okay let's talk about schooling
yeah uh what what what contacts do you have with uh public school system
okay well i have a boy and he just went into middle school early and i have a girl and she's in uh grade school
and then i have a little boy who goes to uh they have something just before kindergarten and it's called Early Childhood and i have a young a young boy in that
oh okay um-hum
so i i have a lot of children in in the school system down here
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and um i think we have excellent teachers here i am really uh like the students like the way the teachers work with the students
uh i've not been so um
happy with the schools themselves i guess like my last year my son and daughter were in the same grade school before he moved up to middle school and it was just packed
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i mean it was a a fire hazard if we had any kind of assembly there with parents
yeah
and it was just a real problem uh so we had to do a bond issue and and um
vote to take money and either have students bussed to different schools if that's what the preferred to do
or to uh work on the school work for another school to be built
which is a good idea but in the meantime the school still has lots and lots of kids in it
yeah yeah
so um i think one thing is that would maybe we don't have enough schools and secondly when we have enough schools
sometimes we can't get the the support for the teachers that we need to pay them to keep good teachers
well i think that's i think that's uh true i i've got a a little different uh contact but i've i've got a one son that graduated from high school last year and another son that's a
oh
a sophomore this year and uh my wife teaches kindergarten here in Richardson ah but
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oh great
in general i i think that the you know one of the reasons that we we uh
the choice to live in Richardson when we when we came here was the was the schools and i think that Plano and Richardson in terms of the uh
uh things seriously wrong with the public schools are are not nearly to the extent that that
we see through the out the country name
and right right and i think and i think part of that is that is the the uh your big part of that is just uh the demographics the population in those schools are are
typically uh people that very much value the education and support the the school systems and and uh
um-hum i think that's right
although there is still some still some problems but uh
i i you know i when when i was when i was going to school and i grew up in Iowa and and we in my family school was certainly valued but if there was ever any sort of a uh
if ever if i was ever in trouble in school i was also in trouble at home and and even more so and i think that that part of it is is not
yeah
exactly with the schools but with the with the uh
the culture that doesn't doesn't value the education and doesn't value the schools and doesn't support uh
the home yeah
uh i think that's right
what the schools are are trying to do
it is so hard with a family system um either divorced or or just one parent or just
yeah that's true
uh like and then if both of them have to work even that is a a hard situation
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for the children uh to to have a supportive system around them to make school work for them
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and i think it's really important that the parents work with the school um
yeah
i think what you said is is really a pinpoint though that the student and the family life really adds or detracts from what's happening in the school
yeah
yeah
so um well what about your wife is she she happy at school or she's just ready
well uh she she works very hard as a kindergarten teacher she she has she has two half day classes so she has uh
oh i bet she does
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you know on the order of twice as many students as as the teachers in the higher grades and uh uh
yeah
right right
but her her background is in is in uh
child development and and uh so forth and so kindergarten is as high as she as she wants to teach and she's she's teaching rather than something else because that that
uh-huh
yeah
that's the jobs that are available and that the schedule matches uh you know with our kids and things like that so
right
yeah uh and but uh the
