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In reply to the discussion: The willful race based destruction of a generation of kids [View all]secondvariety
(1,245 posts)of the South Pinellas schools (mid 60s to 74) during the early days of busing, and to say it was a disaster would be an understatement. Our "brawls" made national news in '71. Twenty some years later, my daughters were being bused to high school and the same crap was still happening. After about the tenth visit to the administration office to find out why my kids were being harassed and physically assaulted and getting a mamby pandy answer, I pulled them both out of school. They got their State of Florida Diploma another way.
My granddaughter is now a middle schooler in South Pinellas and if they try to bus her with the intention of making a school less of a failure or it goes back to the way it used to be with the assaults and harassment , I'll pull her out too and home school her. There's no way I'll let her get bused across town or put up with the shit we did. No way.
I'm truly sorry those Southside schools are doing so poorly and I'm sorry those precious kids like Tyree that just want to go to school are getting the crap knocked out of them daily. I can totally commiserate with the parents that are stuck sending their kids there and getting no good answers from the School Board. I'm a 50 year resident of Pinellas and I hate to see it like this.