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Special needs students are being relocated from T.H. Rogers School in HISD and the district is providing parents with limited information.
"We at Rogers believe the PSI students are so important to our community," says Hutchison. "We are willing to do whatever is needed, and whatever HISD requires to continue to serve them." Hutchinson's mother, Elisabeth, says her son was motivated to make the video after seeing his school could look a lot different soon.
'It's reckless': Parents react after HISD plans to relocate profoundly disabled students to different schools "I told him that they're taking away the only choice that these kids have," says Elisabeth Hutchinson. "And I said that to Mack, and he said, "I'm going to do something." The district's Special Education Director recently announced to the parents of profoundly-disabled children at Rogers they would be getting relocated to neighborhood schools. HISD schools have been dealing with their own internal issues for months. However, a growing problem could be reaching its boiling point and forcing campuses to shut down. Parents tell FOX 26 Rogers is the only school in the district that gives exceptional accommodations for their student's medical care. In November, the school has been helpful for her son, Beau. The 15-year-old was born prematurely with cerebral palsy and deals with frequent illnesses. Teachers, parents say HISD school's decision to lock front gate during drop off is dangerous, unsafe The letter sent to parents does not indicate students in the Vanguard or the gifted program would be relocated as well. Families are frustrated since the unique campus caters to both levels of learning. "They didn't end up at Rogers by accident," says Hutchison. "They had to apply to get in. They made this decision for their students and HISD has made a different decision without even consulting them."leaders before Thanksgiving break, but officials had limited information on why students were getting relocated and where they would go.HISD is partnering with e-learning platform "Enrichly" to help students build their self-esteem through "gameified" online courses. The creator was recently selected as one of 50 businesses in the country to receive $100,000 in funding to help expand the program. Fox 26's Chelsea Edwards speaks with CEO Margo Jordan about how she hopes to use her program to help combat violence in Houston. For more information, visit https://www.enrich.ly/. "One spokesperson that was speaking for HISD proudly said, 'Oh, I can't tell you any schools that would work for your kids at this point. I just moved to Houston'," Hutchison says. Parents are also being told by those neighborhood schools that there is no room for their special-needs students on their campuses. They have begun filing grievances against the district. As of Dec. 1, at least 12 grievances have been submitted. In November, HISD told FOX 26 that this relocation decision was based on recommendations from the
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