Farmers Branch Mayor Tim O’Hare is no stranger to making waves – after all, he headed up an effort to pass an immigration ordinance that has had the city in court defending it since it was passed in 2008.
Now, he wants the city to examine whether it’s time for Farmers Branch to separate from the Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD and form its own district. Part of his beef seems to stem from the local chapter of LULAC and its mentoring program designed to reduce the drop out rate. He says having a high school within city limits – one with the all-important Traditional American Values – will raise property values in the city, too. He says real estate agents find it difficult to sell a house in Farmers Branch because of the way the current district is run. Maybe all of that is true, but if I were mayor, and I wanted to make my case, I’d have some hard numbers to back up those statements.
And what’s more interesting is that C-FB ISD board president Lynn Chaffin disagrees with O’Hare, saying the creation of two smaller districts would not be in the best interest of the students, and could actually make Farmers Branch schools more Hispanic. Plus, it costs lots of money to create a new school district and build a new high school.
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Is this the same guy who advocates privatizing the city’s library because the costs are so high? He has hijacked his city to pursue his zenophobic agenda at this city’s expense.
Yep, Tim is a right-wing zealot who’d probably secede from Rick Perry’s Texas because it’s too liberal. Are they still paying to defend that stupid immigration ordinance the everyone told them would cost a fortune in legal fees?
And now he wants to create his own school system? Well, he wants to use the taxpayers’ money to break up a school district that’s been a bright light in north Texas for how you run a diverse system.
Of course, that’s the problem. In Tim O’Hare’s America there won’t be any diversity.
What a ma-roon.
what’s zenophobic?
I cannot like Tim O’Hare for much….. but as a resident of FB, I have been deeply concerned that the CFBISD has torn down neighborhood elementary schools to build warehouses for children and it has done a disservice to all children. Wish this issue had a better and more creditable messenger but even Tim O’Hare can get an issue right once in awhile.
There is no doubt that FB as well as the rest of Texas has an illegal immigration problem. There is also no doubt in my eyes that LULAC should not be in the high schools mentoring children. Not because they are a hispanic organization but because they are a political organization and our children should not be involved in that.
However, to make the comments about the school district and the schools with in the city of FB is wrong headed, disrepestful to the teachers that teach in the city, and pits the city against the educators and vice versa. Rather than finding a logical solution to the problem the mayor uses the media as a platform for sensationalism and to gain publicity. We all know that FB breaking off from CFBISD will never happen nor is it something that ever should happen.
Traditional Values? I personally am not a fan of the word “diversity” in the way that it is used in today’s political climate. However, to say that the city of FB could promote “Traditional American Values” by breaking off? So CFBISD’s support of Veteran’s Day ceremonies, food drives, reading programs, mentoring programs, still using the word Christmas, and sponsoring “Kasie’s Run” each year is NOT promoting traditional American values?
To make it clear I am not a liberal,I am a conservative man who loves Rondald Reagan, believe our immigration laws are to lax and that school vouchers should be allowed. However, Mr. Ohare I do not believe in using our children, teachers and it’s schools as a political football to make a point. LULAC in schools is not acceptable to me but find a better more mature way to make that point.
Ask youself this: Which is more important making a political statement or educationg our children in a way that can ensure the future of this great Union? I know what my answer is, whats yours?
Sincerely,
“To the defense”
oops. Xenophobic.
Our FB mayor has become a “little Napoleon.”
The Mayor seems to think he can create his own little kingdom by invading our bordering city with his half-baked ideas and strongarming the FB City Council with his latest tirade. It’s clear to me he has packed with his own yes men on the Council by scaring the residents with constant harping on “illegal” immigrants demagoguery to get us to the polls. Well, I for one now see his schemes for what they are and will have no more of it. It’s time the mayor and his cronies leave town. When’s the next election?