The Houston Chronicle reports today that yet another Houston Independent School District employee has been nailed for illegal drug possession. Has this person been on vacation? Under a rock? In a cave? On a months long trek through Appalachia? Do they not KNOW their employer has been ferreting out drug users for the past couple of months?
The employee arrested is a TEACHING ASSISTANT in the special education department at one of the district's alternative schools.
Let's get this straight (pardon the pun):
A child is sent to an alternative school usually because of extenuating circumstances that make being in a regular classroom difficult. A child in a special ed. program at an alternative school is surely doubly burdened.
With that in mind, wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that kids in the second circumstance need as much help as they can possibly get? If you were the parent of a child whose special ed. classes were taking place in an alternative school, wouldn't you figure that those two layers of "specialness" were enough to keep your child safe from a drug user?
I give HISD credit for weeding out (again, no pun intended, really) its lawbreaking employees. But what a pity to have so many on hand to start with.
Doesn't it leave you wondering who they haven't found out about yet?
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