Opinion: T.H. Rogers Parents Demand Answers and Don't Want What's Happening Covered Up

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There was a whole lot of shouting going on as T.H. Rogers parents met with HISD officials Friday and opposed the plan to ditch special ed at the school.

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Parents wanted to know why if T.H. Rogers wasn't broke, why HISD was insisting it was"fixing" things by moving out its special ed kids.Friday morning's meeting between administrators and T.H. Rogers parents and others concerned about the Houston ISD plan to off-load its special education kids there back to their home schools, didn't exactly live up to how HISD likes to bill itself as"transparent.

So why were parents invited to this meeting to share their thoughts if everything is set in stone already? Sounds like someone is just ticking off a task box. By the end of today's meeting, HISD assured us another meeting is planned. To what end we wonder. "You're going to throw our kids to the side," charged parent Jose C. Sanchez whose son Alex"Superman" Sanchez is in special ed at Rogers."This is the dumbest idea in the whole wide world. What makes you think that we're going to go to a school that we tried to get out of that you're going to try to turn around and put us back in?"

Broadcast media, readily identifiable because of their cameras, were escorted out under protest while HISD public information officer Luis A, Morales, in a fine display of semantics gamesmanship, announced that the media wasn't being"ousted," it was just being asked to wait outside and parents could talk to them there. No one was buying that.

"The services that our children get here, other schools don't profile," said parent Anitra Washington."Do you know how much it took for people to get their children into this school? Because of this school?"

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