISD.
This began when I was still with the ISD.
And whoever dreamed it up, well, it was brilliant.
There is a process in which a student can be exempt from the final exams if they are passing, and the number of absences is limited.
Trust me, it gets kids to school who normally want to lay up in the bed on Monday morning. Or hell, Friday morning....These kids are not like Honors kids who come to school with Cholera, Malaria, and Smallpox.
The senior class in order to get everything organized to make sure they all pass, and to get them the hell off campus, take their finals a week early. The senior teacher have to work on graduation. That shit doesn't get done on its own.
And then there dealing with seniors for a week in which they know they are " Dead Man Walking" and are as worthless a human being can be.
The rumor is, " Powers That Be" is trying to eliminate the exemption from finals, and seniors to lose that week of early release from school.....At present, they have to drive to school to check-in and when they get to school, they are given a doughnut.....And, they are counted for the day.
Why?
Just why get rid of something that gets kids to school? Why keep seniors on campus an extra week? They are a waste of oxygen that last week. They are often looking for trouble.
I don't know, it seems to be " Fixing something that ain't broke."
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