An audio recording is circulating of Sharpstown principal Thomas “T.J.” Cotter absolutely screaming at a select group of students about their use of cell phones, earbuds and the wearing of crocs. Violate the policies and they’ll get Saturday detention. There is nowhere else they can go in Houston ISD where...
An audio recording is circulating of Sharpstown principal Thomas “T.J.” Cotter absolutely screaming at a select group of students about their use of cell phones, earbuds and the wearing of crocs. Violate the policies and they’ll get Saturday detention.
Superintendent Mike Miles has previously conceded that some of his principals and other administrators might be overzealous in applying his New Education System policies. Is this a case of a principal under pressure overreacting right after he got a visit from central office? Any school district always has a certain amount of angst going on at any time among parents and staff but with what seems to be a record-setting amount at HISD right now, where can parents appeal to?.
There is a way to get to know them. It involves watching them go through the kind of group exercises that can be tedious to endure but are oh so revealing about what they think now and where they are heading. On February 1, eight of the nine board members sat in a nearly vacant room and what followed was refreshingly open and light years from their board meetings.
Except that's a violation of the open meetings law as Board attorney Catosha Woods promptly told them. All discussions of matters on the agenda should be done as a group in open meetings, she said. Oh. “Wanting to protect the level of decorum in the board room because students are watching the board meetings and we want to make sure that students can watch the board meetings," Arnold explained."And parents can let their students watch the board meetings without reservation. So we’d like to protect that spirit of decorum if possible.” Wow, public meetings held to a PG rating level?
The workshop trainer Ashley Paz told the group that it was important that members of the public feel they can speak up without fear that they are jeopardizing their social status. She applauded them for their willingness to listen to the community. Everyone gave the amens, but a recurring theme at board meetings is a member of the audience saying they are speaking on behalf of a teacher who is afraid to do so out of fear of retaliation.
A further argument was advanced that by having long meetings, candidates for an elected school board would be discouraged from applying knowing it would be too time-consuming. History would indicate otherwise; it’s one of those observations that sounds helpful and logical, whether it is or not. And best filed under patronizing and condescending.
This is a school that has a lot of volunteer groups come in during the day, which won't be allowed with NES until after classes end for the day, the teacher said. Parties have to be before school, after school or at lunch."Nobody's going to be eating pizza and drinking soda at 6:30 in the morning."
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