After the Robb Elementary shooting, some Uvalde parents are choosing private or online education

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Uvalde parents are now trying to plan for the back-to-school season and facing tough choices over their children’s education and safety. Some are keeping their public schools. Some are choosing homeschooling and others are looking at private schools.

, a nonprofit organization focused on connecting students with resources, is also sending teams to the district to provide additional behavioral health support to students.

Adam Martinez and his son, Zayon, 8, at their home in Uvalde on Aug. 12, 2022. The family decided not to send students back to in-person classes, instead choosing to enroll in the district’s virtual alternative.The Texas Education Agency is in the process of approving Uvalde’s virtual school and making sure it complies withThe bill also caps the number of students in the district that can be enrolled in a district’s online alternative.

As a lifelong Uvalde resident, Gonzales wanted her children to have the same experience she did attending district schools. She also wants her children to regain a sense of normalcy after two years of school disruption from the pandemic. “I was telling my son, ‘there’s gonna be a tall fence, and they’re gonna have state troopers on all the locations,’” Martinez said. “And he told me, ‘Who cares if there’s cops? They’re not going to do anything anyway, they’re scared.’”

One of those is Flores Elementary. Gomez doesn’t think it’s a good idea to transfer the children from Robb there. For people who haven’t been in charge of homeschooling their child, it can be an overwhelming task to find the right resources for their child. Newman suggests they contactThe number of families homeschooling at least one child has tripled in Texas since the start of the pandemic, Newman said. According to Texas Education Agency data, nearly 30,000 students between grades 7-12 withdrew from Texas public schools to homeschool in the 2020-2021 school semester, a 40% increase over the prior year.

 

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The district has spent about $4.5 million so far in security upgrades, with some of the money coming from donations and grants. 👆👆👆 The cost of GOP running Texas

State troopers who are far more likely to harm him than anything else.

Abbott & TX GOP LOOSEN gun laws after shootings: “Seven of the deadliest mass shootings in the history of the US happened in the past decade. And four of those shootings, including the Uvalde shooting, happened in Texas.' Uvalde TexasSchoolMassacre

“376 law enforcement officers — a force larger than the garrison that defended the Alamo...” and they failed to defend the students & teachers in Uvalde against one – ONE! – teenager with an AR-15 who’d never shot a gun before that day. UvaldeMassacre

'I watched the entire video... I watched through the perspective of a 25-year law enforcement veteran & as the former head of internal shooting inquiries for the FBI... Was the Uvalde shooter the only criminal in the school that day?' ~FrankFigliuzzi1

I’m not sure what’s worse.. the description of a school basically turning into a high security prison, or the kid’s skepticism that even that kind of measure would do nothing to actually protect him

That school was locked down 48 times before prior to that happening due to threats of human smuggling, and that school did nothing to improve security.

The kid's not wrong. The sooner he realizes that the police are not here to protect him, the better

They are scared in TEXAS. No other state would reveal that complete lack of protective instinct and professional disregard. All hat (extra red maga) there.

Better a couple of brave LEOs than 400 cowardly ones.

Shame on us.

Learning some really tough lessons in school.

DBChirpy And the Uvalde Police cowards have zero to face.

This is exactly what GovAbbott and his funders want: public school failure so they can replace them with private “Christian” madrassas and suck up all the public school funds. Dead kids are part of their design.

This is exactly what GovAbbott wants. He's trying to push people into private schools where the republican party invests.

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