(Ed.'s Note: One of our three readers sent us this photo of a school bus picking up students from Matamoros at the exit of Gateway Bridge. We have known about Matamoros students attending Brownsville public and private schools for many years. We hadn't heard, however, that the school district picked them up at the bridge before. We made an inquiry of the district's transportation department and Transportation Director Art Rendon said they were not BISD buses. Further inquiry indicates that they were buses run by the IDEA schools here. IDEA schools are funded by state funds, so it amounts to the costs coming out of taxpayers' pockets. As per the federal courts, the school district cannot ask students their citizenship and only requires the students to provide a rent receipt or provide a utility bill as proof of residence. Another reader was telling us that he lived in a trailer park where the park was empty during the weekend when the kids went home to Matamoros and full during the week starting Monday morning when they clambered on the bus to go to school and lived in the trailers during the school days. Either way, the U.S. taxpayer foots the bill.)
12 comments:
No wonder we are going broke.
Every seat filled means money in the pocket of Idea or for that matter, BISD also. There has never really been any attempt to stem the tide of children coming to school in Brownsville. The receipt of a PUB or any other utility bill to verify residence is silly.
Simply disgusting.
Que raro...this has been going on for years. Jente sin verguenca.
It was there again today
Back in the 1990's BISD had attendance inspectors (I think now they are called home visitors or something like that). These people would go to the bridge and actually denounce kids from Matamoros and their guardians were told that if these kids did not live in the U.S. they had to be taken out of the system. A lot of times the attendance inspectors caught kids skipping at the mall or down Elizabeth street. This practice stopped when they changed superitendents and some board members during the 90's and at the state level they started cutting certain programs. The now called attendance "liasons" have to fill out a lot of paperwork, have to rely on teachers reports, their salary is less than 15,000 dlls a year and most have an average of 200 to 400 kids to handle *specially in high school; mostly on discipline (taking that away from the assistant principal).
Speaking as someone who is retired from the system, I now am able to see a great deal of young kids during school hours at the mall, at the Walmarts or even down town. Sometimes accompanied by an adult, most of the times either by themselves or with someone their own age. Some, by their vocabulary skills you can tell they are from Mexico (speaking mostly Spanish), A LOT of them are american kids speaking english with no accent, wearing their school jackets. THAT is also a waste of taxpayers money. That is nothing new; it is now being exposed because of social media, but if you listen to Matamoros radio stations, the announcers even say on the radio about kids living in Matamoros, but since they are american citizens they come to Brownsville to school. Is that right? NO, is it going to stop? Probably not because once again, we talk about it but do nothing to resolve it. Just like the problems we have in our city: (voting, potholes, Lincoln Park, lousy comissioners,lousy school board, etc., etc., etc.)
its a porter high school tutorial/ and athletics bus.
i ride it and yes i live in Matamoros.
BISD is more concerned with students that actually live in Brownsville and their parents are legal residents or citizens, going to schools that they are not zoned for. Games are forfeited, all kind of UIL violations have been handled and schools have lost play-off berths because they may have had a player playing a sport at a school that he or she may not be "zoned" for. Hell the UIL has more power than ICE or the Border Patrol when it comes to students not going to school where they are supposed to.
Where are our legislator on this??
Playing golf ......
Chingao! !!
The N.I.A. (NACO Intelligence Agency) has been aware of this practice for many years. NACO rogues went public on this top-secret operation.
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