Eye have been asked...

Why publish this post? Why dig up the past? Why ask these questions that could contribute to ill will in the educational community?

Why publish this post? Frustration of not being heard. There are people who do not want to face the change in this district that is coming. They are happy doing things the way they always have and will dig their heels in to keep it the same and keep their power. Change needs to be faced head on. It needs to be molded by right minded people. If change is allowed to happen un-checked, it usually results in change for the worse. We as a community cannot afford this. If by publishing this blog, the change becomes positive, then it has been a worthwhile endeavor.

Why dig up the past? "Those that do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it."


Why ask these questions that could contribute to "ill-will" in the educational community?
The "ill-will" is only going to come from those that feel threatened. Hiring a superintendent that has no ties to this community is going to cause a MAJOR shuffling of the pecking order in the district. There are adminstrators and teachers who just won't be able to handle this. They have sucked up to the past administration to gain favor and privilege....AND....what if the new superintendent makes the administrators and teachers actually accountable for teaching..... and results!!!! THE HORROR!!!!! They may have to actually work!...and THAT is the crux.

ONCE again....

the platitudes and gratitudes must be handed out for the retiring superintendent. What will the "Sealy News" have to write about after he is gone on to his so-called "real estate" career. Will they write a story about his first successful real estate deal? It seems the schoolboard must make the retiring super feel good about himself by having a retirement ceremony. Does anyone remember last spring's HEATED school board election where the current regime tried to stack the board with their cronies to save their jobs? We all read about it in the paper, didn't we? After the results, the retiree was unceremoniously kicked out the door but we are going to give him a ceremony now. So be it. Let's all make nice and pretend it didn't happen. This town is very good at doing that. Am Eye the only one who is curious about the circumstances that have brought us to this point? Eye don't think so. Will the whole story ever come out? Maybe, maybe not. As Eye have stated before, ask your own questions, do your own research.

Can Eye get in on this?

Eye really would like to have my back slapped. Can some one give me an "attaboy" or a "way to go?" Eye want my credit for getting the new high school built. There seems to be an over abundance of self congratulating going on with the new facility. Is it built? Yes. Was it needed? Yes. My feeling was and is...that it was built in spite of all the financial finagling that went on along the way, reported and unreported, to the general public. Do you own research, ask your own questions. Right now everyone seems to have the attitude " Look how great we are! We built a new school! Aren't we wonderful? Please...tell me again how impressed you are with us!"
As far as Eye'm concerned though, it is like putting lipstick on a pig. It looks different, but it is still a pig. Until what goes on inside the hallowed walls of the new high school improves, the stench of an educationally underperforming district will remain.