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Hey wait.... maybe Beaumont is that good. I see that Port Arthur just had a magazine (must be the same magazine) rate that city as one of the top 5 small cities in Texas to live in.
 
http://www.12newsnow.com/story/24883432/port-arthur-named-5th-best-small-texas-city
 
 
Maybe we are just missing the point on BISD and they are really awesome.  :D

.... as a failure. 
 
I remember all the gloating a few months ago because some magazine rated BISD as something like one of the top 10 districts in the nation. Now it appears as though they are the only district in the entire state that has not been accredited. 

Here is the problem that I have with the often stated, "If they are old enough" answers.
 
Because a very limited few people volunteer to take a risk, do you really want to be on the roads with a new crop of 17 year old kids that can now legally drink? It seems that we are trying to lump all people in with a few that are willing and mature enough to serve their country.
 
The "old enough" arguments really have no bearing on reality of life. 
 
Also for those putting their lives on the line, I believe that once outside of the country, 18 is the minimum wage. A cook in the Air Force that never leaves TX is hardly putting his life on the line. If called to duty overseas, then he can drink at 18 when he actually is "putting his life on the line". 
 
To take the reverse of the very few that are willing to take the risk and therefore "all" 17 or 18 year old people should be able to do whatever, think of this. In TX you can be criminally certified as an adult at 14 years old. Although it is only a limited few people have that happens to (just like joining the military), it is possible for any child so let's just lower all ages to 14. Perhaps we should then end child molesting if the "child" is at least 14 and consents to sex. So if the 35 year old neighbor talks your 14 year old daughter into sex, who cares? A 14 year old can go to prison so no matter how immature, they should be able to consent to anything... right? How about a 15 year old signing a contract? And if they can do all of these things that they have been deemed by some as having earned by age, can the parents legally abandon them at those ages? 
 
The "old enough" argument, while on the face of it seems interesting, opens up a can of worms that a majority of people will think is ludicrous. 

.......... and what was happening. Unless his job as the person that is second in charge of a huge district with hundreds of employees is only to play tiddlywinks in his office while Rome burns, he had to know that something was amiss. He might not have known about any criminality but he must have been blind or completely uncaring if he couldn't see millions of dollars disappearing and improprieties happening. 
 
It is not like this was a stunning set of revelations. The accusations of wrong doing and/or poor management have been there for years but because it may have some from the wrong neighborhood, it was ignored (and still is) under the guise of racism. 

I have no doubt that some are having the same conversations. The difference is that in some communities, speaking out against the party line will draw immediate and vile accusations that most are not willing to face and it will come from within that very community. 

Just like with Calvin Walker cheating them out of millions of dollars and even when discovered, they wash their hands of it, act like it never happened and then renew the same criminal's contract. 
 
Of course their, "Let's live and let live" attitude might change if the people involved were of a different demographic. It is sometimes amazing how quick the same people are to point fingers when it is someone else and completely dismiss it if it involves "your own". 
 
Gwen Ambres is a perfect example of someone not liking the good ol' boys club until she in the the club and why BISD cannot and will not solve their own problems until someone forces it or takes over. 

I have read two articles about this poll and the report or the responses make excuses about people needing to actually be here to know what it is like. Maybe like outside press is hurting us.
 
In both articles that I have read, apparently the people are missing the part that says they gathered the data by calling people in the actual area and asking how it was. This was not one of those polls where somebody or group in a room tucked away in Des Moines, IA made some kind of arbitrary decision based on perception. They called the people "here" and got the negative responses. 

Yep, I understand that. Just like I can be suspended from work for something that is not even a crime. 
 
But in this case, they took a guy's livelihood away for at least three years for something that is a crime. His claim in the media is that the other person "recanted". That means the person made a second statement that the first statement was false. 
 
That leads me to only two questions. If she actually recanted or claimed that it never happened, why would he then sign a document admitting guilt or is he simply lying and the "victim" did not recant the story?

Yep, I understand that. Just like I can be suspended from work for something that is not even a crime. 
 
But in this case, they took a guy's livelihood away for at least three years for something that is a crime. His claim in the media is that the other person "recanted". That means the person made a second statement that the first statement was false. 
 
