re: #41 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Fort Bend ISD was the first school district I went to in Texas way back in 1973 and my mother absolutely HATED it with the heat of a billion suns. We’d just moved from Northern California and the culture shock was severe. They “tracked” junior high school students (where you went to classes with the same students on the same academic level) and my mother thought that was inappropriate. She was particularly livid that the junior high would not enroll me in home economics, because the guidance counselor said that was for “Mexican and black girls destined to become maids.”

I hated John Foster Dulles Junior High School and was glad to leave after four months. And yeah, it was seriously racist. Not that Klein High School was much better, although the current African-American mayor of Houston, Sylvester Turner, graduated from Klein in 1973.