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The kids are absent from the schools too - enrollment is way down. People are voting with their feet.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/hisd/2024/08/15/496800/houston-isd-enrollment-down-nearly-10-percent-this-year-district-data-shows/

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Statewide attendance down 20 percent, national trend. Voting with their feet or voting with their butts!

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True. But in HISD, enrollment is down more in NES schools-3 times as much when the district was being transparent with those numbers.

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Attendance or enrollment? Also- source?

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Thank you! I agree attendance post-COVID is a big issue- but enrollment is different and HISD is losing a lot of students currently.

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A Houston Cron reporter went to the first day at an NES school and actually wrote a positive article. I almost had to call an ambulance because I thought my heart was going to stop.

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Is teaching kids how to read becoming like excessive public debt? Vitally important but intentionally ignored. Trading educational outcomes for teacher votes and contributions should, in a sane world, be an electoral disqualifier.

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I think you're right, frankly. If we have the means -- and we do -- to rescue the lives of unjustly oppressed children by bringing success into their lives -- and we fail

to do it, especially if we choose not to do it to benefit adults who can't be bothered, then that becomes something in the order of unforgivable sin.

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"Kill the Lizard"? Is that a euphemism for abolishing a Federal Cabinet Agency?

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Shootsy, here is the reason the teachers' union remains the Invisible Man and never shows up in these stories. They send out an individual teacher, principal, or parent to represent their line. The union itself never issues a press release. Perfect invisibility achieved!

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Right. The union is the casting agency. By now the union and the Houston Chronicle can communicate in code: "Hey, friend, we need two disaffected, a despairing and a PTSD for a piece we're doing on teacher morale, and, look, we're doing a big photo essay, so if you've got anybody halfway hot it would really help."

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Casting agency . . . They're really good at a lot of things apart from teaching.

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In fact, the big tell here, the thing that exposes the collusion of Houston media with the unions, is the very thing you have pointed out. After countless stories going head-on at Miles, I haven't seen a single attempt to go head-on with the unions, to explain who they are, what their positions and strategies are, how they relate to the agenda of their nationals. As you so aptly observe, it is as if the unions are invisible.

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