Why T.H. Rogers matters -- told by its former principal and parents who have been involved with it for years.
, Houston ISD is dismantling that vision piece by piece in a move to make T.H. Rogers a campus for Gifted and Talented students only. Last year, the district moved hearing-impaired students from T.H. Rogers to other schools.
"It's always a question for me when people flash the old 'least restrictive environment' card," said Muzyka."Tell me what the least restrictive environment is. Define that for me.
Several years ago, former T.H. Rogers teacher Samantha Smyth jumped at the chance when an opening for a special education teacher came up at T.H. Rogers, she said. More of their population were kids whose parents didn't want them to go to a regular high school, or they'd had a problem at their home school, she said."We almost functioned as a fixer school for a while," stressing that this didn't mean the kids were problems but that often their home schools weren't providing the services they needed or T.H. Rogers had better services.
Jones, who urges present Rogers parents to fight the plan to move all special education students to their home schools is also upset that the hearing impaired students and their teachers were moved out last year. Before coming to Rogers, Muzyka was a high school magnet coordinator at the High School For Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, and he would visit the campus to try to recruit eighth graders into their program. But until he came to work there he had no idea of the complexity of the world that was T.H. Rogers, he said. He relied heavily on the experienced staff for the answers he was seeking — a staff that in the same two areas as the reassigned students is being disbursed.
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