Seesh

[bladespark]

So my dad is thinking of moving again. My mom is not pleased. It's the closest I've seen them to fighting in years. Part of the reason Dad wants to move is because of the house. If we sell this one at a profit and build another one, we'll be able to owe only a tiny bit, and pat it off quicky. But the other reason is because the Ogden City School District is being stupid.

Really, really, really stupid. Dad is a band teacher, and he's a very good one. Good enough, and dedicated enough that he won't stay in a school that's killing it's band program, and that's just with the school is about to do. They've come up with this brilliant idea that Ogden High, which currently has 9th through 12th grades in it, should have only 10th through 12th, and the 9th graders should go to the middle school. The middle school is already near capacity, so they're going to install portables so that the 9th graders will fit. Meanwhile Ogden High is HUGE, and is not at full capcity now! It will suddenly be half empty. And with a quarter of the students gone, a quarter of the classes will need to be cut, and you know what's going to go? Electives. Meaning that Dad will no longer have enough students to have three bands and two orchestras. Meaning, in fact, that Dad will have to teach math, or english, or something else, and that some of the electives teachers may have to leave the school entirely. And I know my Dad. He left Dixie High down south because the school wouldn't let him build a proper band program. If Ogden goes through with this, he's not going to teach math, he's going to leave and go elsewhere.

And here's the really lovely bit. The reason why they want this change? A small group of parents pitched it at the school very vocally, it's all the new wave, it's the best thing, they say. And it will keep our poor, innocent 9th grade girls away from those awful, predatory 12th grade boys! That's right. Some little 9th grade thing got knocked up by an older student, and now the parents are all in fear for their babies.

Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid!

Comments

[lin-chan.livejournal.com]

Odds are, their babies ain't getting pregnant during school hours. But of course their flawless parenting skills can't be to blame...

[duke-otterland.livejournal.com]

My mom quit teaching math about a year go and is a stay-at-home mom again.

[susie-que.livejournal.com]

schools in utah are weird whats up with having to go to 3 different schools or having a school witht grades 10-12. It retarded. I dont know about other states but in az your at one school for k-8th anh then highnchool at anther location 9-12. Plus if some teen wants to be sexually active theyll find ways

[sulcharae.livejournal.com]

For sale!:
One (1) Clue!
One (1) guide to grammar!
One (1) mass sterilization! (Must fail common sense and IQ testing)

[porphrygene.livejournal.com]

Oooooooooooooh boy....


Good luck with this one.:

[silveradept]

Nrrrrrrgh. Stupidity at its finest. Don't scratch out the electives, they keep people sane, because having a schedule of nothing but core classes is stupid and wrong. Plus, overcrowding sucks big time. If you have capacity somewhere, use it. Ninth grade is a perfectly acceptable high school designation. Someone should tell those vocal parents who are afraid that the seniors are hitting on the freshman just what sort of stupidity they're invoking for the sake of thinking their daughters are protected. (They aren't.)

[westly-roanoke.livejournal.com]

I went to a 9-12

I can promise you I'm not knocked up (nor have I knocked anyone up)

Course, I wasn't stupid, and I had CAPA classes to keep me sane.

::snorts::

[wtftastic.livejournal.com]

Maybe the school should tell the parents to do their f***king jobs?

[malakim2099.livejournal.com]

As a mostly lifelong resident in Utah... can I just note the irony that these same parents probably wouldn't mind their 17 to 18-year old daughter dragging home some 21-year old Returned Missionary? *snickers*

[draxynnic.livejournal.com]

Heh. In further contrast, 7-12 is still probably the most common in Australia. Sure, there's usually some sort of seperation between senior (11-12) and junior (7-10), but still.

Really, if the little sl... young ladies are going for the older guys in the first place... well, putting them in a different school may make them a little less easily available, but it also adds to the mysticism. The high school girl with a college boyfriend is enough of a cliche as it is.