Hey, teaching is another job lots of Americans won’t do. Folks are leaving in droves cuz the kids are brats who want grades without doing the work, plus they cuss, threaten, fight, and beat up teachers. Not enough money to pay for that kind of crap.

My daughter attended a TAG (talented and gifted) school in the Garland ISD (a Dallas suburb) which was a fabulous school. The district was a paragon of efficiency compared to DISD and we were very happy with our daughter’s educational experience there. I know a lot of people in the Dallas area make fun of Garland but we were impressed with how well-run the city and the district were. Garland is the largest school district in the area after Dallas and has a large minority population as well but they seemed to be able to figure out how to run things successfully without all the ridiculous drama.

Any Texans wanna comment on what the schools are doing?

I will make a suggestion… Start running for the School Board in your State and get these REJECTS out of your schools!!!!

upinak on November 14, 2008 at 12:46 PM

Upinak, if only! Dallas (I live here) has been completely overrun by identity politics. The schools are horrible. Here is the make up:

Ethnicity Number of Students Percent
African American 46,948 29.6%
Hispanic 101,997 64.2%
White 8,004 5.0%
Native American 379 0.2%
Asian/Pacific Islander 1,486 0.9%

Note that there are more than 5% white people in Dallas. No one that can scrape together the dough for private school will send their kids to that hellhole.

These illegal teachers are teaching to illegal students and no one cares.

We just re-elected a completely incompetent woman as sheriff again because she had a “D” after her Hispanic last name. The man running against her was vastly superior and backed by all of law enforcement.

I was just involved in a battle to rename the key street in a multi-billion dollar new riverfront developement. All of the white people wanted it to be named Riverfront Blvd (get it? something to do with the river project? something inclusive to all of Dallas’ citizens) All the hispanics wanted it to be Cesar Chavez Blvd. I am a property owner there and thankfully we dodged the bullet.

When people like myself complain on HotAir about immigration it isn’t just whining. Life is slowly becoming unbearable here and it is coming to a city near you soon. Although, not probably for you personally since you are in Alaska you lucky dog!

How much fun would that be?

So what part of illegal don’t they understand?
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Social Security fraud is a felony, not a policy disagreement.

And people should be going to jail!

Their silence arguably makes them accessories to the crime.

Exactly. Off to jail with them too!

Any Texans wanna comment on what the schools are doing?

I am a retired teacher. There is not enough money that would entice me to teach in Dallas. Dallas is surrounded by good school districts that do not have the problems that Dallas has. They are run by administrators and principals that are not bound to affirmative action and community organizing mentality. Discipline in the schools is maintained with zero tolerance rules for gang activity and disruptive behaviors. The schools are clean and clear of graffiti. Teachers are formally evaluated annually to insure that they are teaching in a professional and effective manner. Certification of teachers is taken seriously.
What goes on in DISD never surprises me. They have little in common with the schools that surround them. Disapline is a joke and dffective teaching is just not possible.Its affirmative action and community organizing at its worse, and I fear what we have to look forward to on a national scale.
DISD laying off hundreds of teachers to make up for the financial incompetence of the administrators doesn’t surprise me. It doesn’t surprise me that there were no administrators being laid off. A few administrators would not have been missed. Firing teachers means increases in class size for those that are left. The result is not getting more for the dollar. As a rule of thumb, elementary classrooms with more than 18 students have an increase in discipline that doubles with each student above that number. For high school it is each student above 25. It does not take a lot of additional students to reduce the amount of teaching possible, even with the best teachers, to an unacceptable level or as we often say, until we are babysitting. That is with good students. Consider DISD where misbehaviors and gang activity is often ignored and the administrators are incompetent. It was not good to start with, and now it will be worse.

As for the Texas Education Administration getting involved; don’t count on it. It is no better than DISD, with unqualified people in positions that they have no experience in. Many have not been in a classroom since they graduated from high school, but they think their liberal ideas are better than what works. If one of them does something that normally would result in firing, they are reassigned as a principal in a good school district. I endured one of those principals for a year. At the end he was just showing up and sitting behind his desk. The next year he was quietly reassigned to another school as an assistant principal where he was not going to do any harm. Had he been a teacher, he would not have finished he school year.

Since 2004 the Dallas Independent School District has been knowingly using fraudulent Social Security Numbers to import illegal alien teachers to teach bilingual education in it’s school. Shocking I know, that pro-illegal alien education administratio…

Put them in jail for a long time. Then CLOSE THE F*CKING BORDER!

marklmail on November 14, 2008 at 2:44 PM

Ding Ding Ding – I wondered how long it would take before an actual statement about the border being closed would surface. (laugh)

So basically, if you were born here you have to qualify. If you weren’t born here, you automatically qualify. I don’t see how they can get away with that.

crosspatch on November 14, 2008 at 2:13 PM

Same as “in state tuition” sadly. People need to look at Kalifornia’s budget deficit and wake the hell up!

You know, it is all fun and games until somebody loses a country!

Laws in this country now are only enforced against some of us.

And hey, what’s wrong with Texas taxpayers having their tax dollars used to pay Mexican teachers to teach Mexican children in Spanish? It’s their country, isn’t it? — Well maybe not yet, but at the rate we’re going, it soon will be.