Yes, Cafeterias, Auditoriums, Restrooms, all based on original estimates of school population and don't forget how custodial staff, administrative staff and clerical staff are all based on quite an enrollment spread in allocations, never taking into consideration placement of buildings, portable or otherwise.

Portables are misnamed as is evident at Hill.

Nothing Portable about them according to Mr. Anderson.

Perhaps the folk in the Hill neighborhood should take lessons from John Price and the Warriors and do some baby stepping.

Phone calls to downtown every day over everything from litter to gangs driving by.

A few well placed visits from the fire marshals and health department seems effective as well.

[Ed Note: OK, first two lessons: (1) protests don't work; (2) when governmental agencies "fight" each other, there is a lot of sabre rattling and "harsh words" but nothing ever comes of it.

There are two weapons that Dallas voters have at their disposal: (1) "un-electing" officials who let their administrators run amok and (2) voting down the upcoming bond proposal--not to punish the administration, but to inform them that they're not ready for that kind of responsibility yet.

The decision to move 6th grade to Middle School was horribly planned--and it was not a mandate; it was something DISD administration decided to do on their own. It's starting to look like there was very little in the way of infrastructure planning done, and several neighborhoods (not just Hill) may well end up suffering for the lack of planning.

I'm by no means trying to discourage you from calling Code Compliance or the Fire Department at every available opportunity. I'm just saying that, in the long run, this will not change the essence of DISD's administration...

...which is what really needs to be done.]