That leads me to only two questions. If she actually recanted or claimed that it never happened, why would he then sign a document admitting guilt or is he simply lying and the "victim" did not recant the story?

So now the hired/fired/now suing future/past head coach for Ozen says that Chargois discussed his previous suspension and HR, AD and Ozen principal may have been in the room.
 
The question that I had as a police officer was that if the state suspended Atkins' teaching license, why wasn't he charged in a crime? Now Atkins says that the suspension was dropped after the student recanted the story and that was discussed in his hiring process.
 
And now he is going to sue probably the district and Chargois personally.
 
And the hits just keep on comin'...........
 
 
http://www.12newsnow.com/story/25096759/coach-accuses-beaumont-isd-superintendent-of-lying-in-hiring-fumble

It appears that much of the opinions that take up for BISD's transgressions is melanin based. 

It appears that much of the opinions that take up for BISD's transgressions is melanin based. 

I think that Vidor finally found themselves a real rival.
 
The commute is going to be a killer though.  :D

I am not so sure that I would want him appearing either at the city's festival. His language alone is enough for me to keep him away. 
 
At a concert for paying customers that is not associated with the city, great. I'll bet that the Nederland Heritage Festival would not want him at one of their open air and free concerts with his continuous use of the F-Bomb and other such tidbits. 
 
I agree with him on most of his political stances and in particular most of his pro-gun and anti-Obama rants but it is still not what I want an 8 year old kid to listen to or to have the city endorse. If a private promoter wants to bring him in just for a concert, go for it. 

I have to work right at two and a half months to make the same thing on the taxpayer's dollar. I would rather simply not show up one day and get the same thing. 
 
I am liking that idea. 

You bet they do. 
 
They want to live in a reasonably peaceful environment and have their kids actually graduate school with the ability to read and write basic English. They will drive where they have to in order to earn a living and then return to their safer haven. 
 
 But not so long many of those people that live in BC, Lumberton, Orangefield, etc., lived in Beaumont, PA and Orange. They didn't leave the city, the city and school districts left them.

We always bring that up when called to some houses about their 15 year old daughter and her 15 year old boyfriend.
 
Really, do you want us to arrest your daughter for the felony? Nope, just the guy.  :rolleyes:

That is correct.
 
 
Complain to your congressman. They pass the laws.  :)

Feel free to do anything that you believe you can get away with.
 
TX law does not allow deadly force for trespassing and this kid was not even doing that. 
 
I have a hard time wondering why so many are fervently defending the father for killing what we know was an innocent kid. Maybe the kid lunged for the gun and caused his own death but short of that, I can't see a justification for killing him. 
 
I can just about assure you that if this kid was the child of a parent in this forum, we should be seeing a huge difference and outcry on how a person that was guilty of nothing but having a stupid girlfriend got the death sentence by a guy that was in such fear for his child that he left the room to go get a gun and come back. If I thought that a guy was armed and a danger to my child, I have a hard time believing that I would leave the room, probably with my child in there that I claim that I am worried about. 
 
Yes I am looking at it from a law enforcement standpoint and the law and I have said more than once this guy will probably get away with the shooting but that does not mean that what he did was right or legal. 

And anyone shooting his daughter's boyfriend should expect to go to jail for murder. 
 
Not liking someone is not justified grounds for homicide. 

.... or Obama during the campaign telling Putin on an open mic that he can work with him a lot more when he wins reelection. 
 
I wonder how that is working out for their relationship?

When I first started voting, there was no early voting unless you signed a waiver saying that you would be out of town on election day. It was not "early" voting, it was "absentee" voting. 
 
Then you had to vote on election day. 
 
Now they send out mail ballots where you really don't know who sent it back, many days to vote, complaints about showing an ID, etc. 
 
I don't care who votes but some people are trying to make it easier and easier to skew the results and if you complain, you are trying to disenfranchise someone. The Democrats appear to want to make it where the less verification there is, the better. 

Yes it is, especially when they are playing the Longhorns.

That is why I said "I think". 
 
I usually choose my words carefully and watch what I commit to.  ;)

So 163 views of a thread titled soccer standings in a little over 24 hours doesn't prove there is an interest in a soccer subforum???