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Make the time, Mr. Bechtol.
Recently, a Westlake High School (WHS) parent searched
for help by googling the following words: eanes
drop out prevention.
The search yielded a link to the
Texas Education Agency (TEA) webpage that listed Bill
Bechtol as the Eanes ISD contact for at-risk/drop-out
prevention.
The Eanes ISD parent then contacted Mr. Bechtol with a
pressing need for help and information and received the
following response:
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Bechtol [mailto:bbechtol@eanesisd.net]
Sent: November 2008
To: <parent's name redacted>
Subject: RE: <child's name redacted> -Responsive
Services Counseling
Mr. <parent's name redacted>,
I will not be able to meet with you today nor do I have time
to share how
the counseling staff has intervened on behalf of
<child's name redacted>.
Sincerely,
Bill Bechtol
Related information and links:
Under the leadership of the Eanes ISD
superintendent, Nola Wellman,
Eanes
ISD moved at-risk students and other special needs children
to portables while simultaneously
installing three fields of artificial turf. The
at-risk program (The Learning Center - TLC) is limited to
11th and 12th grade and has a long waiting list.
At-risk students in lower grades are
effectively cleansed from the district
as they must leave to home school or
private school when the district callously refuses to meet
their needs.
The district further applies pressure
by threatening criminal truancy charges against parents and
at-risk children who are in precarious emotional, academic
and social circumstances. Eanes ISD parents who have
experienced the district's actions have identified
patterns and
practices in the district's response, and as a result,
are convinced that
this "cleansing"
of children is intentional.
The children who are pushed out are then replaced with
carefully screened out of district transfers to protect the
district's ratings instead of the
children.
Make the time, Mr. Bechtol.