SperlingViews - Raton, New_mexico
76.64% of people are white, 0.30% are black, 0.45% are asian, 1.93% are native american, and 20.68% claim 'Other'. 59.29% of the people in Raton, NM, claim hispanic ethnicity (meaning 40.71% are non-hispanic).
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A lot of fighting in the lower grades - 5/30/2009
Wow when I moved here I thought what a beautiful place to live, until I heard the second and third graders swearing at each other at the bus stop and broke up three fistfights in one month. That's when I decided to drive my kids to school instead of subjecting them to the behavior at the bus stops.[read more...] |
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Do you like teacher's wearing flip flops at school - 5/30/2009
Well Raton does. The teacher's do not have a dress code. Yet the students are not allowed to wear headband's in the middle school or hoodies. I guess some students were wearing gang colored headband's and instead of the school district saying "no gang paraphanelia" they thought it was a better idea to not allow headband's.
This town is really backwards sometimes.[read more...] |
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Very high electric rates - 5/30/2009
My family just moved to Raton from Michigan in November '09 and the electric rates are outrageous. I can not get our monthly electricity bill below $125 and in Michigan I could average about $60 a month in the summer.[read more...] |
