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Hey all,

I am collecting petition signatures to submit to the Keller Park and Recreation Board to request an investigation of the potential of a Disc Golf course at Milestone Park. We have a decent number of signatures but would like some more local support. If you would take a minute to provide your address and signature at the link below, it would really help. Let's show the city we want this relatively dead park space utilized better.

Thanks!

https://form.jotform.com/242775343150151

Edit: This is a petition in support of building a disc golf course in Keller. If you want to see that happen, please sign the petition and tell your friends to sign. We need your help!

I need a serving job—17 years in the classroom, and this is where I am. Who knew? Anywho I’d love to work at a busy place. Any suggestions?

The Specs Movement at 133 Pecan St will be having a voter registration event on Sunday the 29th from 11:30 - 13:00.

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We may move to the Ft Worth area and we are researching schools for my autistic son (8). We have heard good things about Eagle Mountain Saginaw and Keller ISD. Any insights, experiences good or bad are much appreciated.

There are so very many things wrong with the current board right now, and between being in the schools for various back to school events and volunteering, I have seen first had the state of things, heard directly from teachers their struggles with all of the schedule and planning period changes and being very transparent about doing more with less, and I am just so disappointed they don’t spend more time talking about school funding (outside of their disdain for recapture).

Have Capriglione or any of the other currently serving spoken on the record somewhere in favor for any of the house bills or amendments for increasing the basic allotment? Per voting records, they all voted no on the key pieces of legislation. I get that our district doesn’t have a direct influence on final text or the passage of a bill or budget, but they all complain about an amorphous “problem with the State,” but then there is no public engagement that I have seen with the representatives from our area who they CAN directly work with.

The number one priority that I hear most from other parents (regardless of political affiliation) is they want qualified, engaging, responsive teachers for their kids. Qualified should be degreed and certified. Engagement comes from experience and investment. Responsiveness requires time. If KISD cannot hire or retain this level of professionalism, then that needs to be the major focus of everything they do, and if they need more money to do it, then dear God, please show us how you are advocating for this goal. Ugh.

Also, a major disappointment was hearing Dr. Johnson talk about a teacher’s classroom and how great the work “weird” is. Unless you live as a hermit, everyone can see that this is coded language for the current political trends going on. She is expected to wear rose colored glasses and act Pollyanna-ish about the state of our district, but a clearly partisan comment, at a publicly broadcasted school board meeting is just another disheartening moment national political drama is blending into a public institution.

I don’t need the Board or Staff to belong to the same political party or carry the same ideology as I do. I do not need them to overreach in any direction be it books, communication, or policy. They should provide some basic standards that are acceptable to the community and in alignment with federal and state law. This district is too big to make everyone happy. And a lot of the community holds the schools to impossible standards but doesn’t understand that parents and families hold the other side of the social contract. We are all in this together and being the thought police or justice warriors of any one ideology isn’t how anyone should build their public persona or career around.

Everything I read in the online groups always full of ugliness and anger at the folks they perceive to be on the “other” side. This goes both ways. And I don’t have any answers, but I hope that someone can figure out a way for the community to engage positively with each other and the district, regardless of which fb group you belong to, who you vote for or what (if any) religious institution you attend.

Also, if you can, buy something off a teacher classroom wishlist, send in a extra bottle of hand sanitizer, join a PTA, talk to your campus admin not just about the problems you have, but how they are (hopefully) doing some things right. And please, please, please, talk to your state reps about school funds and vote for those who will advocate and support public school funding!

Sorry if this is hard to read, I'm pretty heated right now.

Hello, I am a current senior who goes to high school in Keller ISD. My freshman year, it was a pretty decent district--the admin tended to be a little overbearingly conservative, but I was in a robust, well-funded choir program, I had good teachers and fairly small classes, and everything seemed good enough.

Well safe to say these last few years have been a death spiral beyond what I could've imagined. To give a quick overview:

