(Clark) Kent Fischer: School Tosses 4 Dumpsters of Books
Submitted by Allen Gwinn on Thu, 11/13/2008 - 20:13.
With district brass taking a machete to spending, you'd think campus leaders would be scrimping and saving and making use of every available resource. Right?
So what's up with Burnet Elementary School filling four dumpsters with hundreds and hundreds of Open Court SRA reading workbooks? Many of the books were still in cellophane, meaning they landed in the dumpsters before they ever made it into a classroom.
Witness the carnage, courtesy of reporter Dan X. McGraw...
Hold principal accountable for the dumping of books!
Why are we not holding the principals of schools responsible such as in the Burnet and Hexter dumpings? Amazing what DISD gets away with and we the parents seem to let it go by like nothing happened? Why are more not talking this up with all the abuses happening to damage our children?
who is really held accountable
phiat
In the Burnet Book Dump the principal is the one who should be held at fault but some how words were twisted and it fell on the custodial staff - it is being said that they misunderstood- how can that be when they only followed direct orders.
Burnet Book Dump
That is how it always goes. Unfortunately, DISD has trained its administrators to throw anyone under the bus they can. Deny, deny, deny. Yet, they always want to talk about accountability and The Question Behind the Question. Give me a huge break.
Hexter?
What got dumped at Hexter? I never heard that one.
Dumping of files at Hexter!
I knew former Principal Ms. Knee, good principal when my child was there, but I have not kept up with Hexter principal's since then, and I know Hexter is a clean good looking campus, but that does not excuse the head master from personal files that were dumped in the dumpster. Again, principals for the most part do well, but these dumpster issues, both should have never taken place if rules were in place and followed. It's like a good manager watching out over the company employee's no different here. The rule should be simple between custodians and the principal and the problem would have never taken place.
Dumping
There wasn't a "dumping" at Hexter, per se. There was an information "leak" that was fairly embarrassing. It was accidental. The principal there is a good person.
Allen, please, being a "good person" gives the Hexter principal
the right to put peoples personal history at stake for any dumpster diver to see and perhaps benefit from? I do think we agree Hexter has been a good school in the neighborhood consistantly year after year, but one's personal records should never be exposed without their permission. Can you imagine the damage that could have been done in the wrong hands? Simple rules in place could have prevented a huge blow to many people's lives and that is what is at the core of DISD's problems, not even getting these simple things performed correctly, which leads to much bigger porblems. Enough said!
Hexter Info Leak
Oh, don't get me wrong. This was definitely an error! Something happened that shouldn't have.
But please, folks, never attribute to malice that which is attributable to human error.
The question I would pose is: was it an intentional act?
No.
I do agree that a really good course on "information security" is well in order.
Hexter Hoopla
Why does being a good person release administrators from the obligation to be good stewards and perform responsibly and competently?
SRA's
I grew up reading these. I loved them they are what gave me the love of reading. What a shame something so wonderful is not used.