After reading the local 'read' this past weekend I finally felt like some sensible thinking was taking place. The PISD school board actually talked about spending the excess reserve they have been stealing from taxpayers pockets for years. The way I understand it through the years the taxpayers should have been receiving from the PISD a reduced property tax rate. However, the PISD school board chose to take your hard earned money and place it in their own bank account rather than reduce your tax rate and let you keep your money. Still ticked at how they arrived at such a large reserve in which the PISD over budgeted expenses and under spent the budget on purpose to create the large reserve balance. Anything left unspent at the end of the year from what I understand is required to be moved into the reserve fund. Also I understand that this is a typical practice for most school districts across the state. School districts create their own slush funds!
Now the PISD feels the need to reduce the reserve and use it on construction projects and building updates. This is sensible thinking on their part. Should have been thinking this way all along. However, I did read with interest the article and it called for a 'multi-purpose' facility. Folks this is a CODE NAME for NEW Gymnasium and athletic facility. We need to be using that 'slush fund' on brain power, i.e. math, science, reading, writing, etc. From the coffee shop roundtables I understand this high school produces non-prepared advanced education material. I have to say I witnessed this first hand when a friend of mine asked me to read his grandchild's paper written for an advanced English class. Now I am no expert in writing, grammar, etc.; however, I can say that based upon what I reviewed his grandchild was not going to be prepared to do college level work. If advanced educational institutions have reduced their standards then his grandchild might have a shot. I would like to add that this is not only a problem ingrained here in the PISD for it is with most school districts across this state. The level of instructions has become 'thinned' to the point of no substance.
CODE NAME Gymnasium usually equals 'multi-purpose facility'. The PISD school board could be setting the taxpayers up for a future bond election. They could also be setting you up for an election to raise the local property tax rate as well from $1.04 to $1.05 +. Be on your toes for Twi-lite Super has a history of raising tax rates to fund pet projects, i.e. 'multi-purpose facility'. Keep a watchful eye on how your funds are spent. If such an election should come to pass then you will be required to make a decision. Be ready if such should come to pass!
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Sneaking and conniving is the name of Twi-lite Super's game. If it involves athletics she is all out for it.
If it involves academics she has not a clue of what needs to be done.
Once again, until we expect more, and really want more, we deserve what we get.
Our young people will reap the harvest from the seeds that we are sowing.
Will our crop be a failure?
Our Money is to be congratulated for seeing through the smoke screen laid down by Twi-lite Super.
This is another attempt from her bag of tricks of duplicity to attempt to promote athletics.
Anything for the coaches and athletics has her committed support.
She needs a close scrutinization from the Office of Civil Rights that would allow her to inject her "spin" and explain all the different inequities throughout PISD.
The closer examined, the more discrepancies that would be found.
After the OCR finished with PISD they could go to Twi-lite Super's former school and find the same problems.
Her track record speaks for itself.
That "multi-purpose facility" could be funded from the fund balance.
Our goofy school board would fall for that trick again. That is how the luxurious improvements to the football field and the new field house were made.
What do we elect board members for? There is one loud mouthed clown still on the board that fell for the trick last time.
That is probably Twi-lite Super's scheme to acquire an athletic edifice that she can call her own.
She knows she can not pass a bond election because enough of our taxpayers have found her out.
She built a similar facility at her former school with tax dollars that were appropriated for other projects.
That brings up the subject of fund balance or "slush fund" that has been questionably obtained through projecting enormous expenses over actual needs in the annual PISD budget.
We, as the taxpayers, allow this to happen year after year.
It will be interesting to watch the conniving as this plan is played out.
Ir is rumored that the "multi-purpose facility" is a done deal. The ground work was established outside of the board meetings and the school board bought it hook, line, and sinker.
Now Twi-lite Super is working on big raises for the AD and assistant AD. They have let it be known that there could possibly be a job offering from another school.
This puts doting Twi-lite in a panic to get them the raises that she wants them to have. Nothing has been said about raises for anyone else.
There is an OCR regional office in Dallas.
Way to go PISD! You know what we need and you are making Pittsburg a better place to live. Keep up the great work!
Cant wait for Roe's long letter to the editor that no one reads! Keep it up guys! Maybe one day someone will hear your far off thoughts!
They already have heard.
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