Uvalde parents are now trying to plan for the back-to-school season and facing tough choices over their children’s education and safety. Some are keeping their public schools. Some are choosing homeschooling and others are looking at private schools.
, a nonprofit organization focused on connecting students with resources, is also sending teams to the district to provide additional behavioral health support to students.
Adam Martinez and his son, Zayon, 8, at their home in Uvalde on Aug. 12, 2022. The family decided not to send students back to in-person classes, instead choosing to enroll in the district’s virtual alternative.The Texas Education Agency is in the process of approving Uvalde’s virtual school and making sure it complies withThe bill also caps the number of students in the district that can be enrolled in a district’s online alternative.
As a lifelong Uvalde resident, Gonzales wanted her children to have the same experience she did attending district schools. She also wants her children to regain a sense of normalcy after two years of school disruption from the pandemic. “I was telling my son, ‘there’s gonna be a tall fence, and they’re gonna have state troopers on all the locations,’” Martinez said. “And he told me, ‘Who cares if there’s cops? They’re not going to do anything anyway, they’re scared.’”
One of those is Flores Elementary. Gomez doesn’t think it’s a good idea to transfer the children from Robb there. For people who haven’t been in charge of homeschooling their child, it can be an overwhelming task to find the right resources for their child. Newman suggests they contactThe number of families homeschooling at least one child has tripled in Texas since the start of the pandemic, Newman said. According to Texas Education Agency data, nearly 30,000 students between grades 7-12 withdrew from Texas public schools to homeschool in the 2020-2021 school semester, a 40% increase over the prior year.
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