By I GIVE UP

Aug 22, 2008 11:06 PM | Link to this

WHAT'S THE POINT.LET THE KIDS STAY WHERE THEY'RE COMFORTABLE.THE GIRLS ARE GOING TO END UP PREGNANT AND ON WELFARE,WITH FOOD STAMPS AND FREE HOUSING AND FREE MEDICAL.WHY GET AN EDUCATION?THE BOYS WILL BE ON THE STREETS SELLING DRUGS TO SUPPORT THEIR HABITS NOT THEIR BABIES. LEAVE THEM ALONE.LET THEM STAY WHERE THEY FEEL MORE AT HOME.

By orbital

Aug 22, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this

Carole Keeton Rylander, Texas State Comptroller of Public Accounts, in a news release dated February 22, 2002, said she wanted to create a permanent safety net for all the school children of Texas in the future, and added that she will not see the children in McLennan County classrooms harmed by the action or inaction of their local appraisal district.

Vowing to protect the education of the school children of McLennan County, Rylander announced a plan that would allow the schools to write their budgets based on local property tax yearly values. McLennan County was identified as the most vivid--the most severe--challenge to the flawed Legislatively created system.

While I dislike the high Waco property tax, more than most, I am reminded that our initial neglect to local education is a major cause for our current plight. The harm to education caused by low property appraisal was equally applicable to all schools in the district, but was particularly significant to those schools with predominant at-risk students.

In attempting to treat G.L. Wiley closure as only a bottom-line issue, the WISD school board has collectively shown the moral turpitude of a fifty-pound rock.

The resentment expressed by many over NCAAP involvement will pale in comparison to the attention that will come when the rest of Texas learns that the very city and county, most responsible for property tax rise across the state, is now bailing out on the Wiley situation for cost reasons.

No doubt, there are many hard economic issues that WISD must deal with in the coming year, including school closures. It may be that in a year Wiley must still be closed. The state of Texas, in recognition of improvement, gave Wiley one more year. How can we, as a city, attempt to even contemplate doing less than state, no matter the cost? If Wiley is to fail, at least let us go down with some dignity and our boots on.

By EX - WISD EMPLOYEE

Aug 22, 2008 1:58 AM | Link to this

IT'S REALLY SAD TO READ JASON ATTAS COMMENTS ON LESTER GIBSON!!! OMG YOU MUST HAVE LIVED IN TEXAS ALL YOUR LIFE... YOU SPEAK LIKE A TRUE DOWN SOUTH RAISED INDIVIDUAL. THANKING GOD I WAS BORN TWO BI-RACIAL PARENTS WHO GROW UP IN TEXAS. EDUCATED BY 2 WHITE GRANDPARENTS AND 2 BLACK GRANDPARENTS. MOST OF ALL I AM BLESSED THAT MY PARENTS TRAVELED THE WORLD OVER WHILE RAISING MY SIBLINGS AND MYSELF. TRUTH BE TOLD BY ANY NATIONALITY THAT HAS COME TO WACO OR TEXAS. THE SOUTH IN A WHOLE IS STILL LIVING IN SLAVERY. WITH SLAVERY THERE WILL ALWAYS BE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION.LETS JUST LEAVE THE RACIAL ISSUE ALONE. LETS THINK ABOUT HOW WE ARE HURTING OUR FUTURE'S WHEN WE BECOME ELDERLY BY ALL OF THE MADNESS WE CREATE FIGHTING ABOUT SIMPLE MINDED ISSUE'S. COME ON LOOK AT THE REAL PICTURE WE ADULTS ARE THE REASON WE HAVE ISSUE WITH OUR BABIES HAVING A POSITIVE LIFE AHEAD OF THEM. THESE PRECIOUS BABIES ARE FROM GOD AND WE ARE ENTRUSTED TO RAISE AND GUIDE THEM IN THE RIGHT WAY. PERSONAL DIFFERENCE'S NEED TO BE HANDLED IN A BETTER WAY. IF WE HAVE TO EDUCATE OUR CHILDREN IN A FIELD SO BE IT JUST EDUCATE THE CHILDREN AS CHILDREN. LETS STOP TREATING THE CHILDREN AS ADULTS WHEN THEY GO TO SCHOOL. WHAT HAPPEN TO THE TEACHERS THAT COULD HANDLE THEIR STUDENTS WITH A SECURITY GUARD OR POLICE AROUND. LEAVE WILEY OPEN SO THESE BABIES CAN LEARN AND PARENTS CAN BE INVOLVED IN THE EDUCATION OF THE CHILDREN. MOVING THESE BABIES IS NOT GOING TO MAKE ANYTHING BETTER. FOR ONE HALF OF WISD TEACHERS ARE NONE CERTIFIED SO YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR AND BEING AN EX-STUDENT AND EMPLOYEE OF WISD I CAN TELL YOU WE GET WHAT THEY PAY FOR. HOW CAN YOU TEACH A CHILD WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW. WITH SIMPLE MINDED PEOPLE AND THOSE HAVING A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE(STUPID) INDIVIDUALS LEADING HOW CAN WE RISE ABOVE??? I PRAY FOR YOU THAT HAVE SINGLED OUT LESTER GIBSON HE IS NOT IN THIS BY HIS SELF SO IT MAKES YOU LOOK AND SOUND LIKE A FOOLISH INDIVIDUAL. TRY GETTING OUT OF WACO TO FIND OUT WHAT LIFE IS ABOUT!!! YOU NEED JESUS IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE. THE FOCUS IS KEEPING A SCHOOL OPEN AND WHATEVER HAS TO BE DONE TO KEEP IT OPEN SHOULD BE THE ONLY FOCUS. SAVE WILEY!!!

