Hello everyone,

I’m a senior broadcast student at UTA working on a news package for my class and portfolio. I’m looking to speak with Keller parents, teachers, and taxpayers who want to share their opinions about the proposed Keller ISD split.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend the meeting happening right now, but I’d still love to hear from those willing to share their thoughts on camera for my story.

If you’re open to being interviewed, please message me! I can also give out my LinkedIn if anyone would like to know more about my background first.

Thanks

Hi! Im new here and with the entire school board fiasco I want to keep up to date, so please tell me all I need to know. I saw the live stream but I only learned about this recently, thanks! Edit: my main social media is discord so if someone can send me an active link that would be awesome, bye

For anyone interested in maybe filing, or want information on when our next school board election is.

It’s paramount that we get better voter turnout for school board elections! Your local, small room offices have a large and immediate impact on your local lives.

Please vote in your school board and city council elections!!

https://www.kellerisd.net/board-of-trustees/elections

Hello everyone,
I’m a 30-year-old single woman interested in purchasing a home in Richlands.
I’ve found one property near the NRH City Center listed at $350K with a 6.99% interest rate. Another option is in Baker Landing, Richlands, priced at $320K with a 4.29% interest rate.
Also any idea how CB Jeni Homes is or DR Horton is?
Which one do you think would be a better investment for future resale value or leasing potential? Your advice would be greatly appreciated!

Asking for my son 😆 Do more people in this area use Hinge or Bumble? He’s 24 if it matters :)

I’m a 30-year-old Indian woman currently living in Plano and working in Fort Worth. The daily commute has become challenging, and with my lease ending in February, I’m considering buying my first home instead of renewing. I’d prefer a newly built house with a budget of no more than $350k, ideally in a location where I could also rent out a room.

I’m not sure if buying a house while being single is the right decision, but I don’t want to wait until I’m married to take this step. I have a good church community in Plano, and I love the convenience of Indian grocery stores and restaurants here. Something similar would be nice.

Also, I don’t think I want to live in Dallas for more than 3 years, so resale value is also a priority for me.

I’ve viewed homes in Watauga (near Keller), Grand Prairie, Farmers Branch, and Mansfield. Do you have any suggestions or advice on locations that would work well for both living and renting while keeping resale value in mind? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Also, any suggestions for Watauga?

They closed down Hell's Gate. Now I guess we'll stay inside and play video games instead of being adventurous, explorative, and enjoying the outdoors like the youth should.

Let’s see your best snowman Keller!

Hey! I'm a recent grad and would be moving to Keller for my job from May 20. Please let me know if there's any leads of single room with attached bathroom in an apartment or house. Only preference is hygiene and clean place, pretty cool with everything else.

Would really appreciate it :)

DM me with any leads : (918) 376-0897

P.S : It's a Google voice number to avoid spam calls. Please only message me if you've any leads. Thanks!

Looks like a Rhodes Island Red chicken. Lost or abandoned in North Keller. Trying to tend to it for 4 days, soon coyotes or cats will get it. Contact

Hello neighbors. Anyone knows of a stylist who does layers? I've gone to several salons and seems like no one knows how to properly cut hair anymore, it's all about coloring. I have long straight hair. Any good recommendations?

He’s beefy!

My sister and brother-in-law live in the Keller area, and I’m looking for restaurant recommendations for a Christmas gift. I’ve done Reata in the past and I’m looking for similarly priced/quality options. Anywhere in the Keller/Southlake/NRH/etc area is good. Thanks!

Anyone get gas at the Kroger on rufe snow and n tarrant around 11/9 and have problems?

Where are some good jewelry stores to check out wedding rings!

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.

"Are you looking for information on Voting and Voter Registration? We can help! Join us for an open house-type event where you can stop by get voter registration forms, confirm if you're already registered to vote, learn about what forms of ID you need to and more! Join us for this FREE event!"

https://www.facebook.com/share/upsvi2SW28Y2sq2K/

Hi!! I am looking for a teenage patient 13-17 to complete my requirements for dental hygiene school. There are appointments on Mondays and Wednesdays from 8:15-11:30 or 1:00-4:30. We do cleanings, exams, x-rays, and sealants. It is located at the TCC clinic at Tarrant County College in Hurst. If anyone's interested, please reach out! I am having a hard time finding a teenager to come. Thanks!!

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.

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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