He provides more evidence in favor of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory
I’m just surprised he didn’t yell “SHITCOCK”
Liberty, patriotism, and civilization are on their knees before the men of the South, and with clasped hands and straining eyes are begging them to become Christians.
Yes, let’s erase this man from history.
Oh, and for a magnificent display of eloquence and maturity, see how the woman leading the charge spoke to some young children questioning the decision.
Soooo…not naming schools after someone is erasing them from history? Interesting theory.
Where’s the “like” button?
Not specifically. But generally speaking, you make an idiot out of yourself as many as six times before breakfast.
ETA: Outside of political discussions, Clothy, I have no problem with you. It’s just your insistence that liberals/Democrats are worse than Hitler and Satan having a three-way with Pol Pot, even when you’ve been shown otherwise. It SEEMS like you won’t listen or be willing to consider a different perspective on things.
Did I miss what the enormous taxpayer bill is supposed to be for stuff like putting up different signs and getting new athletic uniforms? I’d be surprised if it wasn’t more than a tiny fraction of the overall budget.
Good to see HISD take this action, given the slow and painful process of integrating the Houston public schools after the Brown decision (by contrast, other public facilities in the city were integrated virtually overnight, as well as peacefully).
You’d be surprised what uniforms can run even for something simple like track/cross country. Easily 75-100 per athlete.
HISD seems to have issues bigger than names of schools.
I think that’s kind of Clothy’s point. Why are they spending money on what amounts to feel-good changes with no ***real *** impact, when the district has so many other issues that are more pressing?
And FTR, all that crap in running coach’s post isn’t Houston ISD stuff; it’s all rich, suburban districts that are extremely well funded that are doing that stuff. HISD is none of those things- it’s primarily urban and poor. Criticizing HISD for the Katy, Allen or McKinney stadiums or about Ft. Worth technology is about as idiotic as criticizing Massachusetts lawmakers for something that was done in Georgia. They’re not even particularly close to Houston; Katy’s the closest, and that’s only near a far westward spur of HISD- most of the district is like 10 miles from Katy. McKinney and Allen are like 300 miles away north of Dallas. Fort Worth is equally far, and west of Dallas.
Also… this isn’t chump change. HISD estimates a quarter of a million dollars per school to rename them, which at 7 schools, totals 1.75 million dollars.
How many free lunches, textbooks, computers, iPads, teacher salaries, general maintenance items or other stuff could that be used for?
None. Isn’t that all stuff the PC crowd wants and is therefore bad?
This is Texas, everything they know, they learned from a Bible and a football coach.
Where’s the pitting for theouverruns on $2 billion construction? or the violations alleged to have taken place?
So he’s just stupid then?
HISD budget $1,864,134,651
Seems like the cost of changing a few school names is pretty minuscule.
How many of your own personal tax dollars do you believe were wasted on this initiative? An approximation will do.
Note: if it’s considerably less than a dollar, as I suspect it is, I’m afraid a pat on the head and a muttered “there, there” is about all the sympathy I can muster.
Damn, I like her. Wish more people like that held office.
It’s also spread across 283 schools and 213,000 students.
The point isn’t so much that it’s not a small percentage of the district’s budget, but that in absolute terms, a LOT of money being spent for something that’s neither necessary nor particularly beneficial in educational terms.
I mean, how does this help students learn, have better test scores, get into college, get a better career, stay in school, etc…?
The answer is that it doesn’t. It may make them less slightly annoyed when they happen to think about the genesis of their school’s name, but otherwise it doesn’t do a damn thing that’s useful within the context of a school district.
It would be like the Army choosing to rename every base or installation named after a Confederate general. What does that do to help them fight wars? Not a damn thing.
I’d say it has the potential to help them learn a fair bit about the Civil War, racism, politics and ethics, wouldn’t you?
Of course, not changing the names would also be educational, in a way. It would really get the message across that the school district cares more about money than it does about the public shame of officially honoring people who fought a war for the perpetuation of human slavery.
I noticed that nobody seems to have anything to say about the analogy with protests against streets in Quebec named after prominent Nazis that I posted about back in post #4. No dismay or disapproval about the proposed waste of taxpayer money in that case, I gather?
I’ll give it a go… Doesn’t the province have better things to care about? I mean, how are they going to maintain their socialized medicine and their separatist politics if they’re spending 99% of their budget on street names? Somebody think of the enfants!
THANK YOU!!!
Finally, somebody gets it.