Houston ISD Superintendent Mile Miles faced a barrage of complaints at a public meeting, with parents and teachers expressing concerns about the dismantling of libraries, changes to dual language programs, and a hostile work environment. The meeting lasted late into the night, with some attendees ordering pizza to sustain themselves.
The attack of the children. That’s how it started Thursday night and it was like watching a sci-fi horror film when some cute little alien buggers suddenly bare their teeth and try to take a chomp out of the human.
"My name is Enrique and I am in the fifth grade. Please fire Superintendent Miles. Not one decision he has made has been good. He is too focused on test scores but he has never done anything effective about them. You can't magically learn by taking the same test over and over again. We need to actually do something about the problem. Maybe one reason for the failure is the low budget for most schools. Giving them 12 percent less would really do something. Something bad.
Designating Wharton and Helms"special and unique schools" enabling the district to avoid installing an English-only Pre-K in them initially sounded like a bright idea for all, satisfying the demands of parents to keep the Spanish-English dual language programs at those schools. Problem is, as a subsection of parents explained, they'd bought homes in the zoned areas around these schools and their children would no longer be granted automatic admission based on where they lived.
"Hi, my name is Nova and I practically grew up in the school library. April is school library month so let's celebrate by not removing certified librarians from HISD schools. Mike Miles' new compensation plan does not include librarians at all," she said."Board members, some of you have children, some are even HISD parents. Would you want your children to go to a school without access to books?Student Ashlyn Morton challenged Miles and the Board.
Students and parents also criticized the reduction in stipends paid to arts and debate coaches, the fact that in HISD teachers of the arts including theater will be paid"less than a first year teacher" as one speaker put it and the way teachers are not accorded the respect they deserve by the administration, according to teachers, parents and students.
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