MOM CLAIMS ALVIN ISD SAID DAUGHTER WITH SPECIAL NEEDS CONSENTED BEFORE ALLEGED SEXUAL ASSAULT ALVIN, Texas (KTRK) -- Eight months after receiving the news that her daughter, who is special needs, was sexually assaulted and strangled in the Alvin High School bathroom, a mother is still fighting for the district to take action... From there, the mother said Alvin ISD tried to claim her daughter consented. "'Your daughter walked down the hallway with him so she consented.' But I said she never should have been alone," the mother said. "My daughter would walk down the hallway with Jeffrey Dahmer, because she can't read people."... ABC13 learned the case was turned over to the juvenile division of the Brazoria County District Attorney's Office and a grand jury declined to file charges against the boy. We stopped by their office to find out why and are waiting on an answer. What is wrong with Texas? When I created this thread, I got “similar threads” which focused on Texas. We have Texans claiming wind turbines cause global warming, suing the Feds for wanting to protect a woman’s ability to abort of their life is threatened, claiming slavery should be called involuntary relocation, having their cops wait while their kids are murdered, and claiming walking with someone means she consented. I am sure many of you could find other crazy stories from that backwards state that have made the news over the past year. What caused Texans to go apeshit?
It was a one-two punch. The Republican Party and American right wing pretty much collectively lost its mind after W’s epic policies of failure, which opened the door wide open for the country to elect it’s first black man as President.
"(The principal) said, 'Things are better now,'" the mother said. "'He's being watched now. The teacher has been moved now. The powers are doing their job now.'
At this point, the state contributes very little value other than oil and a path for migrants. We really should just negotiate an oil deal with Mexico and then give Texas back to them with a HUGE apology.
Tragic what happened. Now, why in the hell is a special needs teenager with the mentality of a 5-6 yr old( per story) doing attending highschool?
Had a close friend from Texas. He recently moved back to Texas JUST to be around like minded people. Uprooted his family (all from here in NC). Its a weird dynamic. They really do think everyone else is wrong about everything else and that their states size is important and matters to people. The whole "dont mess with Texas" persona is real with this guy. Led to our friendship slowly dissolving.
Because it is a better way to get special needs kids the help they can use. Others can explain better but they really aren’t on a diploma path they are getting help and assistance on skills they can master.
I understand that part even if I disagree with it. I was questioning this particular case. The article states she had the mentality of a 5 yr old. Why would you put her in a HS setting?
Where are they supposed to go? If it's a small community, there will be no therapeutic schools, public or private. Intellectually challenged teens go to public high schools that are staffed with a teem specialists that provide the kind of education they need, mostly vocational but also the counseling and supervision they can get nowhere else. My son was in special education at our local high school (high function autism spectrum disorder). Except for his mainstream classes, he was in a classroom in a segregated area directly across from the students with intellectual disabilities. Many of them were very low function. Some even non-verbal. (He called it the "tard room" and the teacher's aids "tard wranglers." Austistic teens aren't always the kindest people.)
Scary stuff going on in Texas. If only people were smart enough to not be so influenced by campaign ads. Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks: How two Texas megadonors have turbocharged the state's far-right shift - CNNPolitics Elected officials and political observers in the state say a major factor in the transformation can be traced back to West Texas. Two billionaire oil and fracking magnates from the region, Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks, have quietly bankrolled some of Texas' most far-right political candidates -- helping reshape the state's Republican Party in their worldview. Over the last decade, Dunn and his wife, Terri, have contributed more than $18 million to state candidates and political action committees, while Wilks and his wife, Jo Ann, have given more than $11 million, putting them among the top donors in the state. The beneficiaries of the energy tycoons' combined spending include the farthest-right members of the legislature and authors of the most high-profile conservative bills passed in recent years, according to a CNN analysis of Texas Ethics Commission data. Dunn and Wilks also hold sway over the state's legislative agenda through a network of non-profits and advocacy groups that push conservative policy issues. Critics, and even some former associates, say that Dunn and Wilks demand loyalty from the candidates they back, punishing even deeply conservative legislators who cross them by bankrolling primary challengers. Kel Seliger, a longtime Republican state senator from Amarillo who has clashed with the billionaires, said their influence has made Austin feel a little like Moscow. "It is a Russian-style oligarchy, pure and simple," Seliger said. "Really, really wealthy people who are willing to spend a lot of money to get policy made the way they want it -- and they get it."
Ha, true. Notably, Alaska is more than twice as big as Texas, and I don't hear Alaskans bragging about it! That being said, the only short time I spent in Texas was cool, and the people were good to me. I never heard any bragging or tough guy stuff. I could be wrong but perhaps the people who were from Texas and left for whatever reason are more sentimental about it than those who actually live there.
A lot of high schools have programs for them where they can at least learn to basic things, like taking a bus or shopping. I have a friend who's nephew is autistic to the point you'd think he couldn't function at all in life when you meet him, and was in a high school program until he was 21 ... And even though he still lives with his mother, he can take a city bus to work, where he works in a hotel stripping beds...
Texas' public education system ranks #50 in the US for the percentage of students getting special education services. I'm guessing it's not because Texas children are smarter that the students in other states.
Also Texas. Didn't know if this goes in a Texas thread? A gun thread? There was a 2 year old in the victims car. As someone mentioned in another thread, everyone has a gun these days.
