Early TAKS Testing Results Show Significant Improvement at All Forney ISD Schools

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) began releasing the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) testing results on Friday, May 15, and the preliminary review of the numbers suggest that Forney ISD will be rated a Recognized district for 2009.
The final individual school and district ratings won’t be released by the TEA until August [...]

Bullying in FISD – The Victims

As I started research for this series of articles, I was struck by many things, the first being the stereotype most people assign to the victims of bullying in general.  The typical assumption is that these children must be weaklings and loners with some identifiable flaw whether it be physical, intellectual or social.  It is easy to [...]

Bullying in FISD – The Problem

“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that’s the essence of inhumanity.”
-George Bernard Shaw

The Center for Disease Control reports that over 5.7 million teens in the United States, or more than 30% are estimated to be involved in bullying as bully, victim, or both. Even the CDC [...]

Former Forney ISD Soccer Coach & Teacher Receives 10 Year Sentence for Child Pornography

Robert Lamascus, who most recently worked at Frisco High School from August 2005 until February 2007, was sentenced earlier this month to 10 years in federal prison, a $3,000 fine and 7 years of supervised release after the completion of his prison term. Federal agents executed search warrants at his residence in Aubrey, Texas on [...]

Forney High School #2 Virtual Tour & Sketches Available

Forney ISD has posted sketches and a virtual tour created by the architect designing Forney ISD’s new, second high school. The school looks beautiful, and will be a wonderful addition to the community. In addition to the electronic textbook program, the design of the school incorporates quite a few modern elements and the latest technology, [...]

New School Names Announced; Dallas Morning News Article on Forney

I just noticed that the FISD Board of Trustees selected the names of 2 elementary schools to be built, and named the 2 middle schools. I’ve been curious to see if one middle school remained “Forney Middle School” and the other was named after a person, or if there was a “North FMS” and “South [...]