By equality across the board

Aug 21, 2008 11:26 PM | Link to this

Has anyone viewed the test results of all of the schools in Waco ISD? Specifically middle schools? From what I've heard and seen, they're not much better than Wiley's scores. Therefore, maybe the board should consider SHUTTING DOWN THEIR WHOLE DISTRICT!

By BoogerHook

Aug 21, 2008 11:24 PM | Link to this

Yes!
Come vote for Obama.
Then the whole nation can be like East Waco!
Hooray!
That's what I want!

By Obama Democrat

Aug 21, 2008 8:00 PM | Link to this

Barack Obama rally -- Monday nights 6:30 p.m. -- 34th and Bosque -- Democratic Headquarters. YOU are needed. Yes We Can!

By dee

Aug 21, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this

One of the 3%. I am AMERICAN because I was born in this Country. If am also African because I'm of African descent. I also have specks of white blood, because my forefathers didn't know how to keep their "you know what's" put up. Also, my Causcian ancestry doesn't go back as far as you might think. You are living proof why racism still exists. To refer to someone that is not Anglo-Saxon as animals is very racist! For people to continue to say that African Americans are playing the race card regarding the closure of this school, then turn around and post racial comments, says that racism is still practiced.

By Rodney King

Aug 21, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this

Can't we all just get along?

By Jason Attas

Aug 21, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

This is absurd. Lester Gibson is an idiot. He has been crying racial foul for decades. He's a one-trick pony that has nothing better to do with his life than deepen the racial divide in this town by always framing every issue as one of black and white, us against them.

It's not about race, you moron!

How can closing an "unacceptable" school to send those students somewhere where they actually have a chance at a better education be considered racist?!?!

Lester, have you been smoking some of your son's crack?

Wise up, East Waco. Lester is not doing you any favors.

By steve

Aug 21, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this

I find it odd in so many ways that here we are arguing the black card again because of school board closing a school that cant meet achievements in five yrs. It's not that the black card is being played now but, its amazing it took five yrs and a closing to find that card.It's time to stop and do whats right for our future leaders of our city. Wake up!!!!! ps its the same old dance with Lester Gibson he cant even treat the tax payers in the county evenly.On my road black gets the services.Maybe he will run for school board so we can have a comm.pct.2 again!