From the coffee shop round table in a rural area of Camp County it is reported that Twi-lite Super has now taken on the task of PISD Chief Investigator displacing the PISD school police officer. Two incidents were discussed at the round table. One incident involved two PISD star football players who were pulled over by local law enforcement after the LE game in October. The two star players were in possession of alcohol while driving. The two had just left the school parking lot; therefore, they were in possession of alcohol on school property unless they can prove otherwise. Not only were state laws violated, but local school policy was violated as well. It was reported that Twi-lite Super took over the investigation and as of this date no results have been released. If these violations are true then the two should be suspended from extra-curricular activities, i.e. football team, and suspended from school. By letting this slide you are doing these young men no favor in the grand scheme of life. Integrity in the individual and the program mean more than a football championship. You have a chance at a learning moment in a young persons life and tough love is the only option.
The other incident discussed concerns a theft by a student from a teachers purse. The teacher confronted the student, and the confrontation upset the parents of the student. They complained and Twi-lite Super in her new role as Chief Investigator for PISD was on the case. In the end the campus principle and Twi-lite Super turned their back on the teacher and the teacher immediately tenured her resignation. I don't know the teacher personally, but in conversation when I ask about the teacher I am told that she is a good teacher with no integrity issues. It is reported the family from which the teacher comes is an outstanding local family with no integrity issues. Twi-lite Super is/was willing to let star football players off the hook; therefore, one can conclude where the integrity issue lies.
Twi-lite Super is all this true? If this is true then why are these issues being covered up, not spoken about from a school officials view, etc. Don't give us the spill that they are students and their privacy is protected. You can address these issues without violating the privacy of these students. The public has a right to know and you have an obligation as PISD Chief Administrator to find a way to communicate to the public.
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The two students automatically became ineligible for further participation on the football team for a minimum of thirty days. This should have been the length of alternative school placement.
The team, school, and community will be the losers if any of this is reported to the UIL and the truth is told.
All games played by these two students after the offense would have to be forfeited.
There is much more at risk here than just a hushed cover-up.
If we truly deserve more we must expect more from the individuals entrusted with the leadership of our schools and community.
Do we really expect more? Do we know what more is?
The teacher in question must have been on the "hit list" of either the superintendent or board member(s).
This the way personnel matters are handled at PISD.
One staff member is terminated (forced to hand in a resignation) for a certain offense while another staff member is moved to another campus until things cool off. It is a mystery why both employees are dealt with differently when they basically did the same thing.
Where is the equity in our current system?
No one ever asks why. Parents do not ask why when their child is disciplined differently than an athlete who has committed the same offense.
One student goes to alternative school for 30 days for having unauthorized prescription drugs on campus and an athlete with someone else's pills on campus gets three days of ISS and never misses a ballgame.
Fairness?
Our leaders need a lesson in federal court.
We are paying big bucks for this three-ring-circus. Are we not smart enough to see what is going on?
Once again, do we really know what "more" is?
It has recently been brought to my attention that the football team is in the process of advancing in the playoffs with three ineligible players that are starters.
Two of the players had alcohol on campus and did not receive any punishment from the school district. This offense is a mandatory 30 day assignment to the district's alternative school.
Another player had prescription pills that belonged to another student. This player received in-school-suspension for three days.
Not one of the three missed a game.
Does our next opponent know that we do not follow the rules and play ineligible players?
A wise old coach used to say that he had rather lose with class than win with trash.
Somehow this seems to make more sense now.
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