[Education] KatyISD's Morton High students walk off to protest teacher layoffs

When I was teaching HS it was around 40 kids a class and we had teachers retiring that weren't going to be replaced. It's just insane. Helping kids with their work was like a shuttle drill. To cut more teachers is just unimaginable.

 

Especially in these short 45-50 minute classes that most high schools have. Block scheduling is much easier (what my high school had), but I believe more expensive.

 

Go government schools go! or... Where are your "protests" now?

Searches by dogs yield no drugs at Janesville middle schools

By GAZETTE STAFF Saturday, April 2, 2011

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JANESVILLE — Police used two dogs to sniff all the lockers at Edison and Marshall middle schools on Friday. No drugs were found.

The dogs swept all the schools’ lockers. They reacted 14 times at Edison and 13 times at Marshall, said district spokeswoman Sheryl Miller.

When a dog reacts, lockers are searched. Often, nothing is found, although the dogs could have been reacting to residual traces of drugs, police have said.

Students were placed on “soft lockdowns” during the searches, which lasted slightly longer than 30 minutes each. The lockdown keeps students and staff in their classrooms, but classes go on as usual.

These were the sixth and seventh drug-dog searches in Janesville middle and high schools this school year.

All five high and middle schools were searched last fall. If the district follows the pattern, Franklin Middle School and the two high schools are likely to be visited by the dog teams sometime this spring.

http://gazettextra.com/news/2011/apr/02/searches-dogs-yield-no-drugs-janesville-middle-sch/

 

Morton Ranch Jr. High protested, hence our lockdown yesterday.