GALVESTON
As they contend with questions of racial and economic segregation, island school leaders Wednesday face a major overhaul of Galveston Independent School District’s middle-school system. What they decide will significantly alter the way hundreds of island students experience their fifth- through eighth-grade years.
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Kill the best performing school and eliminate all grading. Go to full time virtual learning and never take attendance. Make "Gentle Breezes" the Ball High Mascot and mandate that the football team win no more than 50% of their games (so other teams can feel "equal"). That way everyone can be equally mediocre and no one will have to worry about high expectations. Until they graduate, that is.
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