Comments on: WFAA Uses a Hammer to Smash a Fly

By: a concerned parent

a concerned parent — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:15:55 +0000

This is in response to the DMN’s article today, Sunday, April 20, 2008 regarding Jack Lowe.

Jack Lowe needs to go.

1. Who moves into Dallas from Highland Park to run for the DISD School Board? Jack Lowe did. Why – to line his pockets. Who else in their right mind would do this. He is not doing it for his children or grandchildren. You think he would let them attend the DISD?

2. Who runs for school board and then gets a brand new school named for his pappy. I have never heard of such a thing. If it would have happened at another time, who cares, but not while he is serving on the school board.

3. Lowe has appointed Craig Reynolds not once, but now twice to lead this who ha. This is a shame as Mr. Reynolds is benefiting off it also. Why else are these men involved and why are they pushing the bond package that does not benefit the entire district. They don’t give a dam. They just want a bond package and a way to line their pockets and all they see is $$$, they don’t see the students and they sure don’t give a dam about the teachers and their thoughts or concerns. Why does Reynolds get the job twice. Is there no other person in Dallas that would not have a conflict of interest to run the DISD Bond Program.

4. Why is no one running against Jack Lowe – it is not because people respect the job he had done or is doing. It is because of one thing $$$. That is no one had the money out there to beat Jack Lowe and his political machine for a job that does not pay the average citizen a cent — but for Jack Lowe that is not the case – he will walk away with millions.

Something to think about when voting for the next bond election. VOTE NO and by the way if you live in Jack Lowe’s district – just don’t vote for the Trustee because even though you can’t vote against him, you don’t have to give him a vote.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:36:20 +0000

Hammer to squash a fly….the drama continues….does anyone care about the wasted money at DISD? Does anyone know that one of Hinojosa’s secretaries stole $92,000.00?

By: Wildcat Parent

Wildcat Parent — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:08:43 +0000

There was a suicide across the street from Woodrow a couple of weeks ago. This guy was paranoid and often accused Woodrow students of laughing at him. One of Woodrow’s fabulous teachers would talk with him and assure him no students would bother him. The day he took his own life there was police all around. Did you see that on the news???? But you do read about nimRod Dreher “indepth” research about how racist Woodrow’s white parents can be.

By: PL

PL — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:26:19 +0000

The teacher that was interviewed for the ten o’clock news is no longer an employee of the district. Seems to me that she was just seeking her 15 minutes of fame!!!

By: Louisa Meyer

Louisa Meyer — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:09:21 +0000

Hammering on Dallas while Plano gets kid gloves:
Ask Brad to go to Plano’s Jasper H.S. and investigate standardized testing procedures. Ask why the principal still has his job. He was to secure the schools PSAT test booklets through December yet gave one to a test prep business in the preceding October:

Regarding securing the booklets until December, see page 5 of the Supervisor’s Manual: http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/counselors/psat/supervisorsManual.pdf

By: doug

doug — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:03:00 +0000

I’m with DA.

By: DA

DA — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:56:21 +0000

Actually, Tim, I believe Craig’s 6 p.m. version of the story included an interview with a teacher at the school who was not particularly happy with the incident. And, given how school administrators tend to frown on employees who openly comment to the media about negative incidents, I’m not at all surprised by the lack of response from other teachers. For you to interpret their silence as an indication that this is no big deal to them seems awfully naive.

By: Tim Rogers

Tim Rogers — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:43:01 +0000

DA, in fact, the info very well might be mine. Some of the docs had personal info of volunteers. That’d be yrs trly.

I’m not mad as hell. And I’m thinking none of the people involved are mad, either. You’ll notice that the only person Hawkins could get to express outrage was a random passerby. The woman’s sole credential as a source in this story was that she wandered in front of the camera. Hawkins had all this personal info that belongs to the teachers at Hexter. He says in his report that he called them. Apparently not a single teacher was mad enough to comment.

Hey, a mistake was made. But it didn’t merit the 10 o’clock news.

By: WWClay

WWClay — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:59:20 +0000

Meanwhile, over on the Beloblog, Belorod is recounting both the many anonymous emails he’s getting both underscoring one or more of the things he tried to suture together like Frankenstein’s monster in his recent disordered clusterf*ck of a Woodrow column and those congratulating him on starting the conversation with those same invisible friends.

Meanwhile, meanwhile…yes…Pope Benedict is emailing me right now to congratulate me for making this post.

Clearly, the high tech future of journalism is not in just reporting the news after the fact oldschool but in getting right out there in front of it.

By: Michael Davis

Michael Davis — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:53:14 +0000

Didn’t this happen around the corner at Hill MS not too long ago? Shred the documents already!