[lbo-talk] Don't Mess With Mom

[budge]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 at 2:55pm DeborahSRogers wrote:
>
> Good for us, rah-rah, whatever.  But what makes this an example of
> such frustration is that, while my kids are going to what we jokingly
> call the "Dr. Feelgood School of Unrealized Successes," in this
> district the kids would be moving to middle and high schools where
> suddenly, almost overnight, negative behavior is rewarded with...a
> trip to the principle?  detention?  suspension?  Oh hell no, how
> about TICKETS FROM THE POLICE.  Or arrested.  And automatically sent
> to the "discipline school" without any appeals allowed.  And what
> kind of behavior gets you this kind of police intervention?

Ah yes, the lovely 'alternative schools'.  The Houston Press
has run a series of articles on these disgusting places;
here is one of them:

<http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-05-31/feature.html>

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