purplepride said:
Also what is up with all the hate comments about Thomas and BISD. Some people just can't handle a little change, so now they want to dog BISD. Jealousy is a horrible thing. If you can't beat them nepotism always worked in the past.
You can't be serious. You actually think we're jealous of BISD? If we were jealous of BISD, we might actually like the fact that Dr. Cavness worked there.
We don't.
The Beaumont Independent School District is widely considered to be one of the most corrupt school districts in the state of Texas, and I am not opposed to that theory. I've forgotten which article listed it, but Carrol Thomas is the highest paid superintendent in the state, making more than the heads of districts with far more students, such as Cypress Fairbanks, Houston, and Dallas. The only reason that school district is even solvent is because of the state's ordering South Park to take it over, which effectively ruined education in that part of Beaumont as well. I made a post in the "Curl Retiring" thread cataloguing West Brook's consistently poor TEA Accountability Ratings. Central's and Ozen's are even worse.
What I've posted above doesn't even begin to account for all of the problems in that district. The only district in the area that I find to be even worse is PAISD.
If you really think BISD has anything to be jealous of, I suggest you look at the links below:
http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/local/79423617.html
http://www.setexasrecord.com/news/221228-fate-of-south-park-middle-school-now-in-judges-hands
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/account/ (just search for "Beaumont")
If you really think the posters are jealous of BISD, then I suggest you take a look at some of these links:
http://www.boards.pngindians.com/index.php/topic,1448.0.html
http://www.boards.pngindians.com/index.php/topic,1425.msg20471.html#msg20471 (look at the 2nd page)