• Last year we saw sweeping budget cuts to almost everything, which included every high school losing around 20 positions--20. In all we lost just about a third of the entire district in staff--and because of such a severe shortage they're cutting teachers' conference and planning hours, as well as dramatically increasing class size. Not to mention the district is bleeding good, engaged teachers because the work environment has suddenly turned to far to the worse. At my high school, every teacher that previously taught AP lang left over the summer--which means that now the kids who are taking AP Lang, an extremely difficult AP class, are taking it from a random teacher who used to do on-level English 2. Not to mention there have been sweeping cuts to various KCAL programs to save on money, meaning future students will have many less choices and opportunities as they move into high school. Not to mention maintenance has largely fallen by the wayside; numerous classrooms are going without AC, there's been black mold and cockroaches spotted in some of the middle schools, and it's very obvious at my school that the facilities aren't as well-maintained as they should be. The impacts on our education are tangible.
• And, as the district is butchering our education, they're still keeping the millions rolling on various "security" upgrades. They've recently hired a ton of new security guards to stand around and intimidate students of color; in every school they spent millions installing bulletproof glass, which will not do anything against an active shooter who is more than likely already in the building; even gone so far as to consider purchasing armored cars, which is a huge slap in the face to all of the taxpayers who probably want their students to be learning something at school.
• The district has always been kind of conservative, but the current school board is absurdly far-right and it's consistently showing in their policies. Most recently, the board passed a new policy that teachers actually aren't allowed to refer to students using preferred names or pronouns, without explicit permission from their parents. Which not only seems like an infringement on free speech to me; it's also actively dangerous for trans kids going home to abusive parents, and they fully know about that. Not to mention the official stance that the district refuses to recognize any name or gender besides what's on the birth certificate. Not to mention that multiple teaches have been reprimanded for having pride flags in their room, while a history teacher of mine had a literal confederate flag hung in his room and never got it taken down. Nevermind them "mysteriously" canceling the Laramie Project at Timber Creek, which is a nonfiction play about a homophobic hate crime and its impact on the people around it--only to flop around and give reasons like "we just wanted something more fun", before going back on it and allowing it to be showed once they realized they couldn't bullshit their way out of it. Not to mention that there is absolutely no shame in shoving Christianity into secular learing environment; beginning every board meeting with a prayer, voting to instill volunteer chaplains in our counseling programs--you may remember an incident last year (if I remember correctly) when the admin invited a televangelist film crew into a school to film students without their consent. It's only a matter of time until this sort of thing happens again.
• The RIDICULOUS cell phone policy, which the district introduced fairly recently--without discussing any of it with the parents, students, and as far as I know, the teachers--that completely bans cell phone use during school hours. Which is one thing in class, but they're also banning it during breaks like passing periods and lunch, which is completely unnecessary and introduces so many obvious problems. For example, I have a car and I generally drive my sibling home, and sometimes my friends; with this policy in place I cannot communicate with anyone I don't have a class with all day, which means somebody turns out to need a ride after school I might find out halfway out of the parking lot. Or, as another, I'm in choir as a choir officer, and sometimes we just need to have an extra after school rehearsal, or my director will need help moving risers, or the officers will need to meet real quick to discuss an event that's coming up. Now these sort of short-notice meetings or events are completely impossible to coordinate. Not to mention that if you're a parent there is just no convenient or accessible way to reach your kid during school hours, because the office often doesn't answer phone calls anyway (because there is not much staff), and you can't really call their class or anything, so... good luck! I hope you feel comfortable with the fact that if there's an active shooting (if, say, a kid brings a loaded gun into a pep rally, which is something that happened at Timber Creek two years ago, and actually starts firing) your kid will have to unzip their backpack, take out their phone, and wait slowly for it to power on to reach you while somebody is running with an assault rifle past all of the bulletproof glass and into classrooms.
• The cell phone policy also comes with the caveat of teachers being forced to enforce it, at risk of facing discipline themselves. For a policy claiming to let teachers reclaim their classrooms, this is causing a lot of issues for teachers who have built their classrooms students having access to phones, who now have to restructure their class plans around the lack of phones. There is just absolutely no consideration in how they're rolling this out.
• In general, the district admin doesn't care. They're too strapped for resources to care, partially, but the board itself is more focused on pushing a political agenda than attending to the needs of its students. Do you want to send your child to a district where the admin's response to plunging test scores, rampant sexual harassment and bullying, and a severe lack of staff and resources is... making sure transgender students can't be called their preferred name by their teachers?

As a queer student, and as a child under the care of these people, it's terrifying to think about how much worse things have gotten how fast, and it's only going to get worse from here.

That all said, if you are a student or parent in KISD, or just someone who wants to help: there is a board meeting tomorrow, and you can find the information here. If you care about the direction things are taking, please come. Sign up to speak if you want. The board has proven before with Laramie and the 8-periods-a-day schedule that they will change their terrible tide if they're worried enough for their jobs. Worry them. And better yet, when the time comes around, vote and get some of these people off of the school board. Thank you for reading my diatribe.

