Where Have All The Students Gone:

Looks like more than just Spruce needs reorganization...

KERA reports about 30,000 students were no-shows on the first day of school in Dallas ISD.
Absences Mark Start of New School Year

First Day Of School:

How did your first day of school go?
Would anyone like to share?

Which Would You Rather See:

D.C. Tries Cash as a Motivator In School

So which is worse...or which will work better?

Paying students to goto school and work hard, or lowering the standards?

Spruce Fought DISD And DISD Won:

For now at least.

Last-ditch effort to keep students at Dallas' Spruce High fails

Reading some of the comments left on the article...we can really see how many people even paid attention to what was happening to Spruce. Over and over again we said that Spruce has been forgotten...well...those comments serve a proof.

Read the application for an injunction filed by Spruce parents (on behalf of their children) and community members HERE

Read DISD's response HERE

DISD's response reads like a New York Times Best Seller for Fiction.

In the mean time...The Wall Street Journal published an article on DISD's new grading policy. In case you haven't heard...it's more of the "ignore the real problems, implement a quick fix, and push students through the system" formula that DISD is so good at. Read the Journal article HERE

Spruce Community Forum:

WHO: LULAC & NAACP
WHEN: Thursday, August 7 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
WHERE: Pleasant Oaks Recreation Center
8701 Greenmound Ave Dallas, TX
WHY: Air your thoughts and concerns on Spruce HS and the greater Pleasant Grove neighborhood. Tell us what you were not allowed to say at the original Town Hall Meeting where DISD discussed the fate of Spruce HS.