c-jags said:JDUB08AG said:
Yeah these mega districts are terrible for communities. We left Conroe for private school not because of the curriculum, but lack of discipline and control - I'm all for parents having a voice and ensuring our districts aren't littered with woke propaganda, but some of these schools cater so pathetically to every parent at the detriment of other kids. The number of accommodations allowed is incredibly stupid. You can't effectively manage 70 campuses and 80k students effectively. It's absolutely absurd. And what's sad is Conroe ISD is small compared to other districts.
I work for a technology reseller now and K12 is exclusively my customer.
One of the products I sell is a classroom management based out of UK. One of my peers here in the US went over to help deploy a new product and said that each campus is locally run (I.e. Conroe HS is it's own entity and has no control over Conroe MS or Conroe Elementary.)
He said it even for some of the bigger schools around London it was so much easier to deal with due to local control and less bureaucracy.
From somebody who deals the business side of a lot of schools your kids are in, there's a lot of people out there that care about your kids and want to do the right thing by your tax dollars and there are a lot that view you as a cash cow to line their friends' pockets and move up in the world. There are some that genuinely view you as the enemy and some that want to partner with you.
I believe it and the malicious ones pretend to be selfless educators