This post has nothing to do with homeschooling, but in a round about way it does.

All this week, as President of the Santa Maria High School PTSC (another acronynm for PTA), I have been getting calls and emails about the violence happening on the high school campus.  So I am working on putting together a meeting for our high school community so that parents', and students' concerns can be addressed.  And from speaking with one of our principals, it's supposedly bad.  But according to another principal, it's not as bad as last school year.  Well, I'm thinking, violence is violence.  And it's not your typical student scuffle, it's gang violence, girls jumping girls, boys jumping boys.  And then I also sit on the high school's SITE Council.  This is the committee that oversees the school's budget and make sure the all students educational needs are met.  Right now the budget is geared toward those students who are below the threshold.  Practically every fun program is being cut so that math and science and reading can be improved., (more like be taught to the battery of test the school gives).

But through this, I have been thinking to myself that by the time my ds gets to high school, things will be worse.  I don't want them to be, be I see it.  Of course, I have about 10-11 years before I reach that threshold, but it keeps me thinking.