EDIT: Y’all, the cell phones aren’t the point. If you disagree with me, fine. Whatever. There are more important things to focus on. Don’t let the semantics of the stupid cell phone ban take your attention away from the fact that they’re abruptly shoving it on us without having consulted the teachers or the parents. Don’t forget either that we’re bleeding teachers—that they’re butchering KCAL programs like game design not even because of budget but because they think it’s not worth teaching—that admin consistently unproportionally targets minority students with punishment—that I fear for my safety as a queer student in this building. Don’t focus on the wrong thing, please.

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Hi,

I’m a senior at Timber Creek High School. Just a few months back our production of The Laramie Project was cancelled without any explanation by our board. With the help of our community, we garnered thousands of signatures, international news coverage, and Tracy Johnson reinstating our show. The cancellation was a blatant act of homophobia, hidden behind hopes of a more “exciting” show.

A few months later in July, the board released drafts of new policies being implemented this school year. These policies included teachers being mandated to report to parents within 24 hours if a child requests to be addressed by a different name/set of pronouns than what is on their birth certificate, or if a child requests to use a restroom/locker room/changing room not aligning with the gender on their birth certificate. They are separating gender based organizations by gender assigned at birth, and they are requiring parents to sign off on students participating in school clubs. This will make many closeted students quit our GSA (Gay Straight Alliance), which may be the only place they find community and safety.

These new policies are being hidden by a district wide phone ban. These new policies will increase bullying, decrease morale, increase suicidal thoughts, increase suicide rated, and create an unsafe environment for our queer students. Just this year we had two suicides in one week at Timber Creek. The board is claiming their phone ban is being implemented to decrease bullying yet they are explicitly targeting vulnerable trans youth. Why are we not focusing on better counseling, better suicide prevention programs, and harsher punishments for bullying? We’re putting children in more danger.

Our school board does not care what goes on at home. If a child is forcefully outed to a parents who is transphobic or homophobic, they could be kicked out, they could be beat, they could be ridiculed. If a child is in the closet and hiding from their parents, more than likely there’s a reason. It’s sad that the school board is hiding behind “parental rights,” when the parents they are protecting are the ones who will not accept their children. Students will be stripped of the home they have at school.

Not to mention, teachers already have enough on their plates. Do we expect them to call every single parents with a trans child? The board is already increasing the cost of their employees’ health care, and now they have to report every single time a child wants to be called a different name?

If you want to make a change, please read, sign, and SHARE this petition I’ve made.

HATE IS NOT A KISD VALUE.

https://chng.it/YCgskq9Mjj

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Tonight, Thursday July 25, 5:00, Keller ISD Education Center

Some of the language under discussion:

"District employees shall not promote, encourage, or require the use of pronouns that are inconsistent with a student's or other person's biological sex as it appears on the individual's birth certificate."

"Parents/guardians have the right to be consulted and affirmatively asked for permission before their children use a name other than what is provided on their birth certificate... using only (i) the name that appears in the student's birth certificate (as originally issued), or (ii) if the student prefers, using any nickname commonly associated with the name that appears in the student's birth certificate."

"Keller ISD personnel shall refer to a student by a name other than one on the student's birth certificate... or by pronouns other than those appropriate to the biological sex... only if an eligible student or student's parents has instructed Keller ISD in writing."

"The District shall within twenty-four hours, notify any parent of a District student when" a kid wants to use a nickname, change their pronouns., or use a bathroom not in accordance with their sex on their birth certificate.

I just found out about the meeting this morning and it's too late to sign up to speak. But if you can, please attend and/or stream the meeting on their YouTube channel (https://youtube.com/live/hZrfFJ9p90g?feature=share).

And please write a letter to the board of trustees about this nonsense.

Keller ISD Board of Trustees

It’s my girlfriend’s birthday and I’m looking to do something romantic and memorable. I’ve thought about the option of taking her on a helicopter ride around the city but not too sure.

Does anyone know where I can find a house for rent ? Or good areas to rent an apartment? I prefer to rent a house and have seen some on FB marketplace just wanted to see if any of you folks can share some ideas. I’d like to stay around Keller and surrounding cities. Thanks in advance

Today, July 3 Wednesday at 1:00pm, alarms went off, I am assuming it was a test because 1 I am not dead and 2 there is no storms in the area.

I am having trouble finding what the different siren cadence means. Do any of you have a link to find more information for the local area?

Both 21+, we are looking for something fun and different than usual. Please recommend food places, things to do, places to see. Moved here from LA so I want to know all the best places

Looking for a place to fish in Keller. Tried Keller town Hall, Bear creek park, other little ponds with not even a bite. Tell me where to go!

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Where is the house that got hit by lighting and put a hole in the roof? It happened yesterday June 1st. I saw it in the news but it didn’t say where in Keller. Does anyone know where that was? Please share.

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