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The decision has already been made. KCMO School District needs to ust give it up and let Indep do their thing to get ready for the new school year!

Kansas City shcool district proves what they are about once more, "money" is their objective always has been, always will be. Educating children is not their priority, that is a disclaimer.

The KC school district should be ashamed. They continue to show their disregard for the education of our children. With a reputation of misuse of finances, questionable school board members, revolving superintendants with outlandish salaries and perks, the district continues it's downhill slide. I wouldn't even consider letting my children attend their schools.

I think you should go to schools in whichever district you live. On the bickering between who owes who for the buildings, I think they need to go back to the time when the KCMO schools took over. Did they get money from the Indep school district to cover costs or did Indep get money from the KCMO school district? Whichever district received money years ago, should be the one to pay the other district this time around. One district should not get paid twice. Also, if the Indep district did not have enough money to prepare the schools properly for the students, including maintenance and upkeep, then why on earth did they push so hard to get the kids moved? That was very poor planning. Leave it up to adults to screw up everything!

desegregation lawsuit were paid for by the State of Missouri, of which these buildings were not upgraded near to the extent of the school buildings in the City of Kansas City. Most of those schools were tore down and rebuilt. The most done to these building were remodeling and about half of the schools in Independence did not even get air conditioning. About ten years ago the bleachers in the Van Horn High School were condemned. And I am pretty sure there hasn’t been any improvements to this school since. I am wondering how close it is for the whole building to be condemned.
I have lost all respect for the Kansas City Missouri School District, not just due to their inability to educate the children they are entrusted too, but their lack of being able to even keep the buildings in their district up to standards of other school districts. I see a lot of the schools that were tore down and rebuilt during the desegregation lawsuit are in need of serious repair. I would think with brand new buildings they would be able to keep up with simple maintenance but I see they are so busy trying to make the parents happy they can’t make hard decisions, like closing schools and using the money to make repairs and upkeep to the existing buildings. After visiting some schools I find it very hard see what is going right. Teachers are left to sweeping their rooms and cleaning sinks and other work areas instead of concentrating on educating just so the district can save a few bucks. Some custodians were complaining about having to sweep up pencils and crayons, paper & shavings on t

of Kindergarteners. I don’t think I would want my six year old going to school with 17 and 18 years olds. I do not place blame on the employees of the School District as they are only doing what they are allowed or have time to complete. I am thoroughly angry at the Board of Directors, past & present. It appears from the last election that the only people who want anything to do with the district are those who want to siphon money from its coffers for the themselves and friends and then take off and leave it in shambles, and it looks like they ran out of people trying to do that. It is clear to me with these new developments the school district does not care about the education of our children, especially when they are trying to lock 2,500 children out of schools that don’t even belong to them.
Kansas City, Missouri School District Board of Directors please stop acting like a bunch of spoiled little brats that didn’t get their way and let Independence do what they need to get the schools ready to start educating these children before something really drastic happens to your School District and the children of Kansas City start suffering more than they already are. KCMOSD your district is now smaller and should be a little bit more manageable so please concentrate on the children left to your care and let Independence carry on with what has been entrusted to them.

KC School District graduation rate below 50 percent, study says
March 31, 2008

Fewer than half of Kansas City School District students make it to graduation, according to a national study that ranked Kansas City 40th out of the nation's 50 largest cities.

The report by America's Promise Alliance, released today, used data from the 2003-04 school year to calculate a graduation rate of 45.7 percent for Kansas City, compared with the national average of 69.9 percent.

'It's not the place where we want to be,' district spokeswoman Cynthia Wheeler-Linden said. 'What matters is where we are going.'

Where are they going?

Time for the State to take over!

I was born and raised in Independence and still do and have actally went to school at one of these schools that are being converted back to Independence, Mo. district. To me it's just common sense these schools should have NEVER been considered Kansas City, Mo. schools. Very simply, the physical street address of each of these schools ARE Independence, Mo. How they ever became part of the Kansas City, Mo. district is still very unclear, and a big mistake that should have NEVER happened to begin with along with all of the busing issues.
In comparing the classroom settings, Independence district verses Kansas City district...I have attended both growing up and let me tell you the Independence district is a far better district by leaps and bounds. When I was required to attended one of these schools that had been converted to Kansas City, Mo. district even though I resided in Independence, Mo. it was purely AWFUL.
The classsroom was like a continual three ring circus between the teachers and the students. Even as a child I could not believe my eyes everyday that I attended school. The teachers could not teach because they were busy trying to control the students, daily. A total joke. Thank God it was only for a partial school year. My brother and I would constantly complain about the atmosphere to our parents.
While my family lived in Independence, and we were required to attend one of these schools that had been taken from Independence and given to Kansas City, Mo. we did not even have bus transportation, but the children being taken from Kansa

-continued- we did not even have bus transportation, but the children being taken from Kansas City, Mo. and sent to Independence, Mo. had plenty of bus transportation. While our parents had to drive my brother & I to school everyday & pick us up.
Has any one thought about what Kansas City, Mo. school district purchased these schools for way back when the transfer took place? I gaurentee it was not 12 million plus, if anything at all. These school buildings have NOT been maintained over the years and it is very obvious just by looking. This is going to be a project for Independence to cordinate. These schools are slummy, and Kansas City, Mo. district should be happy we are taking these schools back. It has always saddened me when driving by these schools. Not the best enviroment for the children.
I hear that Kansas City Schools are not even accredited....now how in the world does this happen. Kanas City, Mo. schools up and running but NOT accredited? What about when these children go to apply for college, "Oh sorry the grade school through high school that you attended was not accredited, we can't even consider you for this college."
Kansas City schools have never had their act together and I don't see it changing any time soon. Some one is obviously lineing their pockets with money and forgetting about the children in the school system.
KANSAS CITY, MO. GIVE UP THE SCHOOLS LIKE
- continued - NO OPTIONS. THE CHILDREN AND PARENTS HAVE SUFFERED IN INDEPENDENCE. MO BECAUSE OF THIS MISS MANAGEMENT FOR OVER 25 PLUS YEARS. NOT TO MENTION OUR

My daughter put my granddaughter in the "magnet school" at Central High and what a horrible experience that was. My granddaughter was a very studious girl an wanted to learn. She took her studies seriosly. She complained to my daughter about the disruptive kids in the class and the teacher didn't do anything about it. She said he acted like he was afraid of them. One day several girls decided they wanted to go to the library to view a film so the teacher dismissed them. They returned shortly because the film was not available that day. They were rowdy and my grandaughter quietly said "shhh we are studying" and the girls to exception to that. They were ready to pounce on her. The teacher called from the front of the room and told all of them to go to the hall to settle their differences! Of course the girls (6 of them) were ready to go and were taunting my granddaughter to go. My grandaughter just sat there - scarred out of her wits. She went home that day sick to her stomach and having horrible asthma attacks.
My daughter and son-in-law went to the school the next day to confront the principal and the teacher. That was a joke. Ended up they could not guarantee the safety of my grandaughter so my daughter and son-in-law pulled her from school. That's what the KCMO schools are like. That's why the teachers are making huge salaries; they couldn't keep them otherwise. How pathetic. No discipline at all. Makes you wonder what home life is like.
KCMOSD needs to let Independence have the schools and get on with teaching our children. Let KCMOSD get on with looking toward break