This is my principal. She helped so many students before me.. and influenced so many more.. sadly she was removed from being principal my senior year, and I remember the school spirit, and the vibes went down drastically... everybody hated the new faculties.. and we had just got a new school.. dr. Simmons will always be my principal she took care of her students and especially her football team. I miss those days at the old furr

Love & Respect for this Amazing woman.

the whte Lady version of JOE CLARK?

,Amen wish I could HEAR MORE IT WASN'T LONG ENOUGH

Of the ones that don't drop out, how many graduate? And of the ones that graduate, how many of them actually qualify for a high school diploma? A lot of graduations are a sham, and as soon as these kids are out of high school they end up in prison.

@bryfunkenstein

4 жыл бұрын

its not so many that drop out. the rate that on how many freshmen stay until graduation. one year i was there they took in almost a thousand freshmen but they graduate class is usually a lil over 200. they not dropping out as much as they are transferring out. Furr's issue is and will always be lack of anything for the kids to do...and this has trickled down to the feeder schools as well. you cant just house a bunch of teenagers in rooms all day and give them sub standard education. and past athletics there is nothing extracurricular that involves more than ten kids

From 2003 to 2006 the school was full of fights and drugs ... 2003 and before that it was worse ...

I graduated class of 03 I was a freshman when she started and it was Horrible them years I remember the riots and there was more the one person that got thrown threw a window with blood every where that's just an appetizer though LOL .

I graduated from this high school a few years before this principal arrived and remember many of the things that happened there. She isn't entirely wrong in that nobody wanted that position (I remember my freshman year there was no principal; but was never sure what the actual reasons were.) The gang violence there was composed entirely of the many neighborhoods that were zoned and bused to that school due to the growing Hispanic population. They named their gangs after their respective neighborhoods and assigned colors (red, black, blue, brown, gold) to signify their affiliation. She is right in that there were probably around a dozen or so gangs there, but it was just a bunch of idiot kids joining up and fighting others because they were the "other". It didn't have anything to do with dealing drugs or any other larger organized crime effort. There were beatings, shootings and stabbings on or around campus but that was mostly the extent of it to these kids, other than the robbery and theft. Some later progressed to murder and drive-bys and drug-running and armed robbery when they became too old to attend high school, I guess. I don't know if the school was considered a "dropout factory" compared to any of the other area schools at that time, but there were certainly a number of otherwise normal graduating students. I do remember one of the office's solution to the gang problem was to expel and transfer students to alternative schools, despite them being gang members or not, as disciplinary action. I wonder if that was a significant contributor to the dropout rate. (They also had a program for trouble-students called "boot camp" which was a class run by their growing ROTC staff. Then they got the bright idea to require all incoming freshmen to take ROTC. I don't know if that was considered an elective or if they substituted one of the academic courses.) As far as the 90% graduating rate mentioned above, I think has to do with the current campus being separated into a traditional high school and an alternative school.

@bryfunkenstein

7 жыл бұрын

ChargerBullet i was there at the same time. i might have a totally different take on it. one thing is the fact that THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO AT THE SCHOOL pass athletics. nothing... another thing...you would have to look at it with another persons eyes...they pitted hispanics against blacks. there were big differences on how things were handled. i saw the principal damn near trampled by DH/CP, but if 2 black kids have a fight school lock down. black kids had to beg for a black history program...when i was at 90% black PV and 65 % black Holland we had cinco de mayo celebrations every year. there was NO fine arts after a while and they fired GOOD band directors and replaced them with incompetent ones. what made the school worse was the fact that HISDs staff thought it would be a good idea for two neighborhoods who dont like each other bussed to the same school. Denver Harbor and Central Park had NO BUSINESS at Furr in the first place. i think DH was there to keep wheatley as black as possible (good luck) but they said 'overcrowding'...thats where all the 'gang' stuff started. you couldnt even eat properly at Furr. there was the free lunch line...snack bar...machines and thats it. thats a step BACKWARDS from Holland. you had kids walking around there hungry eating candy all day.... and Furr WAS NOT A DROPOUT FACTORY. not in the least. fact is, NOBODY WANTS TO GO THERE. the year they started the 'freshmen in ROTC thing they had 900 freshmen. they lost more than half the first semester due to TRANSFERS....not dropping out. how can you get a child to stay at a school that dont offer the MINIMUM amount of programs every other school in the district has to offer? no music: transfer no fine arts: transfer freshmen mandate for ROTC: transfer. there are WHOLE communities zoned to Furr who dont go there. im from pv and i know more than half of the kids out here dont go to furr. the only ones who do are mostly athlete alumni kids. the football team would go state if everybody wasnt running to ride the bench at northshore. barely can field a football team now... i went to more than one high school...every school i went to there was somebody there that was suppose to be at furr... The REAL issue with Furr which is the elephant in the room. there has never been a head principal of color...any color...EVER...at furr...ever...there may have been 20 white kids on the whole campus at any given time...even THEY saw that...

Trump should just send in the Feds, why try to save the list ones ?