Since our school district refuse to embrace technology of the 21st century in their methods of communications with parents, we are forced to wait for the flyer in our kids’ backpacks or hope we don’t hang-up too soon on the daily robo-call to get important information. We just received a flyer in my son’s back pack with revised starting and ending times for next year. Our flyer only addresses Anna Hause and Brookside so I am hoping other parents can fill us all in with the information for their schools and see if we can figure out what Dr. Kayrell and The Collective are up to now.
Brookside and Anna Hause will now be starting at 9:00 am and getting out at 3:20 pm on regular days (1:53 pm on those minimum days we all love so much…not!).
I am sure parents who drop their kids off at school on their way to work are going to have some issues with these new times. I wonder if the high school will be having a revised schedule as well, if not, Brookside parents picking up their kids will now have to deal with the high school traffic as well as traffic from the Taj Mahal.
Assuming the district will be eliminating transportation next year, what’s the reason for the later start times? Do you think anyone in the district will ask parents what they think? I would love to be able to send the district an email or pick up the phone and call to get my answers but I’m not sure if I would be following the latest policy and I would probably have to wait a month for an answer; I'm sure couldn’t afford the documentation fees anyways.
Please leave a comment about what you found in your kids back pack.
Thanks.
Three days ago you asked for "civil and respectful" dialogue, but you continue to be disrespectful with names like "knucklehead" and "the collective" for our District Leaders. I would think as an adult and father, you would model respect; especially if your focus is truly our kids!
Have you attended any city council meetings? Maybe they could shed new light...or completely extinguish any flicker of hope (which has been my experience). Good luck to you and your children. ks
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Not all parents - such as myself - have adequate transportation to get to/from the board meetings. Besides, not ALL board meetings are on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month. There have been several months lately where the meetings have been on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month - rather ironic that those are the same nights as the Beaumont City Council meetings. Makes me really wonder if BUSD administration has something to hide when they - clearly and obviously - schedule their meetings for the same Tuesday nights as the BCC. I have called and emailed District administration my concerns on many things. Guess what happens? It all falls on deaf ears. That bunch could really care less about the parents and kids that they were elected to serve. They would rather bow down to the almighty Kayrell and kiss his bum for fear of making him mad. Poor itty bitty Mr. Kayrell. What's the matter - someone hurt his feelings??? HA!!! That's if he has any. He only cares about himself and fattening his wallet at the expense of everyone else. So, let's NOT make everyone's ability to attend board meetings as simple or easy as you imply. You don't know everyone's story, you don't know everyone's journey.