TEA takes over BISD and dissolves school board……. again

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[thetragichippy]

I did a little research....

There are 1207 ISD's in Texas - in recent history 15 have been took over by the TEA - Beaumont TWICE.  The school district is basically blaming the parents, I can't count the number of "it starts at home" comments I read last night. While I agree it starts at home, for me, it is difficult to NOT blame BISD when of the 1207 districts, 1192 OTHER districts have not had to be bailed out. 

So one of two things are true, Beaumont has horrible parents as a whole that does not care about their kids, or BISD has poor leadership and is not doing what it should to make sure the kids get the proper education that the tax payers are paying for.......I'll go with the latter.......

[thetragichippy]

and in other news, BISD according to Google AI, is the only school district to be taken over TWICE by the TEA........

[baddog]

36 minutes ago, thetragichippy said:

and in other news, BISD according to Google AI, is the only school district to be taken over TWICE by the TEA........

Is Beaumont going to have another Weekend Update skit mention on SNL?

[tvc184]

1 hour ago, thetragichippy said:

I did a little research....

There are 1207 ISD's in Texas - in recent history 15 have been took over by the TEA - Beaumont TWICE.  The school district is basically blaming the parents, I can't count the number of "it starts at home" comments I read last night. While I agree it starts at home, for me, it is difficult to NOT blame BISD when of the 1207 districts, 1192 OTHER districts have not had to be bailed out. 

So one of two things are true, Beaumont has horrible parents as a whole that does not care about their kids, or BISD has poor leadership and is not doing what it should to make sure the kids get the proper education that the tax payers are paying for.......I'll go with the latter.......

Probably 15 years ago I heard Bill O’Reilly make a comment about this.

His comment was something like, “Sure it should start at home. Yes there are some parents that do not do a good job. Should we simply abandon the children with bad parents?”. 

[bullets13]

4 hours ago, thetragichippy said:

I did a little research....

There are 1207 ISD's in Texas - in recent history 15 have been took over by the TEA - Beaumont TWICE.  The school district is basically blaming the parents, I can't count the number of "it starts at home" comments I read last night. While I agree it starts at home, for me, it is difficult to NOT blame BISD when of the 1207 districts, 1192 OTHER districts have not had to be bailed out. 

So one of two things are true, Beaumont has horrible parents as a whole that does not care about their kids, or BISD has poor leadership and is not doing what it should to make sure the kids get the proper education that the tax payers are paying for.......I'll go with the latter.......

The school district taught most of their parents, too.

[bullets13]

Change has been needed for a long time. After the first takeover the community voted back in the same idiots who'd presided over the disaster originally. It's hard to help people who won't help themselves. The amount of quality teachers that have left the district in the last 15 years is staggering. There were 28 classrooms at the campus I taught at in Beaumont. I left 4 1/2 years ago, and there are only 9 teachers left from when I taught there. How does a school have a 66% turnover rate in less than 5 years? I'll tell you how... an awful administration and lack of teacher support. On that whole campus there are 6 teachers with more than 6 years of teaching experience. At my new campus in another district there are also 28 teachers. 20 of us have more than 6 years experience. We have 12 teachers with 20 years of experience or more. Keep in mind that this district pays significantly less that BISD. There are dozens of teachers of the year in this area that spent time in Beaumont who took pay cuts to work elsewhere. If I'd been treated decently I would've worked my entire career at the school I started at. I loved my job, but hated the situation. BISD needs a complete overhaul, starting at the top.