By:Travis McGee
Take everything away is what the letters stand for if you ask most parents, taxpayers, students, or educators. The sole purpose of the T.E.A. takeover was to improve student performance. If the T.E.A is allowed to evaluate and grade themselves I seriously
doubt they will admit that they have ruined Texas largest school dis- trict in less than 2 short years. Who’s holding T.E.A accountable for experimenting on both our kids and educators with experiments like N.E.S also known as the Not Even Sure System.
Not even sure that it will work, however it takes up a third of the total budget. Since they arrival it’s been plenty of questionable hiring practices that basically brought any and ev- erybody in with large amounts of money weather qualified, unqualified, certified or uncertified in some case background checks can be questioned also.
Since the T.E.A arrival it has been all about money and real-estate. Money is being spent, property is being sold, and more surplus property will be created from school closures. We all should be concerned about the all the money being spent since 90% comes directly from our taxes dollars and less than 10% come the state of Texas. We have paid for our schools whether opened or closed time and time again, but we have very little input of what should happen to the property or what we want to see replace OUR school properties vs. GENTRIFICATION on steroids.
The T.E.A wasn’t made possible by Bad Schools, but instead by very bad Legislation that was voted on blindly by our ELECTED EMPLOYEES, so they say without fully understanding the consequences of their very ill-advised vote that would allow the T.E.A. to have full total control over the Largest School district in Texas with zero oversight or accountability. They have full control over the money, our tax dollars, surplus property, recapture, day to day operations, and much more.
