11/04/04  DISD vs WHISD

Matthew Barnebey is obviously a disgruntled person connected to Pershing Elementary School.  It is too bad that clouds the big picture. The big issues, rising test scores, ending the deseg order, the largest bond program in history, should be the focus of a school district with over 165,000 students.

If Dr. Moses could not move DISD to the next level, blame that on the Board of Education.  They would not let him.  Their obstruction made it a great time for him to exit. 

For example, did Dr. Moses want to make a more accountable teaching staff?  Yes.  Could the Board fade the heat of the teacher organizations? No.  Dr. Moses needed 5 votes for a slightly stiffer evaluation tool, but he only had the support of 4 board members.  The other 5 were cowards.  To top it off, among the 5 cowards are 4 minority board members. Obviously, minority children are most directly influenced by poor teaching.  Go figure.

Other progressive offerings from Dr. Moses and his staff were met with the same negativity from the 5 cowards.

As with anything, Dr. Moses kept the DISD's leadership and the DISD's Board afloat.  I know because I was there.  Dr. Moses' presence, at least, caused the weak links to try.  I know why Dr. Moses was "tired."  The weak links on the Board have grown in number since Dr. Moses' arrival.  Without his presence, expect the weak links to infect the others. 

Remember, one weak link named a press box at the new Jesse Owens Stadium after himself and there were not 5 board members with enough courage to say how self-serving that was.  You did not know about "Mr. Press Box," Hollis Brashear?

By the way, Dr. Moses DID disclose everything regarding his relationship with Bracewell Patterson, verbally and in a memo.  We were told of it at his hiring.  The ones who "do not recall" are the same cowards who "wimped out on stiffer teacher accountability.