More than 1,700 students displaced by Hurricane Katrina will begin classes today:
About 300 students who have taken shelter at Reliant Park or the George R. Brown Convention Center registered for school on Wednesday. Nearly 1,500 other students displaced by the hurricane had enrolled from other locations at schools throughout the district.Students from Reliant Park will attend classes at Douglass Elementary, Fleming Middle School and Jones High School.
Students staying at the George R. Brown Convention Center will attend Ryan Elementary, Black Middle School and Scarborough high School.
HISD officials said they would continue to take in students as needed.
For more information on registering a displaced student at an HISD school, call (713) 892-6699.
To handle the influx of new pupils, HISD is hiring:
The Houston school district expects to hire dozens of educators to teach students left homeless and without a school.Educators displaced by the hurricane are encouraged to attend the district’s job fair on Thursday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the district’s administration building in the Weslayan Building B Auditorium, located at 3233 Weslayan.
For more information, call (713) 892-6673.
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About 64 new students, “angels” from New Orleans, showed up at Scarborough on Thursday 9/8/05. At lunchtime a large number of these “angels” started trash-talking Houston, Tesxas, and Scarborough High School. A number of the Houston students, verbally defended their school, city, and state. Lunch period was cut short to avoid a fight. Students were herded back to their classes without further incident.
I understand that these “angels” have lost everything and are angry, but that’s no excuse to come into OUR schools and trash-talk our schools, city and state . . . all of which have gone way beyond neighborliness to help out.
Unbelievable!!! We can give and give to the New Orleans refugees, but can’t even get our own legislature to pass school funding legislation for OUR kids!!!! How are we supposed to educate these new students when we can’t even get funding for the current students???