Monday, February 1, 2010
Education dispute
A number of disputes in education pit parents' and citizens' groups against professional educators. Citizens' groups assert that schools are public institutions that should be governed by the local citizenry through their elected representatives. Sad to say that most of the folks you elect to school boards immediately become hijacked by the professional educator. In the 20th century, the school superintendent and his or her administrative assistants came to exercise more and more control over operations of the school. The superintendent has assumed much of the policy making. The superintendent receives direct advice from attorneys, architects, accountants, and educational consultants, and generally sets the agenda for school board meetings. The superintendent has become the unelected board President. It is sad that we have let our schools be taken over by the professional administrator. Our state constitution mandated local control and not professional control.
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PISD's incompetent Twi-lite Super is a prime example of what you are addressing.
$110,000 annually to a (know-nothing but conniving) elementary principal is a travesty to sound use of our taxpayer's dollars.
Board members are elected to represent us and keep such absurd things from happening.
Twi-lite is the football coach, principal for all the schools, and now she is the school board president.
She is everything but a superintendent. Cut her loose and let her go back where she came from.
Let her work for a school that she helps pay taxes for.
a perfect example is when Mr. Parker was elected to the board, Twi-lite sent two coaches to find out how they could help his daughter get a fastpitch scholarship. Immediately money went to the county park to upgrade the field and build a batting cage. Twi-lite then started using school funds paying user fee to the county. Where the girls had always played before this was in closr proximity to the school, right next to the boy's big green monster. Guess what?, Mr. Parker began voting right along with Mr.'s Carter and Brison, the ones he said was a bunch of idiots and he could not understand how they made the lame brained decisions they made. This is what happens when ones with little or no education are elected and can be easily led to the dark side.
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