I hear from people all the time who....." Just want to vent."
Many times when I write something concerning people having troubles with the Buna ISD, I hear from people well, for weeks.
And I am here for that. I may not have any answers, but I know it is good to tell someone else what the heck is going on with either your child, or what the school district is doing to the faculty and staff at the school. Just "get it off your chest" as the old saying goes.....
It is not even Christmas break, and there are people looking to get their kids into another area school district.....Even looking hard at homeschooling.
People looking for homes to rent, property to purchase to set up a trailer on and establish residence within that district.
Evadale is often the first choice and I am surprised at the number of people looking to move there. "I got to get my kids out of the Buna Schools by any means possible." And to many people, Evadale is the obvious choice.
I am asked more than you know " Mr. Thomas, what area school district would you send your kid to right now in the 2025-2026 school year?"
And I am somewhat surprised at the numbers of people asking me this question, and it is growing expeditiously at an unbelievable rate.
I'm asked that more than you know.....And I have serious opinions on the subject.
And still say.....LCM....Bridge City.....Orangefield. ( Sorry, I tell folks NOT to attend Buna anymore, and at one time I recommended it as one of my first choices for parents to send their children, but alas, no more.)
Yes, Orangefield. Still small, still gives a pretty darn good education. I just hate them for competition reasons.
If Mike Gentry had offered me the Orangefield High School Government /Economics job. I would have went down to interview.....
But take the OFISD position?....I would have been tempted, very tempted, but I still would have said " No."
My second year at Buna High I became somewhat attached to the kids in the Buna Community, call me an old fashion Victorian/Edwardian Romantic . Theological, if you will, in ideology. I always felt like I was supposed to be there. That old Calvinistic ideology of " foreordination" I grew up being beat into my head by my serious Presbyterian grandfather, even though I fight the belief tooth and nail to deny, yet, still influences my life.... ( Romantic is often defined accord to Webster's as "marked by the imaginative or emotional appeal of what is heroic, adventurous, remote, mysterious, or idealized.")
Adventurous, remote, mysterious? Yeah, believe it or not, Buna ISD seemed that way in my " different" pensive brain.
Why not Evadale?
Nothing against Evadale, People who send their kids there seem to be thrilled, however, I often wonder if the high school has enough to prepare their students for the next step in life? Smaller schools, while great when attending, often lack enough facilities, the faculty to prepare their future graduates for college, the workplace, etc.....I'll now receive mail from people expressing their delight with the school district.
I say this, and my child graduated from a fancy 5A high school , took three years of French, from two different teachers, and his French language skills amount to him being able say...."Voici les nazis" which translates to mean, " Here come the Nazis!" He speaks Mandarin Chinese, Korean but he lived in "The People's Republic" and South Korea for years. Got to learn the language to order orange duck, pork dumplings and noodles.( However, when RRT applied to Texas to work on his baroque Master's program, the combo of him taking 3 years of French in high school, plus his speaking ability in Mandarin sealed his acceptance.)
But, there are so many desperate people within the Buna ISD that, well, Evadale seems to be the only way out. And sometimes " Chances need to be taken."....It's got to be better than what my kids are going through right now...And Evadale ISD offers something that Buna ISD no longer holds for many.....
Hope.
And I can't blame them. I'd do the same thing if it were my child.
( Still working on an upcoming blog on Buna Schools, got a message last night changed my entire blog I was writing. I had 1100 words written, and just put it into a file. May need to go even more dark than first planned. Really Tenebrous...I may not blog again until this weekend. I have to be an adult for the next several days.)
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